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
.
| 小题1: | | A．Weather | B．Railway | C．Fire | D．Police |
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| 小题2: | | A．bus | B．truck | C．taxi | D．train |
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| 小题3: | | A．turned | B．took | C．set | D．walked |
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| 小题4: | | A．call | B．signal | C．trick | D．arrangement |
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| 小题5: | | A．reward | B．praise | C．thanks | D．punishment |
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| 小题6: | | A．turning | B．running | C．starting | D．passing |
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| 小题7: | | A．continued | B．refused | C．began | D．stopped |
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| 小题8: | | A．saved | B．dead | C．awake | D．alive |
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| 小题9: | | A．find | B．attack | C．award | D．thank |
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| 小题10: | | A．laughed | B．visited | C．repeated | D．telephoned |
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| 小题11: | | A．exciting | B．pleasing | C．surprising | D．interesting |
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| 小题12: | | A．equally | B．truly | C．exactly | D．carefully |
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