阅读下列短文，根据文章大意用所给单词的适当形式填空(未提供单词的，限填一词)，使文章意思完整、正确。 Ten years ago, when Mr Ted was sixty, he retired (退休). He left the city and returned to his home village. There he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (buy) a small field and planted a lot of orange trees in it. He took good care {#blank#}2{#/blank#} them and that year they had a lot of fruit. The old man was very happy.
But at the same time Mr Ted was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (worry). Nearly every night someone broke into his garden and took away lots of his oranges. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he decided to try his best to catch the thief himself. Last night, when it was dark, Mr Ted hid {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (he) in a corner of his garden and carefully watched {#blank#}6{#/blank#} would come and steal his oranges. At midnight Mr Ted was so tired that he went to sleep. Suddenly some noise woke him up. The noise came from {#blank#}7{#/blank#} big tree. He went there quietly and saw a boy standing under the tree, with a bag full of oranges. At once he recognized (认出) it was Tom, one of his {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (neighbour) boys.
"How dare you do that, Tom?" the old man couldn't help {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (call) out. "I'll tell your father about it!"
But the little boy wasn't frightened. He looked up and shouted, "Come down quickly, Dad. Mr Ted has something {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (tell) you."
