Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after __36__ thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head __37__ his walking stick．McKay’s wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a __38__ person, he had been __39__ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often．
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a __40__ collector．Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay’s, or too often, on the McKays __41__．
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our __42__,” said Laurene．She added that it wasn’t so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant __43__ bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks．“We’d be __44__ there happily reading our newspapers, when __45__ so much water would come from above that we’d be as wet as if we’d __46__ with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the __47__ of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too __48__．“It was James’s birthday,” explained Laurene, “and I’d made him a birthday cake．The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn’t get to blow them out．” __49__, Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet __50__．Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast．“I couldn’t __51__ him．He was up there in a flash．It was the fastest I’d seen him move since 1964．”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police．He has also promised to change his__52__ from now on．And what of James McKay? __53__ he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”．“__54__ the most exciting birthday __55__!” said the cheerful old man．“The best since my adolescence I’d say!”
1.A．hitting B．tapping C．pushing D．touching
2.A．by B．with C．through D．via
3.A．quiet B．sensitive C．stubborn D．peaceful
4.A．accustomed B．driven C．taken D．attracted
5.A．fish B．seed C．plant D．newspaper
6.A．themselves B．itself C．herself D．himself
7.A．bathroom B．balcony C．bedroom D．kitchen
8.A．which B．what C．that D．whether
9.A．sitting B．exercising C．sleeping D．eating
10.A．regularly B．suddenly C．precisely D．unconsciously
11.A．swum B．watered C．showered D．drowned
12.A．taste B．smell C．feeling D．sense
13.A．little B．soon C．late D．much
14.A．Otherwise B．Besides C．Instead D．Consequently
15.A．over B．across C．through D．down
16.A．stop B．blame C．ignore D．stand
17.A．views B．attitude C．mind D．ways
18.A．While B．Since C．Until D．As
19.A．Sincerely B．ImpossiblyC．PreviouslyD．Definitely
20.A．before B．already C．ever D．since
He hoped that he would _____ a more suitable job．
A．be assigned B．assign
C．have been assigned D．have assigned
It makes little difference to me _____ we go or stay．
A．whether B．where C．that D．how
When asked how he liked his job, he said he was happy _____ he was．
A．what B．who C．where D．how
--- Beg your pardon, but I didn’t follow you．
--- Oh, I ______ myself．
A．would talk to B．talked to C．had talked to D．was talking to
It’s really ____ fun to walk alone with _______ full moon hanging in the sky．
A．a; the B．a; 不填 C the; a D．不填; a
