(At Mr. Best’s store, Mr. Best was talking with a policeman)
Mr. Best: They robbed (抢劫) me of diamonds! I just called my insurance company (保险公司). They’re sending a man here to decide how much money to pay me for the diamonds.
Policeman: Tell me what happened.
Mr. Best: I went to the store alone. As soon as I opened the door, two men rushed in. The one who had blond hair looked at me angrily with a gun in his hand, he told me to open the safe. I was scared, so I opened it and gave him my diamonds. Then they tied me to a chair.
After they left, I tried hard to free myself from the ropes and called you.” Policeman: What did the two men look like?
Mr. Best: One of them was thin and the other was tall and fat. They wore masks over their whole heads with only three little holes for their eyes and mouths.
(Just then, the insurance man arrived.)
Policeman: Don’t worry, you don’t have to pay Mr. Best anything. He is lying about the robbers.
He took the diamonds himself.
21. According to Mr. Best, he was going to ________ when the two robbers came in.
A.start his business | B.have dinner | C.clean the diamonds | D.call the policeman |
22. The underlined word “
safe” in 2nd paragraph probably means ________ in Chinese.
23. The policeman believed Mr. Best lied because he made a mistake about the robbers’ ________.
A.height | B.build | C.hair | D.voice |