The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California , USA.
“Police station? A train for Santa Fe hit a truck at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please ____21____ there at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly ____22_____.” said an anxious voice of a young woman. “ And you know I am the ….”
“Please wait! Hi! Hi!” the policeman kept on ____23____ though the line was cut off. Within a minute , a police car and an ambulance car started off. Before long they got to the crossing, but they ___24____everything was fine. No accident, no wounded man.
“What a dirty trick!” said the policeman ____25____. “ We must find out that bad___26_____ and …..”They were just talking about the _____27___when they heard the whistle of a train which was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came ___28_____towards them, too. When the truck was passing the crossing, it suddenly ____29___ to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the policemen __30_______, the train hit the truck heavily and ___31____it dozens of meters away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was ___32_____ out of the damaged truck, he was seriously wounded just as the young woman had told on the phone. As he was taken to the ___33______ in time, his life was saved
Later the police did whatever they could to _____34___the woman who had telephoned them. It turned out that the woman was a very excellent police officer working far in the neighboring state, who had got the first-hand ____35_____ of this crime as described above.
| 小题2: | | A．beaten | B．treated | C．needed | D．injured |
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| 小题3: | | A．talking | B．laughing | C．crying | D．shouting |
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| 小题4: | | A．realized | B．found | C．proved | D．wondered |
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| 小题5: | | A．nervously | B． Disappointedly | C．angrily | D．surprisingly |
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| 小题6: | | A．man | B．woman | C．child | D．driver |
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| 小题7: | | A．trial | B．warning | C．program | D．punishment |
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| 小题8: | | A．passing | B．turning | C．running | D．rolling |
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| 小题9: | | A．refused | B．stopped | C．continued | D．began |
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| 小题10: | | A．above | B．below | C．alive | D．present |
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| 小题11: | | A．struck | B．met | C．caught | D．missed |
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| 小题12: | | A．pushed | B．helped | C．let | D．asked |
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| 小题13: | | A．company | B．house | C．station | D．hospital |
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| 小题14: | | A．meet | B．punish | C．find | D．arrest |
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| 小题15: | | A．information | B．result | C．advice | D．news |
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