摘要： He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he it differently. A. could express B. would express C. could have expressed D. must have expressed 答案 C 2008年高考题
In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job．I worked as a(n) 1 at Mr．Breen’s fruit shop．The fruit shop did 2 business．Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood, 3 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars．Mr．Breen 4 them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 5 me to carry it out to their car．They were clearly long-standing customers, and I 6 they must have stayed faithful to him 7 he had promised to sell good quality 8 ．He had a way with them－I had to 9 that．He called every woman “madam” for a start, 10 those who clearly were not, but when he 11 it, it did not sound like flattery(奉承)．It just sounded 12 in an old-fashioned way．He was a great chatter 13 ．If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few 14 about the weather, 15 he did, he would ask about their families or make 16 , always cutting his cloth 17 his customers．Whatever their bills came to, he 18 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱)，and I am sure they thought he was very generous．But I thought he was the opposite．He never 19 anything away．He was always looking for 20 for nothing．
In the winter vocation of 2008, I was fixed with a job．I worked as a(n) 1 at Mr Breen's fruit shop．The fruit shop did good business．Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood, 2 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars．Mr Breen 3 them all by names and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 4 me to carry it out to their car．They were clearly longstanding customers, and I 5 they must have stayed faithful to him because he had promised to sell good quality fruits．He had a way with them－I had to 6 that．He called every woman “madam” for a start, 7 those who clearly were not, but when he said it, it did not sound like flattery(恭维)．It just sounded 8 in an old-fashioned way．He was a great chatter 9 ．If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few 10 about the weather, 11 he did, he would ask about their families or make 12 , always cutting his cloth 13 his customers．Whatever their bills came to, he 14 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱), and I was sure they thought he was very generous．But I thought he was the opposite．He never threw anything away．He was always looking for 15 for nothing．
In the summer vacation of 1997．I was fixed with a job．I worked as a(n) 1 at Mr．Breen’s fruit shop．The fruit shop did 2 business．Most of the trade hood, 3 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars．Mr．Breen 4 them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 5 me to carry it out to their car．They were clearly long-standing customers, and I 6 they must have stayed faithful to him 7 he had promised to sell good quality 8 ．He had a way with them－I had to 9 that．He called every woman“madam”for a start, 10 those who clearly were not, but when he 11 it, it did not sound like flattery(奉承)．It just sounded 12 in an old-fashioned way．He was a great chatter 13 ．If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few 14 about the weather, 15 he did, he would ask about their families or make 16 , always cutting his cloth 17 his customers．Whatever their bills came to, he 18 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱)，and I am sure they thought he was very generous(慷慨)．But I thought he was the opposite．He never 19 anything away．He was always looking for 20 for nothing．
In the winter vocation of 2008, I was fixed with a job．I worked as a(n) 1 at Mr Breen's fruit shop．The fruit shop did good business．Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood, 2 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars．Mr Breen 3 them all by names and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 4 me to carry it out to their car．They were clearly longstanding customers, and I 5 they must have stayed faithful to him because he had promised to sell good quality fruits．He had a way with them－I had to 6 that．He called every woman“madam”for a start, 7 those who clearly were not, but when he said it, it did not sound like flattery(恭维)．It just sounded 8 in an old-fashioned way．He was a great chatter 9 ．If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few 10 about the weather, 11 he did, he would ask about their families or make 12 , always cutting his cloth 13 his customers．Whatever their bills came to, he 14 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱), and I was sure they thought he was very generous．But I thought he was the opposite．He never threw anything away．He was always looking for 15 for nothing．
A certain student passed all his examinations．Then he went to college to continue his (1) There he put down his name for a course in geography, but after the first (2) , he did not go to it any more．
The geography lecturer (3) that this student was always (4) and thought that he had changed to another course, so he was (5) when he saw the boy's name on the (6) of students who wanted to take the geography test at the end of this year．
The lecturer had prepared a (7) examination paper, which followed his (8) very closely, and he was (9) to see how this student answered the questions．He (10) that the boy’s answers would be very bad, but when they (11) him soon after the exam and he examined them (12) he was able to find only one small mistake in them． (13) this surprised him very much, he (14) the paper again twice but was (15) not able to find more than that one small mistake so he (16) for the student to question him about his work．
When the student came into the room and sat down, the lecturer said to him, “I (17) that you came to my first lecture and you have been absent from all the others．But now I have examined your (18) very carefully and I have been able to find only one small mistake in it．I am (19) to know your explanation for that．”
“Oh, I am very sorry about that mistake,” answered the student．“After the examination, I (20) what I ought to have written．I would not have made that mistake if I had not been confused by your first lecture．”