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　　The angry woman stood on the station platform (站台). “The railway should 1 me 12 pounds,” she said to Harry Jenks, the man in the booking office(订票处). “My 2 was for May 22nd, and that night there was no 3 from Jersey (British island in the English Channel 英吉利海峡). My daughter and I had to 4 in a hotel. It cost me 12 pounds.”

　　Harry was 5 . He remembered selling the woman a 6 ticket. “Please come into the office, madam,” he said 7 . “I'll just check(检查) the Jersey 8 for May 22nd.”

　　The woman and her little girl 9 him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon found out. There was no ship 10 on May 22nd. How had he made such a 11 mistake? As he didn't know what to do, he 12 at the child. “You look sunburnt,” he said to her. “Did you have a 13 holiday in Jersey?”

　　“Yes,” she answered gladly, “the beach(海滩) was 14 . And I can swim too!”

　　“That's fine,” said Harry. “My little girl can't swim a bit yet. Of course, she's only three.”

　　“I'm four,” the child said 15 . “I'll soon be four and a half.”

　　Harry turned to the mother. “I 16 your ticket, madam,” he said. “But you didn't get one for your daughter, did you?”

　　“Er, well…” The woman looked at the child. “I 17 she hasn't started school yet. She's only four.”

　　“A four-year-old child must have a ticket, madam. A child's return ticket to Jersey costs… let me see… 13. 50 pounds. So if you want the railway to pay 12 pounds for your 18 , you will have to pay the railway 13. 50 pounds 19 ．The law (制度) is the law, but the fault(过错) was mine.”

　　The woman stood up, took the child's hand and 20 the office.

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I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.
One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.
Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.
【小题1】On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.