完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I had just picked up my new car, a very beautiful automobile if you’re into cars. A few months later, I was involved in an ___ . That new and very beautiful car was destroyed.
It was clearly not my __ . The other guy was so busy on his cell phone that he went right through a red light and knocked into the passenger side of my car. It was even _ because my niece was asleep on the back seat and her father, my brother, was in the front passenger seat. He was not _____, to say the least.
The police arrived and began taking statements. I __ that my speed had been up to about 55kmph. “So you were going about 50kmph…” he said.
“No, I said I was doing about 55kmph,” I said.
“Right, so you were doing about 50kmph…” again he __ .
In a slightly ___ tone because I felt I wasn’t being heard, I said: “No! I was doing about 55kmph!”
“OK, if that’s _ you want it,” this time the officer simply replied.
I didn’t ___ it at the time, but I was shooting myself in the foot. My insurance company paid me for the damages to my car. __ , I totally missed the boat on the other driver’s insurance company.
The city speed limit is 50km. I ___ getting 50 percent less than I would have from the other guy’s insurance company because I had _______I was doing 55km.
It suddenly ______me that the traffic policeman had been trying to help me out. He hadn’t ______ about the 5kmph; he had known _____ about the insurance that I had not.
I thought about what had ____ over and over again. I might have carried on insisting that I told the _____ , but I could at least have said “Thank you” to him _ acting so rudely. After all, he had been trying to help me out.
Sometimes the ____ thing to do is to let other people talk while you simply shut up and listen. Never forget --- to ____ , you have to be able to listen.
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A.accident |
B.event |
C.incident |
D.exam |
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A.effort |
B.fault |
C.attempt |
D.intention |
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A.luckier |
B.angrier |
C.scarier |
D.sadder |
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A.frightened |
B.nervous |
C.happy |
D.worried |
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A.argued |
B.explained |
C.shouted |
D.introduced |
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A.reminded |
B.required |
C.resisted |
D.repeated |
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A.contented |
B.surprised |
C.puzzled |
D.annoyed |
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A.the speed |
B.the result |
C.the fact |
D.the way |
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A.believe |
B.imagine |
C.realize |
D.think |
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A.However |
B.Therefore |
C.Besides |
D.Furthermore |
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A.gave up |
B.ended up |
C.took up |
D.made up |
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A.thought |
B.said |
C.insisted |
D.suggested |
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A.turned |
B.struck |
C.occurred |
D.came |
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A.talked |
B.found |
C.minded |
D.noticed |
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A.something |
B.nothing |
C.anything |
D.everything |
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A.remained |
B.happened |
C.passed |
D.ended |
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A.reality |
B.course |
C.truth |
D.cause |
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A.more than |
B.instead of |
C.regardless of |
D.other than |
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A.happiest |
B.easiest |
C.worst |
D.hardest |
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A.hear |
B.learn |
C.say |
D.Think |
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