A. 从下列单词中选择恰当的词填空，每个词只能用一次，请在答题卡上作答。

sense    disappointed     recently  sort        popular success    so                large    laughing  except

Geoffrey Hampden has a  51  circle of friends and is very  52at parties. Everybody admires him for his  53  of humor—everybody, that is,  54   his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.  55  one of Geoffrey's closed friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception. This is the  56 of thing that Geoffrey loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great57 . As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffrey was a little  58  by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn't. Geoffrey asked her why this was  59  and she told him that she did not like to see so many people  60  at him.

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