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News plays a significant role in shaping people’s beliefs and opinions. False news has always been a problem in ___________. The following pieces of news are well-travelled legends proved to be not ___________.

Trying to keep warm in ___________ weather, a 50-year-old Cypriot (塞浦路斯人) huddled over his oil heaters. ___________ overturning it, he set himself on fire. ___________ in pain, he ran out and jumped into a nearby river, where he ___________ like a stone and drowned.

Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record (坐旗杆记录). By the time he came down, eight hours short of the 400-day record, his ___________ had gone bust (破产), his girlfriend had ___________ him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

In a hospital’s ICU, patients always died in the ___________ bed at about 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. This ____________ the doctors and some ____________ thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths ____________ around 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, so out of ____________, a worldwide team of experts gathered to ____________ the cause of the incidents.

The next Sunday morning, all the experts ____________ waited outside the ICU to see what would ____________. Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday ____________, entered the ICU and unplugged (拔出插头) the life support system. ____________, he could use the vacuum cleaner.

After being fact-checked, the above three pieces of news have been ____________ that they were almost entirely ____________.