Mr. West intended to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very busy, so he was never  1  to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week   2  Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he  3  that he could not wait any longer. He worked in an office, and   4  had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch   5  .The shop was full of women, who were also buying presents during their lunch hour.
Mr. West stood politely at the edge(边)of a crowd of women who were   6   forward to try to get to the people who were  7  necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forward slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were  8  into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly past him.
After half an hour, he was just as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been   9  he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to an end, so he decided to change his   10   of doing things: he put his head down,  11  a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards the  12  of the crowd as hard as he could.
The women around him became very  13  when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold him.” Why can’t you behave like a gentleman?” they shouted.
“Ladies,” he   14   them,” I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has done me no   15  ,so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”

A．sure B．certain C．able D．possible

A．before B．after C．till D．within

A．promised B．decided C．agreed D．insisted

A．never B．sometimes C．seldom D．usually

A．hour B．moment C．minute D．second

A．pulling B．pushing C．gathering D．managing

A．selling B．buying C．choosing D．seizing

A．going B．entering C．fetching D．coming

A．where B．until C．when D．even if

A．habit B．way C．action D．sign

A．caught B．made C．blew D．gave

A．center B．end C．front D．back

A．patient B．angry C．surprised D．nervous

A．hated B．waved C．explained D．answered

A．treasure B．good C．respect D．present