【推荐1】Itzhak Perlman, a famous violinist, came on stage to give a concert. He was stricken with polio（小儿麻痹症）as a child, so getting on stage is no small     1     (achieve).

The audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage     2     his chair and began his play. But this time,     3     went wrong. Just as he finished the first part, one of the strings on his violin     4    (break). We thought that he would have to stop the concert. But he didn’t.     5    , he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again.

    6     (power) and pure, his performance attracted all the attention.

Of course, anyone believes     7     impossible to play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused     8     (know) that.

When he finished, people rose and cheered.

    9     (smile), he wiped the sweat and said, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with     10     you have left.”

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Our house was across the street from a large hospital, so we rented some of our spare rooms to     1     (patient). One evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened     2     (see) what was going on. A truly sick-looking man was just standing at my door. His face was terribly red, yet his voice was pleasant. He told me that he had been hunting for a spare room since noon, but no one     3     give him one.

For a moment, I wanted to refuse, but his next words convinced me, “I’ll sleep in this rocking chair by the gate. My bus     4     (leave) early in the morning.”

The old man had a huge heart inside his tiny body. He told me that he was earning his living by     5     (fish) to support his daughter, his daughter’s 5 children and her disabled husband. He didn’t complain (抱怨) while telling me his story. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease,     6     was seemingly a form of skin cancer.

Early the next morning, he asked me, “Can I come back again and stay here the next time I need     7     (treat)?” I told him he was welcome to come again. On his next trip,     8     a gift, he brought two big fish. In the years when he stayed with us, there was never a time when he didn’t bring us any gifts like these.

My neighbor     9     (warn) me that I could lose renters by putting up the old man after he left the first morning. Perhaps we lost renters once or twice. But if they had known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family will always be     10     (thank)to have known him. From him, we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude.

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A tramp lay down and slept in a park. He had been sleeping for about 5 minutes the     1     a young couple walked by. The couple stopped, woke the tramp up, and asked him, “Excuse me. Do you know what the time is?” The tramp     2    (reply), “I’m sorry—I don’t have a watch, so I don’t know the time.” The couple apologized for waking him up and then walked away.

The tramp lay down again, and after a few minutes went back to sleep. Just then, a woman,     3     was out walking her dog, shook the tramp’s shoulder until he woke up again. The woman said, “I’m sorry to trouble you, but I’m afraid I’ve lost my watch—do you happen     4    (know) the time?” The tramp was a little annoyed at     5    (wake) up again, but he     6    (polite) told the woman that he didn’t have a watch and didn’t know the time.

After the woman had left, the tramp came up with     7     idea. He opened the bag that contained all his     8    (belong) and got out a pen, a piece of paper and a piece of string.     9     the paper, he wrote down, “I do not have a watch. I do not know the time.” He then hung the paper round his neck and finally dropped off again.

About 15 minutes later, a policeman who was walking through the park noticed the tramp asleep on the bench, and the sign around     10    (he) neck. He then woke the tramp up and said, “I read your sign. I thought you’d like to know that it’s 2:30 pm.”

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iPhone 7 being investigated after surfer claims it set his car on fire

Apple is investigating a report from an Australian man who claimed his iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed his car, the company said on Friday.

Surfer Mat Jones told Channel 7 News that he     1     ( go ) into water off a New South Wales beach and left his new iPhone 7 bought last week,     2     ( wrap) in a pair of trousers in his car on the beach.

He said that     3     he returned from the water he saw smoke rising from the car. “As I looked into my car，I could not see inside the car, like all the windows were just black.”

A video footage(影像) taken from another phone showed the front seats, dashboard and stick melted and charred, and Jones said that he felt “pretty much like a big heat wave just came out of the car”.

Eventually the surfer was able to remove     4     was left of his clothes. “Ash was just coming from inside the pants. Once the pants were unwrapped, the phone was just melting inside.”

Jones said that he had not dropped the phone or physically damaged it,     5     happened to a Sydney man who fell off his bike and suffered burns from an iPhone. He also said that he had not used     6     non-Apple charging device.

A spokeswoman for Apple said the company was investigating the complaint. “We’re in touch with the customer and we’re looking into it,” she said.

Lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries     7     burst into flames because of physical damage or overheating. Apple’s     8    ( big )smartphone competitor, Samsung, has begun an international recall of 2.5m Galaxy Note 7 devices after more than 100 devices started smoking, sparking or caught fire—in some cases     9     ( cause ) fire damage and injury.

Several other companies, including Hewlett Packard, Tesla and the makers of so-called “hoverboards”, have also experienced problems     10     their lithium-ion batteries, though the vast majority work without problems.

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A great fire has destroyed the medieval（中世纪的）cathedral(大教堂)of Notre-Dame in Paris, one of France's    1    (famous) landmarks. Thousands of people gathered in the streets around the cathedral, watching the flames in silence,some of    2    could be seen crying. Watching such a symbol of French culture burnt and its spire（尖项）destroyed is extremely    3    (shock) to any French person.

No other site represents France like Notre-Dame, which    4    (receive) almost 13 million visitors each year, more than the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower, is a little more than a century old    5    Notre-Dame has stood tall above Paris    6    1200s. It has given its name to one of the country’s literal    7    (masterpiece). Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame（《钟楼怪人》）is known    8    me French simply as Notre-Dame de Paris（《巴黎圣母院》）．

The three large rose windows    9    (destroy) by the fire.    10    (fortunate),the main structure, including the two bell towers, has been saved. Also, the most valuable cultural relics have survived the fire. The last time the cathedral suffered major damage was during the French Revolution. It survived two world wars largely in good condition.

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A high school senior student Liu Yu from Chengdu was beaten to the point of a bone fracture for trying to stop queue-jumping.

On Oct. 19, Liu went to a fast food restaurant on the     1    ( two) floor of Wanda Plaza in Qingyang District. When Liu was queuing, a woman with a child jumped in front of him without asking. “Please stay in line. First come, first     2    ( serve) ." Liu said, according to    3    ( video). The woman then replied she was in a hurry to pay before her cellphone's power ran out.

"It doesn't matter to me     4     your phone is out of power," Liu replied. After Liu said this, a man beside     5     woman attacked Liu, and the youth didn't fight back. Staff in the shop tried to stop the man, and the whole incident was recorded by the shop's video camera.

On the night of Oct. 23, the man     6     beat Liu was arrested by local police. He and his family confessed, and the case is now     7     further investigation.

This piece of news     8    ( start) a heated discussion online so far, with the relevant topic being read 150 million times on Sina Weibo by Wednesday afternoon.

Some netizens say that it is easy to recover     9    ( physical) , but psychological trauma will be harder    10    ( heal).