第二节语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
One day, Henry Adam, an American businessman, sailed out of the bay.    11   (luck) he was carried out to sea by a strong wind. Just when hope was about gone, he was picked up by a ship for London. In the ship he earned his passage by   12  (work) without pay, as a common sailor. When he got to London he was almost   13  .(penny)
On the following morning Henry was wandering on the pavement, when a window behind him was raised, and a gentleman asked him to step in. He   14  (show) into a room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. A couple of days   15   these two old and wealthy brothers had been having a hot argument what might happen to a stranger in London without a friend, and with no money   16   a million-pound bank-note. One said he   17  (starve) to death; the other said he wouldn't. So they agreed to decide it by a bet. They wrote a   18   with the million-pound bank-note in it. Then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to until Henry came along.
After they had his story, one of   19   handed Henry an envelope, and said he would find the explanation inside. After promising   20   to open it until 2 o’clock, Henry took his leave.