【题目】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。

Eightyyearold retired tailor,James McKay,spent Saturday night in jail after ____ thirtyyearold Keith Smith over the head ____ his walking stick. McKay's wife,Laurene told us that while McKay is usually a ____ person,he had been ____ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.

Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener,he is also a ____ collector. Unfortunately for him,the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKays',or too often,on the McKays ____.

“For the last fortnight,since Smith moved into the flat above us,we have hardly dared to go to our ____,”said Laurene. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant ____bothered them,it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks.“We'd be ____ there happily reading our newspapers,when ____ so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd ____ with our clothes on!Neither could we get rid of the ____ of fish!”

And on Saturday evening it was just too ____.“It was James's birthday,”explained Laurene,“and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine,but James didn't get to blow them out.”____,Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet ____.Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast.“I couldn't ____ him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”

Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his ____ from now on. And what of James McKay?____ he left the police station,a large crowd of supporters sang him.“Happy Birthday.”“____ the most exciting birthday ____!” said the cheerful old man.“The best since my adolescence I'd say!”

【1】A. hitting B.tapping

C.pushing D.touching

【2】A. by B.with

C.through D.via

【3】A. quiet B.sensitive

C.stubborn D.peaceful

【4】A. accustomed B.driven

C.taken D.attracted

【5】A. fish B.seed

C.plant D.newspaper

【6】A. themselves B.itself

C.herself D.himself

【7】A. bathroom B.balcony

C.bedroom D.kitchen

【8】A. which B.what

C.that D.whether

【9】A. sitting B.exercising

C.sleeping D.eating

【10】A. regularly B.suddenly

C.precisely D.unconsciously

【11】A. swum B.watered

C.showered D.drowned

【12】A.taste B.smell

C.feeling D.sense

【13】A. little B.soon

C.late D.much

【14】A. Otherwise B.Besides

C.Instead D.Consequently

【15】A. over B.across

C.through D.down

【16】A. stop B.blame

C.ignore D.stand

【17】A. views B.attitudes

C.minds D.ways

【18】A. While B.Since

C.Until D.As

【19】A. Sincerely B.Impossibly

C.Previously D.Definitely

【20】A. before B.already

C.ever D.since

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