1. (2023九下·嘉兴月考) 阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more1than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it cost him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better2 it. He asked among his friends to see 3 anyone was particularly anxious to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so4of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was upset when they met one evening, and said, "What's up, Dave?

Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may 5more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's 6 was reasonable, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "For sale: small car, uses very little oil, only two owners. Bargain at 50. "

For two days after the advertisement first came out, there was no 7. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry (询问). A man rang up and said he would like to8 him about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling 9. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next 10would be suitable or not. "Fine, the man said," and I'll bring my wife. We plan to go for a ride in it to 11 it. "

The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave12 the car in the square outside his front door, planning to wait there for the people who had answered his 13. Even Dave had to admit that the car really looked like a wreck (残骸). Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He 14 Dave's car and then said, "Have you reported this15 to us yet, sir?" After hearing the words, what could Dave say?