1 . The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “
____station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a
____at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious 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
____off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty
____!” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a
____when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came
____towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly
____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 predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was
____at last. Later the police did whatever they could to
____the woman who had
____them, but failed.
It is really
____that a prediction should agree with the fact so
____1. A.Weather | B.Railway | C.Fire | D.Police |
2. A.bus | B.truck | C.taxi | D.train |
3. A.turned | B.took | C.set | D.walked |
4. A.call | B.signal | C.trick | D.arrangement |
5. A.reward | B.praise | C.thanks | D.punishment |
6. A.turning | B.running | C.starting | D.passing |
7. A.continued | B.refused | C.began | D.stopped |
8. A.saved | B.dead | C.awake | D.alive |
9. A.find | B.attack | C.award | D.thank |
10. A.laughed | B.visited | C.repeated | D.telephoned |
11. A.exciting | B.pleasing | C.surprising | D.interesting |
12. A.equally | B.truly | C.exactly | D.carefully |