文档介绍：被误会的鲜花与柜子
Directions:Read the following passage. The passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
We spent a day in the country,picking wild flowers. With the car full of flowers we were going home. On our way back my wife noticed a cupboard (柜厨)outside a furniture shop. It was tall and narrow.“Buy it,”my wife said at once. “We’ll carry it home on the roof rack. I’ve always wanted one like that.”
What could I do?Ten minutes later I was ￡20 poorer;and the cupboard was tied on the roof rack. It was six feet long and eighteen inches square, quite heavy too.
In the gathering darkness I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed unusually polite that evening. The police even stopped traffic to let us through. Carrying furniture was a good idea.
After a time my wife said,“There’s a long line of cars behind. Why don’t they overtake,I wonder?”In fact a police car did overtake. The two officers inside looked at us seriously as they passed. But then,with great kindness,they led us through the rushhour traffic. The police car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me.
“Right,sir,”he said.“Do you need any more help?”
I was a bit puzzled.“Thanks,officer,”I said.“You have been very kind. I live just on