Question

The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good ______ in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I ______ to know him . For a moment, I thought he might be ______ , but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was _____. I felt like saying that it was ridiculous (可笑的) to think that out of all the millions of people in Chicago I could possibly have ever bumped into his friend. But, ______, I just smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very _____ city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be content to drop the subject and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he ______ to tell me all about his friend.

His friend’s main ______ in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player, and he even had his own tennis court（网球场）. There were a lot of people with swimming _______, yet there were only two people with private tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several ______ like that, including my brother, who was doctor in California. He ______ that maybe there were more private courts in the country, than he realized but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me ______ my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence(巧合) ______ his Chicago friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a ______ who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had hired the house next to my brother’s house. For a moment, we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.

“Would your friend’s name happen（碰巧） to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He laughed and said,“Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my ______ to laugh. “Yes,” I replied.

1.A. brother B. teacher C. neighbour D. friend

2.A. managed B. Happened C. tried D. wanted

3.A. expecting B. lying C. joking D. talking

4.A. funny B. serious C. careful D. disappointed

5.A. indeed B. actually C. instead D. exactly

6.A. famous B. interesting C. noisy D. big

7.A. began B. stopped C. refused D. failed

8.A. problem B. interest C. choice D. work

9.A. suit B. habit C. pools D. river

10.A. people B. players C. strangers D. friends

11.A. advised B. argued C. admitted D. announced

12.A. how B. whether C. when D. where

13.A. because B. if C. then D. though

14.A. doctor B. friend C. neighbour D. player

15.A. chance B. pleasure C. time D. turn

Answer 1