Today I 【小题1】(stop) by a lady who asked me if I could help her find her mobile phone, which she had lost. She later told me that she had turned 80 this year. I did my best, 【小题2】(search) in and around her car and her bags. I also tried calling her phone. Unfortunately, we could not find it. I kept her company until she 【小题3】(calm) down and let her use my phone to call a friend. I felt a bit like I let her down, 【小题4】 I hope I was able to provide a little comfort and company during her stressful time.

A fire completely destroyed my mobile home last year, just four months after I had paid it off! I had to rebuild it with what little I had saved. Because 【小题1】 I had would not be enough , I began to rent out my RV (娱乐车) as a way to help ends meet. I was sure it was 【小题2】 (attract) to some people. One woman 【小题3】 had booked a week in the RV called and told me that her husband had just lost his job. He felt that they should cancel the trip as an amusement.

The short story “After Twenty Years” is set in New York on a cold, dark night. Everything was very quiet. A police officer on duty found a man with a scar on his face outside a shop, and they started to have【小题1】 chat. The man talked about his best friend and the 【小题2】 (fine) chap, Jimmy Wells. 

One night twenty years ago, they 【小题3】(dine) at “Big Joe” Brady’s. They grew up together in New York and got on very well.【小题4】 (make) his fortune, he was to start for the West 【小题5】 Jimmy Wells stayed in New York.【小题6】 was on that night that they agreed on the meeting date and place after twenty years, whatever their conditions might be or from what 【小题7】(distant) they might have to come. At first, they corresponded 【小题8】 each other for a year or two, but then they lost track of each other. However, he thought 【小题9】(confident) that Jimmy Wells would turn up as promised, so he came a thousand 【小题10】(mile) to meet him.