The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good
in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I
to know him. For a moment, I thought he might be
, but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was
. I felt that it was ridiculous (可笑的) to
that I could possibly have ever met with his friend out of millions of people in Chicago. But,
, I just smiled and reminded（提醒） him that Chicago was a very
city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be glad to drop the topic and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he
to tell me all about his friend.
His friend’s main
in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player, and he
had his own tennis court（网球场）. There were a lot of people with swimming
, yet there were only two people with private (私人的）tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several
like that, including my brother, who was doctor in California. He
that maybe there were more private courts in the country than he
but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me
my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence (巧合)
_ his Chicago friend also spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a
who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had
__ the house next to my brother’s house. For a moment, we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.
“Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He
and said, “Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my
to laugh. “Yes,” I replied.
| 小题1: | | A．friend | B．teacher | C．neighbour | D．brother |
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| 小题2: | | A．managed | B．tried | C．happened | D．wanted |
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| 小题3: | | A．expecting | B．joking | C．lying | D．talking |
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| 小题4: | | A．funny | B．careful | C．serious(认真） | D．disappointed |
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| 小题5: | | A．see | B．find | C．realize | D．think |
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| 小题6: | | A．indeed | B．instead | C．actually | D．exactly |
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| 小题7: | | A．big | B．interesting | C．noisy | D．famous |
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| 小题8: | | A．failed | B．stopped | C．refused | D．began |
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| 小题9: | | A．problem | B．choice | C．interest | D．work |
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| 小题10: | | A．just | B．even | C．ever | D．surely |
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| 小题11: | | A．suit | B．pools | C．habit | D．river |
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| 小题12: | | A．friends | B．players | C．strangers | D．people |
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| 小题13: | | A．advised | B．admitted 承认) | C．argued(争论) | D．announced（宣布） |
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| 小题14: | | A．recognized | B．visited | C．knew | D．found |
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| 小题15: | | A．where | B．whether | C．when | D．how |
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| 小题16: | | A．though | B．if | C．then | D．because |
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| 小题17: | | A．player | B．friend | C．neighbour | D．doctor |
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| 小题18: | | A． sold | B．visited | C．designed | D．rent |
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| 小题19: | | A．smiled | B．cried | C．laughed | D．nodded |
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| 小题20: | | A．turn | B．pleasure | C．time | D．chance |
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