One of Britain’s bravest women told
yesterday how she helped to catch suspected(可疑的) police killer David Bieber--and was thanked
with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for
a share of up to ￡30,000
reward money.
Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important
role in ending the nationwide manhunt.
Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel
for four years, told of her terrible experience when she had to steal into
Bieber’s bedroom and to watch him secretly. Then she waited alone for three
hours while armed police prepared to storm the building.
She said,” I was very nervous. But when I
opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen lined up in the car park I was
so glad they were there.”
The alarm had been raised because Vicki
became suspicious(怀疑) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve
with little luggage and wearing
sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his
face. She said, He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye
contact(接触). Vicki,
the only employee on duty, called her bosses Margaret, 64, and husband Stan
McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm.Officers from Northumbria Police
called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure
that this was the wanted man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki every 15
minutes.
“It was about ten past two in the morning when
the phone went again and a policeman said ‘Would you go and make yourself known
to the armed officers outside?’ My heart missed a beat.”
Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers
through passages and staircases to the top floor room and handed over the key.
“I realized that my bedroom window
overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to
watch. I could not see into the man’s room,
but I could see the passage. The police kept shouting at the man to come out
with his hands showing. Then suddenly he must have come out because they
shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed(带上手铐).”
1.The underlined phrase “be in line for”
(paragraph 1) means _______.
A. get B.
be paid C. ask for D. own
2.Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber
because _______.
A. the police called her B.
he looked very strange
C. he came to the hotel with little luggage
D. he came to the hotel the day before New
Year’s Eve
3.Vicki’s heart missed a beat because
_________.
A. the phone went
again B. she would be famous
C. the policemen had already arrived
D. she saw 20 policemen in the car park
4.David Bieber was most probably handcuffed
in ________.
A. the passage B.
the man’s room C. Vicki’s bedroom D. the top floor room
5. The whole event probably lasted about _______
hours from the moment Bieber came to the hotel to the arrival of some armed
officers.
A. 6 B. 8 C. 11 D. 14
