Olive, from County Westmeath, Ireland, arrived in England to live with her daughter and son-in-law Thomas．She was 1 because of her poor health and 2 with her most of her treasured 3 ．These included a small piece of tissue paper in which she had 4 what appeared to be five teeth which had 5 her dentures(假牙)．
Having 6 in, she asked Thomas,“Do you know where I can get my dentures 7 ?”“Of course,”replied Thomas．“ 8 you give them to me, I’ll take them to a dental 9 ．"
Olive handed over the rather tired piece of paper which 10 some rather dirty-looking 11 ．Thomas drove to the dental laboratory．
“ 12 will it take?”Thomas asked the technician．
“Oh, about an hour,”smiled the dental expert．
“Then I’ll wait in the 13 ,”said Thomas,“and read my newspaper．”
An hour passed and the technician 14 at the car window 15 a plastic bag and the piece of paper．“That’ll be ￡80,”requested the specialist,“ 16 I could only fit four of the teeth to the dentures．I’m sorry．”
“That’s a 17 ,”commented Thomas．“What happened to the 18 one?”
“I have it here in the paper,”answered the technician, 19 it to Thomas．
“The thing is,”he said,“it’s easy to fit the teeth but 20 to fit this peanut(花生米)．”
The film starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school．Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football．
But there's a big surprise when the movie 1 with two students going crazy in the 2 shooting and killing people．
This is“Elephant”．Filmed in just 20 days, it stars real high school kids．American 3 Gus Van Sant had no ready made lines(台词)．The student actors 4 their own dialogue, with Van Sant asking them to base their characters on their own 5 ．
6 it may not sound very high quality, the film won the Palmed' Or(金棕榈奖)for Best Film and the award for Best Director at the Cannes 7 festival in France on May 25．
The film is based on the 8 at a high school in the US, where two boys 9 13 people and then themselves in 1999．
The title of the 10 refers to the old expression about a 11 that's as hard to ignore as an elephant in the house．
The film takes a close look at a few hours in the lives of the victims(受害者)and the 12 ．It shows how high school is a different experience for everyone－fun and friendly, or hard and 13 ．
In many ways, the two boys, who carry out the shooting, act like ordinary 14 ．But, there are hints(暗示)of the 15 they feel inside．One of the boys is bullied at school．The other plays violent 16 games．But Van Sant isn't 17 their killings on either bullying or violent video games．In fact, the film doesn't offer any 18 for why school violence happens．
“I didn't want to 19 anything．It's up to the audience to draw its own 20 ,”said the 51-year-old director．
When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church．The 1 in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into 2 based on their ages．
One Easter Sunday, all the kids 3 with big eyes and big 4 about what the Easter Bunny(复活节小兔)had brought． 5 all of the kids shared their stories with 6 , one young boy , whom I shall call Bobby, sat 7 ．One of the teachers , noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny 8 you?”He replied, “My mom 9 the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn't get 10 because he hadn't got a key．”
This sounded like a 11 idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories．My mom knew the true story, 12 ．Bobby's mom was a single parent , and she suspected(怀疑)that they just couldn't 13 the Easter Bunny．
After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to 14 ．But my mom announced that we were going home 15 ．At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel 16 , we were going to pretend(假装)to be the Easter Bunny , make a basket of our candies for him and 17 it at church．We all donated(捐赠)some to the basket, and 18 back to church．There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(挂钩)and attached(附上)a(n) 19 ：
Dear Bobby,
I'm sorry I 20 your house last night．Happy Easter．
