选择题 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.

Burchill was   21________   at the hotel on business and planning to   22________   some friends in the area. They had asked him to   23_________   some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he   24_______   a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was   25________   that it would be too warm, he   26________   it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was   27________   and well chilled (冷却) and he   28________   .

That's when things went   29________   . “I remember walking down the long   30________   and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls,” Burchill said in a recent letter of   31___________   to the 4-star hotel. "The seagulls immediately went   32________   . They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to   33_______   at the same time, and pepperoni—everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real   34______   .Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).“I have   35_______   and I admit responsibility of my   36_______   ,” he said in the letter. “I come to you,   37_______   , to apologize for the-damage I had   38______   caused and to ask you to   39________   my lifetime ban from the hotel.”His letter   40_____   . Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.

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【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】