Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it ____, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董的) shops near my home. ____ I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first ____ expecting a friendly reception. I was quite ____ . The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more __ _, was just the same, and the third and the fourth, so I decided that my____must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a(n)_ __ in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, “Would you like to__ __ a chair?”
He looked it over ____ and said, “Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?” “20 pounds,” I said.
“OK,” he said, “I’ll give you 20 pounds.”
“It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said.
“Yes, I saw that, it’s ____ .”
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting ____ . “What will you do with it?” I asked.
“Oh, it will be easy to sell ____ the repair is done.”
“I’ll buy it,” I said.
“What do you mean? You’ve just ____ it to me,” he said.
“Yes, I know but I’ve ____ my mind. I am sorry. I’ll give you 27 pounds for it.”
“You must be ____ ,” he said. Then, ____ the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair.”
“You’re ____ ,” I said. “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ‘Would you mend this chair for me?’
“I wouldn’t have ____ to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much ____ . But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for five pounds?”
He was a very nice man and was greatly ____ by the whole thing.
A.sold B.returned C.cleaned D.repaired
A.And B.Yet C.Still D.So
A.club B.shop C.restaurant D.station
A.confident B.polite C.careless D.wrong
A.eager B.different C.polite D.strange
A.approach B.appearance C.decision D.manners
A.question B.plan C.belief D.excuse
A.check B.buy C.repair D.see
A.carefully B.hurriedly C.unhappily D.excitedly
A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
A.worried B.patient C.confused D.excited
A.since B.once C.unless D.while
A.lent B.sent C.sold D.returned
A.spoken B.changed C.settled D.lost
A.anxious B.disappointed C.sick D.crazy
A.constantly B.eventually C.suddenly D.naturally
A.lucky B.wrong C.right D.wise
A.expected B.agreed C.managed D.refused
A.loss B.damage C.trouble D.pressure
A.amused B.disturbed C.inspired D.warne