Complete this story. Choose the best word for each blank. (Items 1 – 8)
     Athur Brent used to drive to his office in the centre of Birmingham. But he is a man of ….1…. and he decided it was not fair to take a car with only one ….2…. into the centre of the city every morning and out again every evening. People would have to stop being so selfish it life in big cities was to be ……3….. He spoke to some friends who live in the suburbs near him. But it was no use asking them to share a car; none of them wanted to be …..4…. on anyone else. So he bought himself a bicycle.
     At first he enjoyed …..5…. to work. His friends could not help laughing at him but he did not …..6… ; he often got to work or home again before them.
     One day in autumn, he had a ….7…. half way to work in a storm. A friend in a car stopped and offered him a ….8…. When Arthur asked him to help him repair the bike, the friend laughted, said he had better things to do and drove off.