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这是从上面材料中截取的一段。空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

It was during the Christmas vacation and it was really really a cold winter. And the snow was really heavy. My friend, his name was Joe, I went to help him__1__ his little brother and I ‘d help pick up coal along the railroad track. One day, I went by to his house to get him and we wanted to play in the snow and he said you’ve __2__coal and what he did was he would walk along the track starting at that station. And when the engine was about to __3__the station, the fireman would throw a lot of coal and the boiler to try to get the engine going. We were walking along the track. All of the coal __4__in the snow and we couldn’t find very much in.

参考答案:

1,To unlace Joe's little brother's shoes.
2, take care of; go get; pull over; had fallen down