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When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__1__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him _2_much in repairs that he decided that he had better _3_it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_ 4_ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so_5_ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was _6_ when they met one evening, and said, “What's _7_, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may _8_more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's_9_was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, _10_ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no _11_.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to_12_ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be_13_or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll _14_my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to _15_ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, _16_ to wait there for the people who had_17_ his advertisement. Even Dave had to _18_that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean_19_ 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 _20_ 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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