If you have a telephone in your own house you will admit that it 1.____ to ring when you least want it to ring -- when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are 2.____ going out, or when you are in your bath. Are you strong-minded 3.____ to ignore it, to say to yourself, "Ah, well it will all be the same in a hundred years' time"? You are not. You think there 4.____ some important news or message for you. Have you never rushed 5.____ from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong 6.____? You were told the truth. In my opinion all telephone numbers are wrong numbers. If, of course, your telephone rings you decide 7.____ it, then you will have to listen to an idiotic bell ringing ringing in what is supposed to be the 8.____ of your own house. You might as well buy a bicycle bell ring it yourself.

    Suppose you 9.____ the telephone when it rings, suppose that, for once, somebody has an important message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will 10.____ you sooner or later. 

1. A. likely  B. tends  C. inclined  D. tries