Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Some people believe that a Robin Hood (罗宾汉) is at work while others say that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donor 【小题1】 started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话).
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained € 10, 000 with a cutting from the Braunschweig Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who 【小题2】 (rob) of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous (匿名) envelopes, each containing € 10, 000, then 【小题3】 (arrive) at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least € 190, 000 【小题4】 (distribute). Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweig Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of € 500, inside 【小题5】 there was a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
“I 【小题6】 (drive) when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course of treatment their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society 【小题7】 everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing,” Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donor is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweig Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know.” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero for fear that discovery may stop the donations.