The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “
1 station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a
2 at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance(救护车)，too. A man is badly wounded,” said a(n)
3 voice of a young woman.
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance
4 off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was
5 . No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty
6 !” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that mischievous (恶作剧)
7 and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a
8 when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came
9 towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly
10 to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver , was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had foretold (预言) on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was
11 at last. Later the police did whatever they could to
12 the woman who had
13 them, but failed.
It is really
14 that a prophecy(预言) should agree with the fact so
15 .
| 小题1: | | A．Weather | B．Railway | C．Fire | D．Police |
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| 小题2: | | A．bus | B．truck | C．taxi | D．train |
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| 小题3: | | A．sweet | B．anxious | C．beautiful | D．low |
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| 小题4: | | A．turned | B．took | C．started | D．walked |
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| 小题5: | | A．bad | B．satisfied | C．pleasant | D．fine |
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| 小题7: | | A．policeman | B．boy | C．woman | D．driver |
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| 小题8: | | A．reward | B．praise | C．thanks | D．punishment |
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| 小题9: | | A．turning | B．running | C．starting | D．passing |
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| 小题10: | | A．continued | B．refused | C．began | D．stopped |
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| 小题11: | | A．saved | B．dead | C．awake | D．alive |
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| 小题12: | | A．find | B．meet | C．punish | D．thank |
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| 小题13: | | A．laughed | B．telephoned | C．repeated | D．visited |
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| 小题14: | | A．exciting | B．surprising | C．pleasing | D．interesting |
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| 小题15: | | A．equally | B．truly | C．exactly | D．carefully |
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