Ten years passed, and I found that he had

Ten years passed，and I found that he had__________．

The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he

Text 4 Humor, which ought to give rise to only the most light-hearted and ** feelings, can often stir up vehemence and animosity. Evidently it is dearer to us than we realize. Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humour. A man will admit to being a coward or a liar or a thief or a poor mechanic or a bad swimmer, but tell him he as a dreadful sense of humour and you might as well have slandered his mother. Even if he is civilized enough to pretend to make light of your statement, he will still secretly believe that he has not only a good sense of humour but are superior to most. He has, in other words, a completely blind spot on the subject. This is all the more surprising when you consider that not one man in ten million can give you any kind of intelligent answer as to what humour is or why he laughs.

The fact that it has become more onerous or more expensive for one party than he thought （）sufficient to bring about a frustration.

If he is a common carrier，he is absolutely responsible to the owner of the goods carried （）any loss or damage to them unless caused by an Act of God or the Queen’s enemies，or the inherent vice in the goods themselves，or the negligence of the owner of the goods，or a general average sacrifice.

Either he or I ______to the airport.

He claims that advertising today tends to portray women in traditional roles such as cooking or taking care of the baby.

（），he had to leave school.

By degrees the shutters were opened; the window-blinds were drawn up, and people began passing to and (1)____. Some few stopped to gaze at Oliver for a moment or two, or turned round to (2) st____ at him as they hurried by; but none relieved him, or troubled themselves to inquire how he came there. He had no heart to beg. And there he sat. He had been crouching on the step for some time, (3)____(wonder) at the great number of public-houses (every other house in Barnet was a tavern, large or small); gazing listlessly (4)____ the coaches as they passed through, and thinking how strange it seemed that they could do, with (5) e____, in a few hours, what it had taken him a whole week of courage and (6)____(determine) beyond his years to accomplish; when he was roused by observing that a boy, who had passed him carelessly some minutes before, had returned, and was now surveying him most (7)____(earnest) from the (8) o____ side of the way. He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver (9)____(raise) his head, and returned his steady look. Upon this, the boy crossed over, and, (10) w____ close up to Oliver, said, “Hello! My covey, what’s the row?”

As he had heart attack, he was told that he _____ continue the work.

After the cameraman had taken three or four photographs of the soldier ants, he found they had ______ all over his feet.