When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for $200 so that he could travel to
and from work more____1____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it
got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better ___2___it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly___ 3___ to buy a cheap car,
but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so none of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's
friend Sam saw that he was ___4___ when they met one evening, and said, "What's up, Dave?"
Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may
___5___ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's
___6___ was sensible(合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "For
sale: small car, uses very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50."
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ___7___. But then on
Saturday evening he had an enquiry. A man rang up and said he would like to___8___him
about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the
next morning would be___9___or not. "Fine," the man said, "and I'll ___10___my wife. We
intend to go for a ride in it to ___11___ it."
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door,
___12___ to wait there for the people who had ___13___ his advertisement. Even Dave had
to ___14___ that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car
as clean as 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 ___15___ to us yet, sir?
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for $200 so that he could travel to and from work more____1____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then itgot so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better ___2___it. He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly___ 3___ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so none of them had any desire to buy it. Dave'sfriend Sam saw that he was ___4___ when they met one evening, and said, "What's up, Dave?" Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ___5___ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's___6___ was sensible(合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "Forsale: small car, uses very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50." For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ___7___. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry. A man rang up and said he would like to___8___him about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock thenext morning would be___9___or not. "Fine," the man said, "and I'll ___10___my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ___11___ it." The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door,___12___ to wait there for the people who had ___13___ his advertisement. Even Dave hadto ___14___ that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He lookedat Dave's car and then said, "Have you reported this ___15___ to us yet, sir?
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