Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 c

hoices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

There __56__ a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They __57__ in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed, the __58__ were shut and locked up. __59__, every morning __60__ shoes were found to be quote worn through as if they had been danced in all night. Nobody could __61__ how it happened, or __62__ the princesses had been.

So the king made it __63__ to all that if any person could discover the __64__ and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the __65__, he would have the __66__ he liked best to take as his wife, and would be king __67__ his death. But whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, would be __68__ to death.

A prince from a nearby country soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber （大房间） next __69__ the one where the princesses lay in their twelve __70__. There he was to sit and __71__ where they went to dance; and, in order __72__ nothing could happen without him hearing it, the door of his __73__ was left open. But the prince soon went to sleep; and when he __74__ in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, __75__the soles of their shoes were full of holes.

56.

A was

B were

C is

D are