Manyyearsago,whenIwasayoungmaninmytwenties,Iworkedasasa...

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Many years ago, when I was a young man in my twenties, I worked as a salesman for a piano company. We sold our pianos all over the state by  11_ in small town newspapers and then we would send the pianos to those who had   12  . Every time we would receive a reply on a   13   which said, “Please bring me a new piano for my little  14 . I can pay $10 a month with my egg money.” Of course, we could not sell a new piano for $10 a month, so we   15   her postcards. A couple of years later, I   16   my own piano company, and when I advertised in that area, the postcards started coming to me. For months, I ignored them – what else could I do? But then, one day when I was in the area   17   came over me. I had a piano on my little truck. Despite knowing that I was about to make a   18   business decision, I   19__ the piano to her and told her I would carry the contract(合同) myself at $10 a month with no interest, and that would      __20  52 payments. I thought I had just   21   a new piano. But the payments came in, all 52 of them as   22  . It was   23  ! So, I put the incident out of my mind for 20 years. Then one day I was in New York on other business.   24   I was sitting at the bar having a drink at the Holiday Inn, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. I   25  , and there was a lovely young woman playing a very nice grand piano. I was surprised by her excellent   26  , and I  27  my drink and moved to a table beside her. She smiled at me, and when she took a  28_ she sat down at my table. “Aren’t you the man who sold my grandpa a  29   a long time ago?”  I _30_  remembered. My God, it was her! It was the little girl — the old lady’s granddaughter!

26. A. advertising         B. explaining         C. suggesting        D. announcing

27. A. replied                     B. answered                C. received                  D. decided

28. A. book                        B. letter                       C. postcard                 D. newspaper

29. A. son                          B. daughter                  C. grandson                 D. granddaughter

30. A. lost                          B. ignored                   C. valued                     D. missed

31. A. began                       B. owned                    C. developed        D. devoted

32. A. something                 B. anything                  C. everything        D. nothing

33. A. big                           B. quick                      C. terrible                    D. wonderful

34. A. lent                          B. promised                 C. delivered                 D. provided

35. A. offer                         B. indicate                   C. ensure                     D. mean

36. A. thrown away            B. taken over        C. given out                 D. turned out

37. A. advised                    B. agreed                    C. told                         D. paid

38. A. doubtful                   B. natural                     C. surprising                D. reasonable

39. A. As                           B. If                            C. Because                  D. Until

40. A. made out                  B. took off                   C. came about             D. looked around

41. A. performance             B. appearance             C. voice                      D. sound

42. A. took up                    B. picked up                C. made up                 D. turned up

43. A. walk                        B. lesson                     C. break                      D. moment

44. A. toy                           B. guitar                      C. present                   D. piano

45. A. suddenly                  B. regularly                  C. normally                  D. carefully

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