The Oscars are held every March in the city of Los Angeles. Many of the     1    (big) celebrities in Hollywood attend this event, hoping to win an Oscar award. Since the first ceremony in 1929, when only fifteen awards were given out, the Oscars     2    (grow) in size and popularity. Now, more than fifty of the gold-plated     3    (statue) are made every year in the city of Chicago. They then are transported to Los Angeles for the awards show.

However, on March 8,2000, someone stole the fifty-five Oscar statues that     4    (make) for that year’s ceremony. Soon after, the trucking company responsible     5     transporting the statues offered a $ 50,000 reward for them.

A few days     6    (late), Willie Fulgear was looking for some boxes in a garbage can near his home in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles. Willie was moving out of his apartment and he needed boxes to pack his things in.     7    (search) through the can, he found some white boxes. He opened one of them and found an Oscar inside. He had the other boxes     8    (tear) open and got fifty-two Oscars, all in perfect condition. He     9    (immediate) called the police.

Finally Willie Fulgear received a $ 50,000 reward and the invitation to the Oscar ceremony. He didn’t receive     10     award for his honesty but he did go from liter to glitter (闪光) in just one week.