1 . One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I _______ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _______ he knew me. The man had a newspaper _______ in front of him, which he was _______ to read, but I could _______   that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my _______ the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the   _______ way in which the waiter and I _______ each other. He seemed even more _______ as time went on and it became ________ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the ________. When he came out, he paid his bill and ________ without another glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had ________. “Well,” he said, “That man was a detective. He ________ you here because he thought you were the man he was ________.” “What?” I said, showing my ________. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I ________ say he looked very much like you! Of course, ________ we know you, we told him that he had made a mistake”. “Well, it’s really ________ I came to a restaurant where I’m known.” I said. “________, I might have been in trouble.”

2 . The other day, my husband and I took the kids for dinner at a branch of Pizza Express. There was a very friendly lady _________ alone at the next table. When the time came for her to pay the _________, her bank card was declined. The waitress told her, in a very kind way, that there was a _________ but that she would call her manager for help. Seeing this, my husband _________ got up and told the waiting staff that we would pay for the lady's meal. _________, when the manager arrived, he explained to the lady that although she couldn't use her _________, there was no need to _________. Pizza Express authorizes(授权) the restaurant to _________ two free meals per month and on this _________, they would like to provide her with a free meal.

She was extremely grateful and apologetic that she had been __________ to pay. We were relieved that the lady had been __________ with dignity instead of being placed in a __________ position.

Then, the manager __________ our table. He said that, __________ we had shown such generosity, he would like to donate the second free meal that the restaurant was able to __________ to us! We were absolutely __________! I had never heard of any chain restaurant behaving in such a(n) __________ way. We were quite __________ with gratitude. I made sure that the lady was able to get home OK, and then we __________ the staff and left ourselves. I was really impressed by how the restaurant had treated this __________ case.