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Ben was a boss. When he was young, he didn’t work hard. So he knew _____ about the world, and he was often laughed at in public and sometimes he got into trouble. So he ______ a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors could see them as soon as they went in. He often went to the parties and listened to________ other men said carefully. He hoped to make friends with them.
Once Ben was told that it was a famous professor’s birthday that day. He hurried there with his ______. He gave the professor (教授)some expensive presents and the old man ______ him very much. After dinner they began to talk ______ some famous books. He could hardly answer________ questions. The professor asked him the easiest one, “What was Shakespeare” “It was a _____ of drink,” answered Ben. “But people do not like it now. ” The professor had a smile and soon he stopped talking with Ben. On ______way home, Ben’s wife said, “You ______a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a kind of cake, like the Chinese mooncake.”