1 . 21-year-old Joe McGrath received a strange Facebook message. Someone asked if he ________to go on holiday to Spain with a group of________for free! McGrath thought it was a ________.
But it turned out the________was legitimate (合情理的). A group of friends were looking for someone to take the place of another mate, who shares the same________with Joe McGrath and had dropped out of a pre-booked holiday, to take a mad________to Majorca.
The message read: “Hi Joe. Would you________coming on holiday with a group of nice strangers if they had already arranged(安排)flights for you and an all-inclusive hotel?”
“It’s our friend Nathan’s 30th birthday and we ________to throw him a surprise holiday break in Majorca. Unluckily, our friend Joe McGrath can’t ________, but we have already booked it all up for him.”
Although they ________15 other Joe McGraths on social media, the 21-year-old from Manchester, England, was the only one to reply and finally ________ to go on the paid-for trip.
“At first I was ________ the holiday,” McGrath said, “After speaking to Dan, one of the group, on the phone, I realized he was a(n) ________ person and the friends were real, and this holiday was ________.”
In the end, McGrath decided to leave for the moment and drove to Bristol to ________ the nine strangers. “When I turned up at Dan’s house and it was all dark I was a bit ________ but as soon as I met him it was_______. There was no awkwardness(尴尬)really.”
“They were a lovely group of people! I ________ every minute of it.”
McGrath said he is already ________ to visit his new friends again and has invited them to Manchester, where he lives, to take them on a night out to express ________ to them.
1. A.wanted | B.promised | C.hurried | D.managed |
2. A.friends | B.neighbors | C.classmates | D.strangers |
3. A.mistake | B.joke | C.story | D.warning |
4. A.thought | B.method | C.offer | D.question |
5. A.job | B.name | C.hobby | D.problem |
6. A.test | B.prize | C.trip | D.service |
7. A.continue | B.suggest | C.avoid | D.consider |
8. A.decided | B.happened | C.forgot | D.began |
9. A.answer | B.afford | C.work | D.attend |
10. A.helped | B.praised | C.messaged | D.studied |
11. A.agreed | B.asked | C.needed | D.learned |
12. A.excited about | B.tired of | C.unsure about | D.supportive of |
13. A.handsome | B.important | C.silly | D.real |
14. 15. A.train | B.meet | C.stop | D.save |
16. A.nervous | B.sad | C.careless | D.bored |
17. A.simple | B.funny | C.terrible | D.fine |
18. A.knew | B.expected | C.enjoyed | D.imagined |
19. A.regretting | B.planning | C.refusing | D.remembering |
20. A.thanks | B.worries | C.interests | D.ideas |