文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。叙述了公安局接到了一位妇女的报案,等到警察和救护车到达报案现场时,却发现没有事故,正想回去查找一下这个报假案的人,这时听到了火车的鸣笛声,不一会就出现了报案人所讲的惊险的一幕,卡车司机由于得到了及时的救助,保住了生命。这真是一个令人难以置信的预言。
The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, the US. "_________ station? A train for Santa Fe collided(相撞) a _________ 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) _________ 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 _________. No collision, no wounded man.
"What a dirty _________!" said the policeman angrily. "We must find out that mischievous(恶意的)_________ 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 foretold(预言) 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 prophecy(预言) 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.sweet | B.anxious | C.beautiful | D.low |
4. A.turned | B.took | C.started | D.walked |
5. A.bad | B.satisfied | C.pleasant | D.fine |
6. 7. A.policeman | B.boy | C.woman | D.driver |
8. A.reward | B.praise | C.thanks | D.punishment |
9. A.turning | B.running | C.starting | D.passing |
10. A.continued | B.refused | C.began | D.stopped |
11. A.saved | B.dead | C.awake | D.alive |
12. A.find | B.meet | C.punish | D.thank |
13. A.laughed | B.telephoned | C.repeated | D.visited |
14. A.exciting | B.surprising | C.pleasing | D.interesting |
15. A.equally | B.truly | C.exactly | D.carefully |