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A brave maid

A woodenvasefrom 1._______Ming Dynasty at the 2._______（enter）to the reception hall amazed everyone.The artists 3._______（design）itin a rare style and selected valuable jewels to decorate it.People thought highly of 4._______（it）fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it.

The vase used to belong 5._______a former castle.But when the country was at war,the enemy troops exploded the castle.Debates on how the vase survived went on and on.In order to remove people’s 6._______（doubtful）,a team of no less than 20 people carried out an informal 7._______（investigate）. The evidences they found showed that a maid took the vase apart and asked a sailor 8._______

（sink）it in a local well.She never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies 9._______were in search of treasures.

It is worth 10._______(give)this brave maid a fortune in return.

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勇敢的女仆

接待大廳入口處的明朝木制花瓶使每個(gè)人都驚奇不已。藝術(shù)家以一種罕有的風(fēng)格設(shè)計(jì)它，并挑選了貴重的珠寶裝飾它。人們高度贊賞它那蜂蜜般的奇特顏色，還有上面繪制的繪畫(huà)。

這個(gè)花瓶曾經(jīng)屬于一座從前的城堡，但在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)期間，敵人的軍隊(duì)炸毀了城堡，于是，關(guān)于這個(gè)花瓶是如何幸存下來(lái)的爭(zhēng)論就一直在持續(xù)著。為了解開(kāi)人們的疑問(wèn)，一個(gè)不少于20人的調(diào)查隊(duì)開(kāi)展了一次非正式的調(diào)查。他們找到的證據(jù)表明，有個(gè)女仆把花瓶拆開(kāi)，然后讓一名水手把它沉到當(dāng)?shù)氐囊粋€(gè)水井里。她從來(lái)沒(méi)有泄露這個(gè)秘密，即使是在搜尋財(cái)寶的敵人殘酷的審訊下。

這位女仆真值得被給予一大筆錢(qián)作為對(duì)她的回報(bào)。

晨背點(diǎn)津

好詞靚句

1.think highly of看重；器重

2.used to do過(guò)去常常做……（而現(xiàn)在不）

3.belong to屬于……

4.be at war處于交戰(zhàn)狀態(tài)

5.less than少于

6.take apart拆開(kāi)

7.in search of尋找

8.be worth（doing） 值得……

9.in return作為報(bào)答；回報(bào)