One day while Mr. King was working, he had a/an（）：his left leg was badly injured.

He（） for an IT company.

The weather was good except for an （） shower.

One afternoon Mrs. Green’s husband wanted to catch the 3:30 flight to London to have an important meeting. She was very surprised when he telephoned her at 5 o’clock and said that he was still at the airport.

What he said was too（）for me to understand.

The carrier was responsible for the damage to the licorice for he failed to（）.

35一Was he sorry for what he’d done?

About 150 years ago，a musician sat quietly at a concert in Vienna. He was playing his new symphony. He couldn‘t (11) that the audience were clapping wildly. He was deaf. He was Beethoven，one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.Beethoven wrote about 300 (12) of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces after he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But it is even worse for a musician than for (13) else. Think of not being able to hear the music you have written!As a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father drank (14) .When the boy was only four，his father decided to make a musician (15) him. Hour after hour he had to practice (16) the violin. He learned so fast that he was able to make a concert tour when he was eleven. When he was seventeen，the great Mozart praised him. After he studied with Haydn. Beethoven was writing a great deal of music (17) .Beethoven had an ugly face and a bad temper. He was often invited (18) the homes of wealthy people. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him become deaf when he was (19) thirty-one.Beethoven wrote long pieces and short ones，gentle ones and (20) ones.

William Rufus(William II)was killed by an arrow when he was hunting in（）in August l100.

Was it because he was ill _____ he asked for leave?

When Tim ______ why he was late for school, he just kept silent.

He wrote lots of books, and he also liked ______ . He was an actor.