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About a month ago I was present on a serious occasion where I heard the r

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问题        About a month ago I was present on a serious occasion where I heard the reading of a will. I can remember one passage that particularly struck me. It ran something 【C1】______ this.
     "And I direct that $ 10,000 be 【C2】______ to old William B, whom I have wished to help for many years, 【C3】______ always put off doing so." It 【C4】______ the last words of a dying man. But the story does not 【C5】______ there. When the lawyers came to 【C6】______ out the bequest (遗赠), they discovered that old William B had 【C7】______ , too, and so the 【C8】______ deed was lost.
       I felt rather 【C9】______ about that. It seemed to me a most regrettable. 【C10】______ that William should not have had his $10,000 just 【C11】______ somebody kept putting 【C12】______giving it to him. And from 【C13】______ accounts, William could have done with the 【C14】______ . But I am sure 【C15】______ there are thousands of kindly little deeds waiting to be 【C16】______ today, which are being put off 【C17】______ later.
      George Herbert, in praise of good intentions, 【C18】______ that "One of these days is better than 【C19】______ of those days." But I say that 【C20】______ is better than all. [br] 【C2】______
选项 A、consumed
B、paid
C、cost
D、devoted
答案 D
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