It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.

Burchill was 21 at the hotel on business and planning to 22 some friends in the area. They had asked him to 23 some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he 24 a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was 25 that it would be too warm, he 26 it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was 27 and well chilled (冷却) and he 28 .

That's when things went 29    ."I remember walking down the long 30 and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls," Burchill said in a recent letter of 31 to the 4-star hotel. "The seagulls immediately went 32 . They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to 33 at the same time, and pepperoni-everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real 34 .

Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).

"I have 35 and I admit responsibility of my 36    ," he said in the letter. "I come to you, 37 , to apologize for the-damage I had 38 caused and to ask you to 39 my lifetime ban from the hotel."

His letter 40 . Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.

21.

A．

studying

B．

staying

C．

looking

D．

packing

22.

A．

visit

B．

help

C．

follow

D．

make

23.

A．

sell

B．

have

C．

bring

D．

taste

24.

A．

filled

B．

locked

C．

abandoned

D．

lost

25.

A．

surprised

B．

pleased

C．

excited

D．

worried

26.

A．

dug

B．

cleared

C．

cut

D．

laid

27.

A．

delicious

B．

safe

C．

soft

D．

ready

28.

A．

left

B．

nodded

C．

waited

D．

regretted

29.

A．

far

B．

funny

C．

wrong

D．

blind

30.

A．

beach

B．

driveway

C．

hall

D．

table

31.

A．

application

B．

apology

C．

request

D．

invitation

32.

A．

hungry

B．

dead

C．

missing

D．

wild

33.

A．

wake up

B．

get out

C．

take off

D．

break in

34.

A．

mess

B．

puzzle

C．

fight

D．

challenge

35.

A．

recovered

B．

retired

C．

escaped

D．

matured

36.

A．

suffering

B．

plans

C．

madness

D．

actions

37.

A．

hands in pocket

B．

nose in the air

C．

hat in hand

D．

feet on the ground

38.

A．

indirectly

B．

deliberately

C．

cautiously

D．

secretly

39.

A．

replace

B．

remember

C．

reconsider

D．

renew

40.

A．

arrived

B．

worked

C．

ended

D．

disappeared