When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him____much in repairs that he decided that he had better ____it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly____to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so___of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was ____ when they met one evening, and said, “What's____, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ___more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's____was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car,____ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ____.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to___ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be____or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ____ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ____ to wait there for the people who had____ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ____that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean____ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this ____ to us yet, sir?”
小题1: | A.directly | B.safely | C.properly | D.easily |
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小题3: | A.keep | B.repair | C.sell | D.throw |
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小题4: | A.anxious | B.lucky | C.ashamed | D.generous |
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小题5: | A.some | B.neither | C.none | D.most |
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小题6: | A.delighted | B.upset | C.calm | D.astonished |
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小题9: | A.message | B.advice | C.request | D.description |
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小题10: | A.uses | B.loses | C.has | D.spends |
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小题11: | A.doubt | B.help | C.trouble | D.answer |
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小题13: | A.exact | B.suitable | C.early | D.late |
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小题14: | A.follow | B.meet | C.bring | D.introduce |
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小题15: | A.recognize | B.gain | C.admire | D.test |
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小题16: | A.happening | B.meaning | C.turning | D.failing |
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小题17: | A.read | B.inserted | C.answered | D.placed |
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小题18: | A.forget | B.show | C.disagree | D.admit |
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小题20: | A.bargain | B.sale | C.accident | D.result |
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