第二节：语法结构（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）      
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填在答题卷标号为31~40的相应位置上。
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu launched an attack against the State of Yue. The king of Wu was seriously wounded and soon died. ____31____ son Fu Chai became the new king. Fu was determined to revenge(复仇). He drilled his army strictly __32______ it was a perfect fighting force. Three years later, he led his army ____33____ the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian.
In order to avenge(复仇) his father’s _34____(die), Fu let him live in a shabby stone house by his father’s tomb and ordered him to raise horses for him. Gou pretended to be loyal to Fu _35____ he never forgot his humiliation (羞辱). Many years later, he __36____ (set) free. Gou secretly accumulated a military force after he went back to his own state. In order to make himself tougher he slept on firewood and ate a gall-bladder(苦胆) __37____ having dinner and going to bed every night. At the same time he administered his state carefully, _38_______ (develop) agriculture and educating the people. After a few years, his country became strong. Then Gou seized a favorable opportunity to wipe off the State of Wu.
Later, people use it to describe one _39_______ endures(忍受) self-imposed(自愿接受的) hardships to _40__________ (strong) one’s resolve(决心) to realize one’s ambition.