About once a month I have to go to Bedford for my work. One day I went into a
21 there to have something to
22 . The waiter took my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was
23 to go. The waiter
24 me my coat. Something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. I took a
25 look at the
26 . “Oh, you’ve brought
27 coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,
28 it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.”
“Oh, then I
29 someone has taken your coat and left his,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing
30 sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold
31 in it. The waiter and I
32 to go to the police station.
“Has anyone lost a ring?” I asked at the station.
“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in London.”
He
33 the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.
“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I
34 you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and
35 I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the
36 of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel, so how did my ring
37 in the coat?”
“Did anyone sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this
38 ,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here isn’t the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “No,” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and
39 our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the
40 coat away with him.”
| 小题1: | | A．hotel | B．restaurant | C．company | D．shop |
|
| 小题3: | | A．asked | B．glad | C．invited | D．ready |
|
| 小题4: | | A．showed | B．returned | C．brought | D．dressed |
|
| 小题5: | | A．special | B．close | C．usual | D．near |
|
| 小题6: | | A．waiter | B．box | C．coat | D．pocket |
|
| 小题7: | | A．no one else’s | B．another’s | C．other’s | D．someone else’s |
|
| 小题9: | | A．know | B．wonder | C．suppose | D．find |
|
| 小题10: | | A．appears | B．happens | C．meets | D．changes |
|
| 小题12: | | A．realized | B．thought | C．wanted | D．decided |
|
| 小题13: | | A．searched | B．remembered | C．telephoned | D．asked |
|
| 小题14: | | A．return | B．thank | C．pay | D．help |
|
| 小题16: | | A．thing | B．price | C．story | D．problem |
|
| 小题18: | | A．person | B．ring | C．box | D．coat |
|
| 小题19: | | A．after | B．before | C．like | D．as |
|
| 小题20: | | A．right | B．good | C．same | D．other |
|
