Kate and Dick were classmates. They got on well with each other and later 【小题1】 in love. After getting married, they found it 【小题2】 to make a living.

Finally, they decided to run a small 【小题3】 near the railway station. The restaurant often stayed open until after midnight, 【小题4】 people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.

At two o’clock one morning, a man was still sitting at 【小题5】 table in the restaurant. He was asleep. Kate wanted to go to bed. She looked at the table several 【小题6】, and each time the man was still there. Then, at last she went to her husband and said to him, “You’ve talked to that man three times, and he isn’t drinking any more. Why haven’t you sent him 【小题7】? After all, it’s so late.”

“Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away,” answered Dick 【小题8】 a smile. “You see, every time I 【小题9】 up the man, he asks for the bill, and when I bring 【小题10】 to him, he pays it. Then he goes back to sleep again.”

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was 【小题1】(tell) me about his experience as a young man. Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large 【小题2】(busy) company, 【小题3】 as a boy he used to 【小题4】 (work) in a small shop. It was his job to repair and in 1958 he bought 【小题5】 small workshop of his own. 【小题6】 his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two 【小题7】 (help). In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven 【小题8】 (hundred) and twenty-eight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door 【小题9】 (open) and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their 【小题10】 (grandson) bicycle!