Lesson 22 By heart 熟记台词
一、【Text】课文
Some plays are so successful that they run for years 1 2 . In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are 3 to go on repeating the same 4 night 5 night. One would 6 them to know their parts 7 8 and never have cause to falter. Yet this is not always the 9 . A famous actor in a highly successful play was once 10 in the role of an aristocrat who had been 11 in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler 12 always come on to the stage with a letter 13 he would hand to the prisoner. 14 15 the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always 16 that it should be written out 17 18 . One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke 19 his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had 20 to learn the 21 of the letter by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone 22 bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler appeared 23 the precious letter in his hands. He entered the cell and 24 the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full 25 usual. It was simply a blank 26 of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly, 27 to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines. The noble stared 28 the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds. Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is 29 . Read the letter to me.' And he 30 handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler. 31 that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire. I must get my glasses.' With this, he hurried off the stage.
32 to the aristocrat's amusement, the gaoler returned a few moments later 33 a pair of glasses and the 34 copy of the letter which he 35 to read to the prisoner.
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