Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after __36__ thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head __37__ his walking stick.McKay’s wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a __38__ person, he had been __39__ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a __40__ collector.Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay’s, or too often, on the McKays __41__.
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our __42__,” said Laurene.She added that it wasn’t so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant __43__ bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks.“We’d be __44__ there happily reading our newspapers, when __45__ so much water would come from above that we’d be as wet as if we’d __46__ with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the __47__ of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too __48__.“It was James’s birthday,” explained Laurene, “and I’d made him a birthday cake.The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn’t get to blow them out.” __49__, Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet __50__.Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast.“I couldn’t __51__ him.He was up there in a flash.It was the fastest I’d seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police.He has also promised to change his__52__ from now on.And what of James McKay? __53__ he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”.“__54__ the most exciting birthday __55__!” said the cheerful old man.“The best since my adolescence I’d say!”
小题1: | A.hitting | B.tapping | C.pushing | D.touching |
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小题3: | A.quiet | B.sensitive | C.stubborn | D.peaceful |
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小题4: | A.accustomed | B.driven | C.taken | D.attracted |
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小题5: | A.fish | B.seed | C.plant | D.newspaper |
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小题6: | A.themselves | B.itself | C.herself | D.himself |
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小题7: | A.bathroom | B.balcony | C.bedroom | D.kitchen |
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小题8: | A.which | B.what | C.that | D.whether |
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小题9: | A.sitting | B.exercising | C.sleeping | D.eating |
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小题10: | A.regularly | B.suddenly | C.precisely | D.unconsciously |
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小题11: | A.swum | B.watered | C.showered | D.drowned |
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小题12: | A.taste | B.smell | C.feeling | D.sense |
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小题13: | A.little | B.soon | C.late | D.much |
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小题14: | A.Otherwise | B.Besides | C.Instead | D.Consequently |
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小题15: | A.over | B.across | C.through | D.down |
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小题16: | A.stop | B.blame | C.ignore | D.stand |
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小题17: | A.views | B.attitude | C.mind | D.ways |
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小题18: | A.While | B.Since | C.Until | D.As |
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小题19: | A.Sincerely | B.Impossibly | C.Previously | D.Definitely |
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小题20: | A.before | B.already | C.ever | D.since |
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