第二部分：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30 分)

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。

When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__21__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him _22_much in repairs that he decided that he had better _23_it.

He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_24_ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so_25_ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was _26_ when they met one evening, and said, “What's _27_, Dave?”

Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may _28_more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's_29_was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, _30_ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”

For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no _31_.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to_32_ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be_33_or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll _34_my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to _35_ it.”

The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, _36_ to wait there for the people who had_37_ his advertisement. Even Dave had to _38_that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean_39_ 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 _40_ to us yet, sir?”

21. A. directly B. safely C. properly D. easily

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

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

24. A. anxious B. lucky C. ashamed D. generous

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

26. A. delighted B. upset C. calm D. astonished

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

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

29. A. message B. advice C. request D. description

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

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

32. A. tell B. see C. agree D. call

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

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

35. A. recognize B. gain C. admire D. test

36. A. happening B. meaning C. turning D. failing

37. A. read B. inserted C. answered D. placed

38. A. forget B. show C. disagree D. admit

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

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