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I have just received a letter from my old school, 【小题1】(inform) me that my former head master, Mr Stuart Page, will be retiring next week. Pupils of the school, old and new, will be sending him a present to mark the occasion. All those 【小题2】have contributed towards the gift will sign their names in a large album which will 【小题3】(send) to the headmaster’s home. We shall all remember Mr Page for his 【小题4】(patient) and understanding and for the kindly encouragement he gave us when we went so 【小题5】(willingly) to school. A great many former pupils will be attending a farewell dinner in his honor next Thursday. 【小题6】is a curious coincidence(巧合)that the day before his retirement, Mr Page will have been teaching 【小题7】a total of forty years. After he has retired, he will devote himself to 【小题8】(garden). For him, this will be an 【小题9】(entire) new hobby. But this does not matter, for, as he has often remarked, one is never too old 【小题10】(learn).