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Charles Dickens was a famous nineteenth-century writer and the signature "Charles Dickens" is rarity enough to command a price.W
Charles Dickens was a famous nineteenth-century writer and the signature "Charles Dickens" is rarity enough to command a price.W
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Charles Dickens was a famous nineteenth-century writer and the signature "Charles Dickens" is rarity enough to command a price.When I saw a cheque【C1】_________(sign) by him, which was neatly framed and sitting in the window of an antique shop, I was anxious to know just how much of a【C2】p_________.Like most things in antique shops it provided an immediate curiosity from being unpriced.Four, say five pounds at the【C3】_________, I thought, since the piece of paper【C4】_________no more than six or seven hand-written words and was not after all, some page of Oliver Twister.
But how【C5】p _________ that renowned native of Portsea, near Portsmouth, would have been to know that even an order for money written by him was fetching as high as fifteen pounds.The frame was ordinary enough, but the item itself, I was told by a quiet spoken dealer, was【C6】"_________"(price).However, he indicated, you couldn’t make a living with a shop full of priceless articles, in consequence of which he was asking a trifling fifteen pounds.
When I explained I was interested only in the price he fell back on a device many dealers use today and suggested I buy it.on hire purchase.When I reaffirmed my price-only interest he 【C7】_________on my having a look at it.It was made【C8】o________for six pounds.How it got on to the antique market the dealer didn’t say.【C9】In________, he told me again how much he would like me to have it—for 15 pounds, in easy installments.Fortunately, the arrival of a new 【C10】cu________ended this growing threat of weekly payments and also, provided me with a getaway.
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price
解析
根据上下文可知,作者在一家古玩店里看到查尔斯·狄更斯签名的支票时,就很好奇它的价格。下句也提到,人们总是对古玩店里的物品价格感到好奇,结合提示字母可知,空格应填入price。
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