[填空题]When the sun was setting, my car (break) ______down near a remote village.

[单项选择]When the Dow rockets 300 points or the stocks of retailers, say, get decimated, I devour the news. Here’s my admission: I’m a buy-and-hold investor, and a lazy one at that. My employer prohibits us news folks to trade equities on a short-term basis, but even if it didn’t, I’d still buy and hold.
The bulk of my portfolio is in two retirement accounts, and neither stock-market gyrations nor major financial earthquakes prompt me to tweak my allocations. I simply hold a fairly routine mix of low-cost U.S. and international-stock mutual funds, plus a bond fund, and I stick to it.
Sure, the markets get volatile but I figure that, eventually, average historical returns will work in my favor. And, to my mind, stock-market trading, if you’re not spending many hours a week working on it, is little more than a guessing game.
The fact is, a buy-and-hold investor with a decently diversified portfolio should celebrate her ability to remain firm in the face of financial-news tidal wave
A. Because his employer prohibits him to trade equities on a short-term basis.
B. Because he believes that long-term return will balance out short-term fluctuation.
C. Because he is misguided by the loyalty to the idea of "buy and hold."
D. Because he is an active investor and keeps an eye on stock markets every day.

[填空题]The author was talking to his friend when a car came screaming up the road towards the courts.

[单项选择]What was the man doing when the car almost hit him
A. He was talking to a friend.
B. He was reading a newspaper.
C. He was thinking of something important.
D. He was reading an interesting novel.