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 man. “ 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.

1.A ．call      B． come            C． go          D． notice

2.A ． beaten  B． treated         C． needed      D． injured

3.A ．talking       B． laughing        C． crying      D． shouting

4.A.．realized      B．found            C． proved      D． wondered

5.Ａ．nervously　  B．  Disappointedly  C． angrily D． surprisingly

6.A． man       B． woman           C． child               D． driver

7.A． trial     B． warning         C． program     D． punishment

8.A．passing        B． turning         C． running     D． rolling

9.A．refused        B． stopped         C． continued  D． began

10.A.．above        B． below           C． alive           D． present

11.A.．struck       B． met             C． caught      D． missed

12.A.．pushed       B． helped          C． let         D． asked

13.A ．company      B． house           C． station     D． hospital

14.A ．meet         B． punish          C． find            D． arrest

15.A.．information      B． result          C． advice      D． news

 

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　　Susan Cleveland is the young president of a candy company in the city of Chicago. Her father began the company in the 1960s. He died three years ago. Now, the company belongs to Susan.

　　Susan, 1 , did not have any jobs before becoming head of the company. She just finished the college.

　　The employees （雇员） became 2 concerned during Susan's first months 3 the job. Mr Cleveland had been a 4 leader. But Susan permitted 5 employees to make their own 6 . One employee said , “Old Mr Cleveland 7 told us what to do. He kept people on a short leash. 8 the company did well. ” What does a “short leash” mean? A leash is a kind of rope. We use a leash 9 our pet dogs. The leash keeps the dog from 10 away 11 getting into trouble.

　　Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her 12 close control. The person can't make many decisions for himself or herself. Ms Cleveland does not keep her workers on short leash. 13 she encourages them to get 14 ways to do business. For example, her secretary proposed （建议） an idea. She said the company should 15 a sum of money as a prize to the best student in the high school 16 the factory. The winner could use the prize money to study at a university. Ms Cleveland 17 the idea. After the prize was announced, 18 who lived in the area of the factory began to buy 19 of the company's candy. Local newspapers wrote about the competition. Business 20 .

　　Ms Cleveland made her secretary the company's first Director of Public Relations. The former secretary was very pleased.

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　　Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a rainstorm with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written 1 that frees me from 2 when it's raining.

　　For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third night, it wasn't raining at all. I 3 the sign to the announcer, and the band began 4 my music.

　　The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from being 5 about the wetness.

　　And so we came to the head-in-mouth 6 . When I pulled Leo's mouth open raising his face and nose to the 7 . I noticed that the muscles (肌肉) of his jaws (下、下颚) were tense. Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo become 8 all over.

　　My head was in now. I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw 9 to let me go. But then nothing happened.

　　I 10 again on his jaw. Leo's mouth was like a steel trap. I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's 11 . But already, with my face 12 in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe, I knew what had happened; with the 13 beating on his face, Leo had forgotten me. I heard the gunfire again.

　　I awoke with an oxygen mask 14 my face, and a doctor was working over me. “You're 15 ,” said the doctor, “as soon as you went faint (头晕的), the lion 16 you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!

　　By then it had 17 raining. I called Leo back and opened his jaw. “Don't be a fool!” the doctor said, 18 I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I gave Leo the tap on the jawand he obeyed immediately.

　　Yet, when I tried to trick again the next time, Leo 19 . I believed he was unwilling to 20 me a second time. I never did the trick again.

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