内容正文:
Passage One
A giant ship engine b___1____. So the ship lost power. The ship's owners were very w___2____. They tried one engineer after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships s____3____he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he a___4_____, he immediately went to work. He e___5____ the engine very carefully, from top to bottom.
The ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do.
After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Right away, the engine started back up. He then carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the owner r____6___ a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.
"What?!" the owners exclaimed. “He h____7___ did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."
The man sent a bill that rea