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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