湖北省高三英语经典补课材料素材（21）旧人教版VIP专享

湖北省高三英语经典补课材料（21）When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for＄200 so that he could travel to and from work more ___36____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and was costing him ___37____ much in repairs that he decided that he had better ___38______it.He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly ___39____ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so ___40____ of them had any desire to buy it.Dave’s friend Sam saw that he was ____41____ when they met one evening, and said, “What’s ___42_____, Dave?” Dave told him and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in papers? You may ___43___ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement！” Thinking that Sam’s ___44____ was sensible, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read:“ For sale： small car, ____45___ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain＄50.”For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ___46___. But then on the Saturday evening he had an enquiry(咨询). A man rang up and said he would ___47____ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o’clock the next morning would be ____48____ or not. “Fine，”the man said，“and I will ____49____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it and ___50____ it.”The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ___51___ to wait there for the people who had ___52___ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ___53___ that the car really looked like a wreck(残破的车). Then soon after he had got the car as ___54___ as it could be, a po...