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When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand 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?”

1.A. directly B. safely C. properly D. easily

2.A. so B. such C. very D. too

3.A. keep B. repair C. sell D. throw

4.A. anxious B. lucky C. ashamed D. generous

5.A. some B. neither C. none D. most

6.A. delighted B. upset C. calm D. astonished

7.A. on B. up C. it D. that

8.A. learn B. miss C. get D. find

9.A. message B. advice C. request D. description

10.A. uses B. loses C. has D. spends

11.A. doubt B. help C. trouble D. answer

12.A. tell B. see C. agree D. call

13.A. exact B. suitable C. early D. late

14.A. follow B. meet C. bring D. introduce

15.A. recognize B. gain C. admire D. test

16.A. happening B. meaning C. turning D. failing

17.A. read B. inserted C. answered D. placed

18.A. forget B. show C. disagree D. admit

19.A. as B. that C. so D. such

20.A. bargain B. sale C. accident D. result

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