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Some plays achieve so much success that they run for years on end. In many ways, this is __1__for
the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same __2__night after night.One would __3__
them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to falter(结巴). Yet the thing is not always the
case.
A famous actor in a __4__successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat(贵族)who had
been imprisoned in Bastille for twenty years.In the last act, a gaoler(监狱长, 看守)would always come
on to the stage with a letter which he could hand to the prisoner.Even though the noble was expected to
read the letter at each __5__, he always insisted that it should be written out in full.
One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if, after so many performances,
he had managed to learn the __6__of the letter by heart.The curtain went up on the final act of the play
and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell.Just then, the gaoler __7__with the
precious letter in his hands.He entered the __8__and presented the letter to the aristocrat.But the copy
he gave him had not been written out in __9__as usual.It was simply a blank sheet of paper.The gaoler
looked on eagerly, __10__to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines.The noble stared at the
blank sheet of paper for a few seconds.Then, squinting(眯着眼看)his eyes, he said, "The light is __11__.
Read the letter to me."And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler.__12__that he could not
remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied, "The light is indeed dim, sir.I must get my __13__."With this, he hurried off the stage.Much to the aristocrat's __14__, the gaoler returned a few moments
later with a pair of glasses and the __15__copy of the letter which he proceeded to read to the prisoner.

(     )1. A. fortunate   (     )2. A. lines       (     )3. A. want       (     )4. A. highly     (     )5. A. play       (     )6. A. pages       (     )7. A. turned up   (     )8. A. room       (     )9. A. doubt       (     )10. A. wondered   (     )11. A. bright     (     )12. A. Imagining (     )13. A. glasses   (     )14. A. surprise   (     )15. A. usual

B. unfortunate   B. words         B. ask           B. high         B. performance   B. joke         B. turned out   B. cell         B. turn         B. surprised     B. dim           B. Believing     B. lines         B. satisfaction B. old

C. happy     C. plays     C. expect   C. poorly   C. role     C. lines     C. came out C. stage     C. order     C. anxious   C. dark     C. Seeing   C. light     C. anger     C. unusual

D. unhappy         D. roles           D. wish           D. poor           D. case           D. contents       D. picked up       D. office         D. full           D. afraid         D. out             D. Finding         D. lettes         D. amusement       D. new

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