We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers. Our car was full of   1     inside. On the way home my wife saw a bookshelf outside a fur-niture （家具） shop. “Buy it，” she said at once. “We’ll   2   it home on the roof-rack （车顶架）。 I’ve always wanted one like that.”

　　Ten minutes __3__  we were back with the bookshelf. 1 drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening. The   4   even stopped traffic to let us through.

　　After a rime my wife said， “There’s a long line of cars   5  . Why don’t they overtake （超车）？”

　　Just at that time a police car did overtake， and two officers inside asked us to   6    their car through the busy traffic. The police car stopped at our village church（教堂）。

　　One of the officers came to me and said，  “Do you need any more   7   now？” I didn’t quite un-derstand. So I said， “You’ve been very   8  . We live just down the road.”

　　He was looking at our things， first at the flow-ers， then at the bookshelf. “Well， well，” he said and   9  ， “It’s a bookshelf you’ve got here！ We thought it was— er， something else.”

　　My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I under-stood  10   the police drove here.

　　1. A. books B. flowers C. fruits D.vegetables

　　2. A. take B. carry C. send D. hold

　　3. A. before B. after C. later D. ago

　　4. A. drivers B. police C. cleaners D. sellers

　　5. A. behind B. before C. beside D. back

　　6. A. take B. follow C. move D. drive

　　7. A. time B. money C. help D. water

　　8. A. kind B. clever C. polite D. popular

　　9. A. laughed B. cried C. shouted D. jumped

　　10. A. how B. what C. who D. why

　　KEY： 1-5 BBCBA  6-10 BCAAD