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I remember quite clearly the first time I was really shaken by my wife’s intuition.
We were looking; for a second-hand car, and I had been much taken by a rather nice drop-head with a well-cared-for appearance.
"Well, she runs nicely,” I told my wife after the try-out. “Good start-up, engine sounds sweet, low mileage and the right price. What do you think"
"I don’t like it"
"Why not"
"I don’t know. There’s just something about lie salesman that I don’t believe. "
A few weeks after we had bought another car elsewhere, I happened to find out the history of the drop-head. It had been seriously damaged in a crash before we saw it, and cleverly done up. The car was, indeed, a very bad risk.
Of all the things about women that their husbands do not understand, perhaps the biggest question is this: How can she often be right about things of which she h
A. The ability to see through things.
B. The ability to make a quick decision.
C. The ability to pick out the best one among a number of things.
D. The ability to know something by using one’s feelings.

I remember quite clearly the first time I was really shaken by my wife’s intuition.
We were looking; for a second-hand car, and I had been much taken by a rather nice drop-head with a well-cared-for appearance.
"Well, she runs nicely,” I told my wife after the try-out. “Good start-up, engine sounds sweet, low mileage and the right price. What do you think"
"I don’t like it"
"Why not"
"I don’t know. There’s just something about lie salesman that I don’t believe. "
A few weeks after we had bought another car elsewhere, I happened to find out the history of the drop-head. It had been seriously damaged in a crash before we saw it, and cleverly done up. The car was, indeed, a very bad risk.
Of all the things about women that their husbands do not understand, perhaps the biggest question is this: How can she often be right about things of which she h
A. When they bought another car.
B. When he learned about the history of the drop-head.
C. When he realized she knew so much about cars.
D. When his wife spoke about the salesman.

I can clearly remember the first time I met Mr. Andrews, my old headmaster, (21) that was over twenty years ago. During the war, I was at school in the north of England. As soon as it ended, my family returned to London. There were not (22) schools left for children to go to and my father had to go from one school to another, asking them to (23) me as a pupil, I used to go with him but he had such a (24) time trying to persuade people even to see him that I seldom had to do any tests. We had been to all the schools near where we lived, but the more my father argued, the more (25) it became. (26) , we went to a school about five miles away from home. The headmaster kept us waiting for (27) an hour. (28) we were waiting, I (29) around at the school building, which was one of those old Victorian structures, completely out of date but still standing. I (30) hear the boys playing in the playground
A. but 
B. then 
C. as 
D. therefore