Fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给出）

“Can’t hold a candle to” is a p 【小题1】   expression. It is from the time before electricity, when people used candles for light. Someone who lived in a big house would have a servant light his way by holding a candle. The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant. Now, it means such a person cannot compare or compete. In the following song, singer Dolly Parton tells her new love that her old flames, her old lovers, cannot compare with him.

A 【小题2】  expression is “hold your tongue”. It means to be still and not talk. “Hold your tongue” is not something you would tell a friend. But a parent or teacher might use the expression to quiet a noisy child.

“Hold out” is an expression one hears often in sports reports and labour news. It means to refuse to play or work. Professional football and baseball players hold out if their team refuses to pay them what they think they are worth. Members of labour unions（同盟）hold out and refuse to work until they get the work agreement they want.

The expression “hold up” has several different m 【小题3】  . One is a robbery. A man with a gun may say, “This is a hold up. Give me your money.” Another meaning is to delay. A driver late for work may tell his boss, “I was held up by heavy traffic.” Someone who was robbed on the way to work might say, “Sorry, boss, I was held up by a hold up.”

Still another meaning of the expression is for a story to be c【小题4】   true after an investigation（调查）. The same driver late for work could say, “My boss did not believe a hold up held me up. But the police confirmed（坚定的）what I said so my story held up.”

“Hold on” is another expression. Often it means wait or stop. As you leave for school, your brother may say, “Hold on, you forgot your book.”

Hold on is used to ask a telephone caller to wait and not h 【小题5】  up his telephone. If you call a library to ask for a book, the librarian might say, “Hold on w【小题6】  I look for it.”

Our final expression is “hold the line.” That means to keep a problem or situation from getting w 【小题7】 , to hold steady（稳定）. For example, the president may say he will hold the line on taxes. He means there will be no increase in taxes.