新概念英语3 第二单元（L21~40）课文挖空默写（含答案）

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 新概念英语3 第二单元（L21~40）课文挖空默写 Lesson 21 Daniel Mendoza Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago. In those days, boxers 1._____ for prize money. Because of this, they were known as 'prizefighters'. However, boxing was very crude, for there were no rules and a prizefighter could be 2. _____ during a match. One of the most colourful figures in boxing history was Daniel Mendoza, who was born in 1764. The use of gloves was not introduced until 1860, when the Marquis of Queensberry 3. _____ the first set of rules. Though he was technically a prizefighter, Mendoza did much to change crude prizefighting into a sport, for he 4. _____. In this day, Mendoza enjoyed 5. _____. He was adored by rich and poor alike. Mendoza 6. _____ after a boxing match when he was only fourteen years old. This 7. _____ of Richard Humphries who was then 8. _____ boxer in England. He offered to train Mendoza and his young pupil was quick to learn. In fa第一ct, Mendoza soon became so successful that Humphries 9. _____. The two men quarrelled bitterly and it was clear that the argument could only 10. _____. A match was held at Stilton, where both men fought for an hour. The public bet a great deal of money on Mendoza, but he was defeated. Mendoza met Humphries in the ring 11. _____ and he lost for a second time. It was not until his third match in 1790 that he finally beat Humphries and became 12. _____. Meanwhile, he founded a 13. _____ and even Lord Byron became one of his pupils. He earned 14. _____ and was paid as much as $100 for a single appearance. Despite this, he was so 15. _____ that he was always in debt. After he was defeated by a boxer called Gentleman Jackson, he was quickly forgotten. He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1836. Lesson 22 By heart Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end, In many ways, this is 1. _____ for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night. One would expect them to know their parts 2. _____ and never have 3. _____. Yet this is not always the case. A famous actor in a 4. _____ play was once cast in the 5. _____who had been 6. _____ in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that it should be written out 7. _____. One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had managed to learn the 8. _____ by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his 9. _____. Just then, the gaoler appeared with the precious letter in his bands. He entered the cell and presented the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual. It was sim ... ...