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One day, a train was approaching the small town of Cheekyville. On the train was a   1   man with a big suitcase, He was called William Warbler and he looked very   2   indeed. But what made him most unusual was the fact that whenever he needed to   3  , he did so by singing opera. Even if someone said "good day" to him, he would clear his throat and   4   :      "Goood dayyy to youuuuuu to00000!"…      Almost everyone considered William unusual, since no one could get a normal   5   word out of him. And, as no one knew how he made his living-and he lived quite   6  , always wearing his old second-hand suit-they often had no   7   for him and sometimes even made fun of him.      William had been in Cheekyville for some years, when, one day, a rumor (谣言)   8   that William had   9   a role in a very important opera in the nation's capital, that there had been posters everywhere  10  the event, that nearly everyone in the capital had gone to see it, and that it had been a great  11  . And to everyone's surprise, when William was being  12   by reporters, he answered their questions by speaking  13   singing. And he did it with good  14  and with a clear and pleasant voice.      From that day on, William  15  singing at all hours. He sang only during his stage appearances. Some people  had an idea  16  he had changed, but others still had none, and continued believing him to be somewhat mad. They wouldn't have thought so  17  they had seen what William kept in his big suitcase. It was a large stone, with a hand-carved message on it.      The message said: "Practice, my boy. Practice every second, for you never know when your  18   will come."       Little did people  19  that he only got the role in the opera because the  20  had heard William singing while out buying a newspaper.

(     )1. A. handsome    (     )2. A. wealthy    (     )3. A. debate     (     )4. A. laugh     (     )5. A. advised      (     )6. A. naturally    (     )7. A. patience     (     )8. A. developed   (     )9. A. refused    (     )10. A. broadcasting (     )11. A. benefit     (     )12. A. questioned  (     )13. A. other than   (     )14. A. movement  (     )15. A. gave up   (     )16. A. how      (     )17. A. while      (     )18. A. chance       (     )19. A. appreciate  (     )20. A. villager    B. strange       B. confident        B. practice         B. respond          B. spoken           B. luckily          B. sense             B. exploded         B. created          B. advertising       B. discovery       B. blamed         B. rather than    B. efforts         B. turned down    B. why          B. because         B. mind           B. ignore            B. teacher       C. famous       C. uncommon      C. appear       C. repeat       C. written        C. simply      C. concern         C. spread          C. performed     C. supporting     C. success      C. interviewed    C. apart from    C. signs      C. asked for    C. that           C. if           C. solution      C. expect.       C. neighbor     D. sensitive            D. anxious              D. communicate          D. whisper              D. printed              D. calmly               D. respect              D. gathered             D. received             D. celebrating          D. experience           D. welcomed             D. except for           D. pronunciation        D. went over            D. where                D. since                D. wisdom               D. realize              D. director

Answer 1

1-5: B C D B B    6-10: C D C D B   11-15: C C B D A  16-20: B C A D D