The thief stole my wallet ________ I knew it.

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I had not been waiting very long _____ he returned from the conference in the town.

A．until     B．after            C．while          D．before

Let me say sorry to her? No way!1 would die      I apologize to her!

A．after             B．before                  C．until     D． while

Someone called me at midnight, but he hung up ________ I could answer it.

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Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after     thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head       his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a       person, he had been       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       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      .

“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our      ,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant       bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be       there happily reading our newspapers, when       so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd       with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the       of fish!”

And on Saturday evening it was just too      . “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “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.”      , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet      . Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't       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       from now on. And what of James McKay?       he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “      the most exciting birthday      !” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”                 

11．A. hitting B. tapping       C. pushing      D. touching

12．A. by      B. via      C. through      D. with

13．A. quiet   B. peaceful     C. sensitive     D. stubborn

14．A. accustomed       B. taken   C. driven D. attracted

15．A. fish     B. seed    C. plant   D. newspaper

16．A. himself       B. itself   C. themselves D. herself

17．A. bathroom   B. kitchen       C. bedroom    D. balcony

18．A. which B. what   C. that     D. whether

19．A. sitting B. exercising   C. sleeping      D. eating

20．A. regularly     B. unconsciously   C. precisely    D. suddenly

21．A. swum B. showered   C. watered      D. drowned

22．A. taste   B. sense  C. feeling D. smell

23．A. little    B. soon   C. late     D. much

24．A. Beside B. Instead       C. Otherwise  D. Consequently

25．A. over    B. across C. through      D. down

26．A. stop    B. blame  C. ignore D. stand

27．A. views  B. attitude       C. ways  D. mind

28．A. While  B. Since  C. Until   D. As

29．A. Sincerely    B. Impossibly  C. Definitely   D. Previously

30．A. before B. ever    C. already       D. since