阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16~25的相应位置。

My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed   16   birds for him and said that he would leave the key   17 

his front door in my mailbox.

  18   (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,    19    was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door    20    the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of    21    Vernon would say when he came back.

I was just going to give up    22    I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb    23    and open the window.

I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone    24  

(shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbours. “What are you doing up there?” said the policeman.    25   (feel) like a complete fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.”

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阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16~25的相应位置。

My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed   16   birds for him and said that he would leave the key   17 

his front door in my mailbox.

  18   (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,    19    was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door    20    the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of    21    Vernon would say when he came back.

I was just going to give up    22    I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb    23    and open the window.

I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone    24  

(shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbours. “What are you doing up there?” said the policeman.    25   (feel) like a complete fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.”