阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各个小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I got out of the train station with my father. A woman came to him and said that her  31  had been stolen. She asked if he could  32  her some money to go back home. My father gave her what she asked for and told her not to  33  paying it back. I was shocked. How could my father be so  34 ? It was clear that she was telling a lie, staying at the station all day long  35  money.

“She was lying!” I shouted.“ 36  did you give her anything? ”

My father looked at me. He was a bit  37  . “And what would you like me to do?” he said. “Should I tell  38  that I am a college professor and I can see through her scam(诡计)?” I did not understand him at all, and then he told me something that I have  39  forgotten. “First, she would not do this  40  she did not need the money. Second, I made her day, because now she thinks that she is  41  than me. It is more important to her than the money, but I do not  42  this.”

A week later, we were at the same  43  , and the same woman came to my father with the same story. “Not this time,” my father told her. “In your business, you  44  learn to recognize people. Try another story  45  me next week.”

31. A. money                B. bicycle                     C. phone               D. child

32. A. borrow               B. keep                         C. lend                  D. pay

33. A. give up         B. worry about             C. hurry up       D. turn off

34. A. clever          B. friendly                    C. strict          D. silly

35. A. asking for       B. dealing with             C. fighting for        D. picking out

36. A. What                  B. When             C. Why                 D. How

37. A. angry                  B. happy                       C. sad                   D. shy

38. A. them                   B. her                           C. you                   D. me

39. A. seldom                B. often                        C. never                D. usually

40. A. unless                 B. until                         C. while                D. if

41. A. smarter               B. younger           C. taller                 D. better

42. A. close                  B. mind                        C. enter                 D. hear

43. A. stop                    B. hospital                    C. station               D. school

44. A. should                B. can               C. may                  D. would 

45. A. of                       B. in                C. on                     D. at