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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Dear Mr Jones,
I expect you may be slightly surprised to
receive a letter from someone living as near as your nextdoor neighbor, but I
have to raise a subject so that it will be easier for me to discuss in writing.
You may have noticed that I have a 1 of apple trees running alongside the fence
that 2 our two gardens. You may also have taken 3 in the frequent sight of your two children 4 on your lawn directly by the fence. And you
may also have 5 that my apple trees, so to speak, bend over
the fence and seem to 6 your children with interest.
It is only natural that your children
should sometimes seem to return that 7.
And it is not only natural, 8, I acknowledge, quite legal, for them
occasionally to show that interest by 9 all the apples that hang over on 10 side of the fence.
But to be plain with you, Mr Jones, I am
tired 11 seeing your children, day after day, tear the
branches off the side of every one of my apple trees, and leave my trees
looking 12 a
battle had been fought on one side of them. I am, if anything, even more tired
of waking up these fine autumn 13, to find even the apples on my side of
the fence 14 in
number. I know this is the work of your children, since last night I was woken
at midnight by the 15 they were making 16 one of my trees, and (as they may have told
you) chased them home.
While I am on the subject, I am at least
grateful to you for keeping your bonfires on the far side of your garden this
year. Last year neither I 17 your children had any apples, because the
smoke from your bonfire destroyed all the flowers 18the
apples had time to form. I very much hope that next year—for the first time
since I came to this village—I shall have my apples, and your children 19 have theirs and that the sight of the line of
apple trees will be 20 pride to us both.
