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!”
| 小题1: | | A．hitting | B．tapping | C．pushing | D．touching |
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| 小题3: | | A．quiet | B．sensitive | C．stubborn | D．peaceful |
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| 小题4: | | A．accustomed | B．driven | C．taken | D．attracted |
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| 小题5: | | A．fish | B．seed | C．plant | D．newspaper |
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| 小题6: | | A．themselves | B．itself | C．herself | D．himself |
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| 小题7: | | A．bathroom | B．balcony | C．bedroom | D．kitchen |
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| 小题8: | | A．which | B．what | C．that | D．whether |
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| 小题9: | | A．sitting | B．exercising | C．sleeping | D．eating |
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| 小题10: | | A．regularly | B．suddenly | C．precisely | D．unconsciously |
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| 小题11: | | A．swum | B．watered | C．showered | D．drowned |
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| 小题12: | | A．taste | B．smell | C．feeling | D．sense |
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| 小题13: | | A．little | B．soon | C．late | D．much |
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| 小题14: | | A．Otherwise | B．Besides | C．Instead | D．Consequently |
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| 小题15: | | A．over | B．across | C．through | D．down |
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| 小题16: | | A．stop | B．blame | C．ignore | D．stand |
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| 小题17: | | A．views | B．attitude | C．mind | D．ways |
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| 小题18: | | A．While | B．Since | C．Until | D．As |
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| 小题19: | | A．Sincerely | B．Impossibly | C．Previously | D．Definitely |
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| 小题20: | | A．before | B．already | C．ever | D．since |
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