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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，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

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.

1.A. accident           B. event         C. incident        D. exam

2.A. effort             B. fault         C. attempt         D. intention

3.A. luckier            B. angrier       C. scarier         D. sadder

4.A. frightened         B. nervous      C. happy           D. worried

5.A. argued           B. explained    C. shouted         D. introduced

6.A. reminded         B. required      C. resisted       D. repeated

7.A. contented          B. surprised     C. puzzled        D. annoyed

8.A. the speed          B. the result    C. the fact       D. the way

9.A. believe            B. imagine       C. realize        D. think

10.A. However          B. Therefore    C. Besides         D. Furthermore

11.A. gave up           B. ended up     C. took up        D. made up

12.A. thought           B. said         C. insisted       D. suggested

13.A. turned            B. struck       C. occurred       D. came

14.A. talked            B. found         C. minded         D. noticed

15.A. something         B. nothing      C. anything       D. everything

16.A. remained          B. happened     C. passed         D. ended

17.A. reality           B. course       C. truth           D. cause

18.A. more than        B. instead of    C. regardless of  D. other than

19.A. happiest          B. easiest      C. worst          D. hardest

20.A. hear              B. learn        C. say            D. Think