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 _______ at the hotel on business and planning to _______ some friends in the area. They had asked him to _______ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he _______ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was _______ that it would be too warm, he _______ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was _______ and well chilled (冷却) and he _______ .
That’s when things went _________ “I remember walking down the long ____________ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls,” Burchill said in a recent letter of ____________ to the 4-star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went ____________. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to ____________ at the same time, and pepperoni—everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real ____________.”
Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).
“I have ____________ and I admit responsibility of my ____________,” he said in the letter. “I come to you, ____________, to apologize for the-damage I had ____________ caused and to ask you to ____________ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”
His letter ____________. Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.
1.A.studying | B.staying | C.looking | D.packing |
2.A.visit | B.help | C.follow | D.make |
3.A.sell | B.have | C.bring | D.taste |
4.A.filled | B.locked | C.abandoned | D.lost |
5.A.surprised | B.pleased | C.excited | D.worried |
6.A.dug | B.cleared | C.cut | D.laid |
7.A.delicious | B.safe | C.soft | D.ready |
8.A.left | B.nodded | C.waited | D.regretted |
9.A.far | B.funny | C.wrong | D.blind |
10.A.beach | B.driveway | C.hall | D.table |
11.A.application | B.apology | C.request | D.invitation |
12.A.hungry | B.dead | C.missing | D.wild |
13.A.wake up | B.get out | C.take off | D.break in |
14.A.mess | B.puzzle | C.fight | D.challenge |
15.A.recovered | B.retired | C.escaped | D.matured |
16.A.suffering | B.plans | C.madness | D.actions |
17.A.hands in pocket | B.nose in the air | C.hat in hand | D.feet on the ground |
18.A.indirectly | B.deliberately | C.cautiously | D.secretly |
19.A.replace | B.remember | C.reconsider | D.renew |
20.A.arrived | B.worked | C.ended | D.disappeared |