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I had just picked up my new car, a very beautiful automobile if you’re into cars. A few months later, I was involved in an 21 . That new and very beautiful car was destroyed.

It was clearly not my 22 . The other guy was so busy on his cell phone that he went right through a red light and knocked into the passenger side of my car. It was even 23 because my niece was asleep on the back seat and her father, my brother, was in the front passenger seat. He was not 24 , to say the least.

The police arrived and began taking statements. I 25 that my speed had been up to about 55kmph. “So you were going about 50kmph…” he said.

“No, I said I was doing about 55kmph,” I said.

“Right, so you were doing about 50kmph…” again he 26 .

In a slightly 27 tone because I felt I wasn’t being heard, I said: “No! I was doing about 55kmph!”

“OK, if that’s 28 you want it,” this time the officer simply replied.

I didn’t 29 it at the time, but I was shooting myself in the foot. My insurance company paid me for the damages to my car. 30 , I totally missed the boat on the other driver’s insurance company.

The city speed limit is 50km. I 31 getting 50 percent less than I would have from the other guy’s insurance company because I had 32 I was doing 55km.

It suddenly 53 me that the traffic policeman had been trying to help me out. He hadn’t 34 about the 5kmph; he had known 35 about the insurance that I had not.

I thought about what had 36 over and over again. I might have carried on insisting that I told the 37 , but I could at least have said “Thank you” to him 38 acting so rudely. After all, he had been trying to help me out.

Sometimes the 39 thing to do is to let other people talk while you simply shut up and listen. Never forget --- to 40 , you have to be able to listen.

21. A. accident B. event C. incident D. exam

22. A. effort B. fault C. attempt D. intention

23. A. luckier B. angrier C. scarier D. sadder

24. A. frightened B. nervous C. happy D. worried

25. A. argued B. explained C. shouted D. introduced

26. A. reminded B. required C. resisted D. repeated

27. A. contented B. surprised C. puzzled D. annoyed

28. A. the speed B. the result C. the fact D. the way

29. A. believe B. imagine C. realize D. think

30. A. However B. Therefore C. Besides D. Furthermore

31. A. gave up B. ended up C. took up D. made up