25.A. ever B.
even
C. now
D. so
Jenkins was a jewller , 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 Silkstdhe'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 in 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.