One night , a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station,1 his violin . Some passers-by（行人） slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
The next day the young artist came to the same place. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and2 it on the ground and put some stones on it . Then he began playing. Before long , many people were attracted by the words on that paper which said, “ Last night a gentleman 3George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim（认领）it soon.”
A middle-aged man ran there4 and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed （抓住）his shoulders and said, “ Yes, it is you. You did come here. I knew that you are an( a ) 5 man and would certainly come here.”
The story turned out to be this: George Sang bought a lottery ticket a few days ago. The award opened yesterday and he won a prize of 5000,000 dollars. 6 his way home, he took 7 50 dollars and put it in the violinist’s hat. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown in . The violinist was a student at an Arts College . He had booked the ticket to flight and came back to8he was given the lottery ticket.
Later someone asked the violinist 9 he didn’t take the lottery ticket for himself. The violinist said, “ Although I don't have much money, I live happily. 10 if I lose honesty, I won’t feel happy forever.”
