24、从方框内选择合适的选项完成短文。

Mr. White is the manager of a small newspaper office．He always tried to bring his readers the__1__news．0ne day he received an important telephone call from__2__ who told him that there was a sudden flood（洪水）in a village in the north and several people had__3__．Mr. White wrote it all down．That evening the story was in his newspaper．Mr. White was __4__ to see that no__5__newspapers had re：ported the news．

__6__angry telephone calls soon came and he learnt that he had been fooled．So in the next day’s newspaper he wrote，“We were the__7__ and only newspaper to re-port yesterday that the village was in a flood．Today we were proud to tell you that we were__8__ the only newspaper to bring __9__eaders the news that yesterday’s story was not __10__