Pat was a faithful fan of Sherlock Holmes, a private detective (侦探) created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Every day, he tried to find a (n) _________ to solve. He had a great interest in the family safe (保险箱). He kept _________ what was inside it.

One day, Pat opened the safe secretly when his parents weren’t at home. To his _________, he found only a book of stamps inside. He didn’t know _________ it was locked in the safe. To him, it was just a collection of old Chinese stamps.

Where did it come from? Did it have any value? Pat’s head was _________ of questions, but he couldn’t find the answers. When his parents came back, Pat told them that he had opened the safe. His father didn’t shout at him. _________, he told Pat the story behind the stamps. A Canadian Father (神父) stayed in China from the early 1940s to the 1960s. He collected these stamps there. When he _________ to Canada, he gave them to his niece. The niece sold them to Pat’s father. Pat listened to his father carefully and he imagined how the Father _________ to collect all the stamps.

After that, _________ Pat looked at the stamps, he felt as if the Father was asking him to take them back to China. Guess what! Six years ____________, Pat held an exhibition (展览) of the stamps in China, in the name of the Father.

【推荐2】There was once a man and a woman who had been married for more than sixty years. The old woman had a ________, and she told her husband ________ to open it or ask her about it.

Days ________ the woman passed away(去世), she showed her husband the box. ________ there were two beautifully crocheted doilies(钩针编织的桌垫) and over $25,000.

“When we got married, my grandmother told me the secret(秘诀) of a happy marriage(婚姻) was to never ________.” said the woman. “She told me that if I ever ________ you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doily.”

The old man was too ________. Only two doilies were in the box. She was only angry with him ________ in all those years of living and loving. He was very happy.

“Sweetheart, that explains the doilies,” he said. “But what about the ________? Where did it come from?”

“Oh, that’s the money I made from selling the ________,” she said.

A few days later, the woman died.

【推荐3】It’s 12 o’clock. A young man goes into a fast food restaurant for ________. Many people are in the restaurant.

“Can I ________ you?” a waiter (服务员) asks.

“Yes, I’d like a ________ and some fish, please,” says the young man.

Would you like ________ to drink?” asks the waiter.

“Yes, a glass of ________,” the young man says.

“Do you want to take them away (把……带走)?”asks the waiter.

“Yes,” says the young man.

The young man ________ some money (钱) to the waiter for his lunch and the waiter puts the food into a bag. Then the young man goes away ________ the bag. In the office, the young man finds ________ money is in the bag. “Oh! It’s the money for my lunch,” says the young man. He goes ________ to the restaurant. He doesn’t want to get his lunch for ________. He is a kind young man.