4.A

Jenkins was a jeweler, who had made a large diamond ring worth $57 000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked  1   like the first one but was worth only $2 000. This he took to the shop, which  2   it without a question.

Jenkins gave the much more  3  ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife  4  to Paris for a weekend.As to the  5  ring, the shop sold it for $60 000.

Six months later the buyer  6   it back to Silkstone's office. “It's a faulty diamond,” he said,“It isn't worth the high  7   I paid.”Then he told them the  8  . His wife's car had caught fire in an  9  . She had escaped,  10  the ring had fallen off and been damaged in the great  11   of the fire.

The shop had to  12  .They knew that no fire on earth can  13   damage a perfect diamond.Someone had taken the  14   diamond and put a faulty one its place. The question was: who  15   it?

A picture of the ring appeared in the  16  .A reader thought he  17   the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which  18   a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman  19   a large diamond ring. “Do you know the  20   with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.

1.A.only            B.surely             C.nearly             D.exactly

2.A.accepted         B.received           C.refused            D.rejected

3.A.real             B.modern               C.worthy            D.valuable

4.A.flew            B.drove             C.sailed             D.bicycled

5.A.first            B.second            C.last             

6.A.sold            B.posted            C.brought           D.returned

7.A.cost            B.money            C.price             D.value

8.A.facts            B.matters            C.questions          D.results

9.A.affair               B.accident           C.incident           D.experience

10.A.so             B.or               C.but              D.and

11.A.pile            B.heat              C.power            D.pressure

12.A.think           B.agree             C.permit            D.promise

13.A.almost          B.even             C.just              D.ever

14.A.real            B.pure              C.right             D.exact

15.A.copied          B.made             C.stole             D.did

16.A.notices         B.magazines         C.newspapers         D.programmes

17.A.saw            B.knew             C.found             D.recognized

18.A.showed         B.drew             C.printed            D.carried

19.A.carrying        B.dressing           C.wearing           D.holding

20.A.dancer          B.woman            C.reader            D.jeweller

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