Question

根据上下文及首字母提示，补全单词，完成短文。

     Some people do not like a   l    to be out of  place; they are never late for work; they return their books to the library
on ti me; they r   2    people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as s   3    as they arrive. Mr. Dodds is such a person.
     Mr. Dodds works in a bank, and lives on his own. The o   4    family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there
with her husband and her son, Mark. Mr. Dodds doesn't see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he
sends them Christmas cards, and he has not f   5    one of Mark's seventeen birthdays.
     Last week Mr. Dodds had quite a surprise. He drove from the bank at the usual time, driving n   6    too slowly nor
too fast, he stopped his car as u   7    , out the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. Straight
away, there was a k   8    at the door, Mr. Dodds opened the door, to find a policeman s   9    on the doorstep. "What
have I done wrong?" Mr. Dodds asked h   10   "Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been any trouble
at the bank? Have l forgotten to pay an important bill?""Hello, Uncle," said the policeman. "My name is Mark. "

1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10. _____

Answer 1

1. anything   2. remember   3. soon   4. only   5. forgotten
6. neither   7. usual   8. knock   9. standing   10. himself