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广东省高州市顿梭中学10-11学年高一9月月考(英语) When Dave was
eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and
from work more 21 than by bus．It worked quite well for a few
years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him 22 much in repairs that he decided
that he had better 23 it．
He
asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly 24 to buy a cheap car, but they all
knew that it was falling to pieces, so 25 of them had any desire to buy it．Dave's friend Sam saw that he
was 26 when they met one evening,
and said, “What's 27 , Dave?”
Dave
told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You
may 28 more for it that way than the cost
of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's___29___was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an
evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, 30 very little petrol, only two
owners．Bargain(要价)at 50．”For two days after the
advertisement first appeared, there was no ___31___．But then on Saturday evening he had
an enquiry(询问)．A man
rang up and said he would like to___32___ him about the car．“All right,” Dave said, feeling
happy．He asked the
man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be___33___or not．“Fine,” the man said, “and I'll
___34____my wife．We intend to
go for a ride in it to
35 it．”
The
next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside
his front door, ____36___ to wait there for the people who had____37____ his
advertisement．Even Dave had
to ___38___that the car really looked like a 
wreck(残骸)．Then, soon after he had got the
car as clean___39___ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a
policeman got out．He looked at
Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this ____40___ to us yet, sir?”