单选题 I once went to a town in the north of England on business.
It was about 7:30 in the evening when I reached the hotel. The manageress, a strict old lady of about 60, showed me to my room. When I asked her what time dinner was, she said there was only one sitting at 6:30, and Ihad 1 it.
"Never mind," I said. "I"m not very 2 I"ll just have a drink in the bar and a sandwich."
"Bar!" she 3 her voice. "This is a respectable hotel, young man. If you want 4 , you must go somewhere else." She spoke 5 a glass of beer was a dangerous drug.
I went to a bar and had some beer and sandwiches and then went to the cinema. At about 11:30 I 6 Everything was in darkness. I knocked at the door, but nothing happened. The 7 sound was the church clock opposite, which suddenly struck the half-hour with such 8 that it made me jump. 9 a window opened upstairs. The old "lady 10 and asked me what was going on. I explained who I was and she let me 11 after ten minutes" wait. She was in her nightdress. She told me seriously that guests were 12 to be back in the hotel by 11 o"clock. I went to bed but could not sleep. Every quarter of an hour the church clock struck and at midnight the whole hotel shook with the noise. Just before dawn, I finally 13 .
When I arrived at 14 , everyone else had nearly 15 and there was not enough coffee to go round.
"Did you 16 well, young man.9" the old lady asked.
" 17 , I don"t think I could go through 18 night in that room," I replied. "I hardly slept at all."
"That"s because you were 19 all night drinking!" she said angrily, putting 20 to the conversation.