The following are two tricks you may find     1    (amuse).

Trick 1:

James’s father, who really loves his car, expects everyone     2    (admire) it all the time. Jame’s sister hates playing this game. So on one April Fool’s Day, she     3    (write) a note saying “Sorry, I didn’t see the car. I apologize     4    the damage. Please call me and I’ll give you my insurance number”, and put it on the car. After this, James and his sister hid behind a tree and watched their Dad,     5    went on going round and round the car,     6    (try) to find the damage. Even when they came from behind the tree laughing, their Dad still couldn’t stop looking at the car for he still wasn’t sure if the car was OK!

Trick 2:

Jack never stops playing practical jokes on others. And one day he played one on Mr. Simmons, his maths teacher. Mr. Simmons had to leave the room, leaving his laptop on his desk. In the absence of Mr. Simmons, Jack unplugged the mouse of the laptop     7     installed a wireless mouse on his computer, which was connected to a projector. When he came back, Jack started moving     8    wireless mouse on the palm of his hands, and he clicked on various     9    (application) on the computer. Mr Simmons was just sitting there, watching the screen and trying to move the cursor where he wanted it to go, but of course it didn’t work. It seemed he didn’t like not having an     10    (explain) for what was going on, so he got quite angry. But then when he found out, he couldn’t stop laughing.

Once upon a time, there was an old man, nearly blind and deaf,     1     lived with his only son. When he was at table, he often dropped some food on the table. His son and daughter-in-law did not like this. So they made him sit in a corner behind the stove. There he     2     (give) an old bowl with a little food in it.

One day his hands shook so much     3     he could not hold the bowl. It fell to the ground and broke to pieces. The daughter-in-law shouted at him     4     (angry), “What a careless old man you are!” His eyes were filled with     5       (tear), but he did not say anything. Then they     6     (buy) a cheap wooden bowl and gave a little food in it.

One day,     7     old man's little grandson was sting on the ground by him, trying to fit some pieces of wood together.

“What are you making a wooden trough (凹槽) for?” asked the old man.

“It is for Dad and Mum     8     (feed) from when I grow up,” answered the little boy.

His parents' jaws dropped. They felt very sorry and     9     (embarrass), and started to cry. Then they begged for a real     10     (forgive), saying to the old man “We are wrong. Please forgive us!”

In May 2001, I found a job in New York at the World Trade Centre. On September 11, 2001, I arrived at my building at around 8:30 a.m. I was about to go up    1    I decided to get a coffee first. I went to my favorite coffee place    2    though it was two blocks (街区) east from my office. As I was waiting in line with other office    3    (work), I heard a loud sound. Before I could join the others outside    4    (see) what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke    5    (rise) above the burning building. I    6    (feel) lucky to be alive. Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21, 2011 and realized that my alarm clock never went off. I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand    7    (take) off already. “This is the first holiday in a year, and now I’ve missed my plane.    8    bad luck!” I thought to    9    (me). The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquake in New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had unexpectedly turned out to be    10    good thing.