Question

When Dave was 18, he bought an secondhand car for＄200 so that he could travel to work more____ than by bus. It worked quite well for years, but then it got so old, and it cost him____much in repairs that he decided that he had better _____it.

He asked all his friends to see if anyone wanted to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so_______ of them wanted to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was worried 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 right, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, _____ very little oil, only two owners. Bargain (成交) at＄50.”

For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no _____.But then on Saturday evening a man rang up and said he would like to see the car. Dave felt very 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 want 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, waiting there for the people who had answered his advertisement. Even Dave had to admit(承认) that the car really ___ 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. easily B. safely C. properly D. directly

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

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

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

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

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

7.A. message B. advice C. request（要求） D. description

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

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

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

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

12. A. praise B. get C. admire D. test

13.A. looked B. smelled C. tasted D. sounded

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

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

Answer 1