30.(  )  A. public   B. personal  C. small  D. important

B

  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  11  like the first one but was worth only $2,000 . This he took to the shop , which  12  it without a question .

Jenkins gave the much more  13  ring to his wife for the fortieth birthday . Then the husband and his wife  14  to Paris for a weekend . As to the  15  ring , the shop sold it for $60,000 .Six months later ,the buyer  16  it back to Silkstone’s office . “It ‘s a faulty diamond ,” he said , “ It isn’t worth the high  17  I paid .” Then he told them the  18  .His wife’s car had caught fire in an  19  .She had escaped , 20  the ring had fallen off and been damaged in the great  21  of the fire .

The shop had to  22  . They knew that no fire on earth can  23  damage a perfect diamond . Someone had taken the  24  diamond and put a faulty one in its place . The question was : Who  25  it ?

A picture of the ring appeared in the  26  .A reader thought he  27  the ring . The next day , another picture appeared in the papers which  28  a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris . Behind the dancer there was a woman  29  a large diamond ring . “Do you know the  30  with the lovely diamond ring ?” the papers asked their readers .Several months later ,Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison .

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