题目内容：

An old man who lived in a small street in the city of Mumbai had to put up with   1.

nuisance (烦心事) of having boys play cricket（板球）outside his house at night.

One evening when the boys were particularly noisy, he went out to talk to them. He explained that the 2.  (happy) time these days was when he could see or hear boys playing his favorite game, cricket. He said he would give them 25 rupees each week to play in the street at night.

The boys   3. (thrill). They were being paid to do something they enjoyed!   4.  the end of the first week they knocked at the old man's door and asked him to pay for   5.  ，and so he did.

The second week when they asked for 6.(pay), he said he had run out of money and sent them away with only 15 rupees. The third week the man said he had not received his pension（养老金）, only 7.  (give) them only 10 rupees. The boys were very disappointed,

8. there was not much they could do about it .The fourth week the man said he could not afford to pay them 25 rupees 9.  he had promised，but would give them 5 rupees each week without fail.

This was too much for the boys. “You expect us to play seven days a week 10. a merely 5 rupees!” they yelled. “Go to blazes.” They stormed away and never played on the street again.