TheotherdayIwastalkingtoastrangeronthebus;hetoldmethath...

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The other day I was talking to a stranger on the Bus; he told me that he had a good ___36___ in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I ___37___ to know him . For a moment, I thought he might be ___38___ , but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was ___39___. I felt like saying that it was ridiculous (可笑的) to think that out of all the millions of people in Chicago I could possibly have ever bumped into his friend. But, ___40___, I just smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very ___41___ city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be content to drop the subject and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he ___42___ to tell me all about his friend.

His friend’s main ___43___ in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player, and he even had his own tennis court（网球场）. There were a lot of people with swimming ___44___, yet there were only two people with private tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several ___45___ like that, including my brother, who was doctor in California. He ___46___ that maybe there were more private courts in the country, than he realized but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me ___47___ my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence(巧合) ___48___ his Chicago friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a ___49___ who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had hired the house next to my brother’s house. For a moment, we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.

“Would your friend’s name happen（碰巧） to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He laughed and said,“Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my ___50___ to laugh. “Yes,” I replied.

36. A. brother B. teacher C. neighbour D. friend

37. A. managed B. Happened C. tried D. wanted

38. A. expecting B. lying C. joking D. talking

39. A. funny B. serious C. careful D. disappointed

40. A. indeed B. actually C. instead D. exactly

41. A. famous B. interesting C. noisy D. big

42. A. began B. stopped C. refused D. failed

43. A. problem B. interest C. choice D. work

44. A. suit B. habit C. pools D. river

45. A. people B. players C. strangers D. friends

46. A. advised B. argued C. admitted D. announced

47. A. how B. whether C. when D. where