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Some humor can be cruel but some people seem to enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck at times. Perhaps it makes ___36____ feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else ___37____(bad) off than ourselves. ___38___, some actors can astonish us with the deep feelings. Charlie Chaplin, the most famous actor ___39____ the period 
of silent films, was such an actor. He was able ___40____(make) terrible situations funny and at the same time show the humanity and kindness that can be found in the most difficult circumstances. Take The Gold Rush for example. The film___41___(set) in California in the middle of the nineteenth century. Chaplin and his friend wash sand from the river in a pan of water. ___42___they expect eagerly to find gold, they have not been ___43___ (fortune) enough to find any. Instead, they are caught in a snowstorm in a small wooden house, ___44___ (have) nothing to eat. They are so hungry ___45___ they have to boil a pair of leather shoes and eat it. Chaplin seems to eat every mouthful with great enjoyment and makes it seem to be one of the best meals he has ever had!