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  3. Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son’ s flat in central London. I should have

Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son’ s flat in central London. I should have

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问题    Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son’ s flat in central London. I should have paid a man to do it for me, but foolishly confident in my driving ability , I decided to hire a van and drive it myself. It was a Ford Transit 280, long and wide: you couldn’ t see out of the back. You never really knew how close you were to anything else on the road.
   Reversing in my home yard, I crashed into a small shed, causing permanent damage. At least I owned the shed.
   I loaded up the furniture and set out. By now it was rush hour. My nerves broke down, as I steered the huge van through ever-shifting lanes, across oncoming vehicles, between distances of buses, at last to Charlotte Street.
   Here, I found an available parking space. As I reversed into it, I noticed three people at a pavement cafe waving to me. I got out, trembling violently, like one who has just endured a stormy Atlantic crossing. " You’ ve shifted the car parked behind you three feet," they said, and it belonged to a disabled person. I examined the car. There were white scratches along its front bumper. It bore a disabled sign. So., now I was a bad driver and a bad man. Under the stern gaze of the three, I left an apologetic note on the damaged car’ s windscreen, giving my phone number.
   I unloaded the furniture, dripping with sweat. Wanting only to escape the monster, I drove the van back to its base on the Edgware Road. On arrival, the hire man told me I must fill it up with petrol before returning it. "Just charge me," I cried, still shaking with fear. He gazed at me with understanding. No doubt he’ d witnessed others in this state before. " How about I drive you to a petrol station, you fill up, and I drive her back?" he asked.
   He danced the great van through the traffic so casually that it would have shamed me if I had not been so grateful.
The writer felt regretful that he had_________.
选项 A、hired someone to drive for him
B、asked his son to do the delivery
C、rented a small van for his goods
D、delivered the furniture himself
答案D
解析 细节题。根据题干中的felt regretful可定位至文章第一段第二句，“I should have paid a man to do it for me，but foolishly confident in my driving ability．I decided to hire a van and drive it myself．”可知，作者本来可以雇一个人来帮助自己运送家具，但是由于盲目相信自己的开车技术，所以选择租一辆货车，然后自己开去伦敦。因此，D选项“自己运送家具”符合题意，为正确答案。A选项“雇人来开车”表述错误，B选项“让他的儿子来运送”在文中并未提及，C选项中的a small van“小货车”和下文中提到的“huge van”信息不符，均可排除。
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