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 to30 000 reward money.

    Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked at the Roy al 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 p.m. the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing sun glasses 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 p. m.

    Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11: 30 p.m. 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 (戴上手铐).”

    1. The underlined phrase “be in line for” (Paragraph1) means ______.

Aget

Bbe paid

Cask for

Down

    2. Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber because ______.

Athe police called her

Bhe looked very strange

Che came to the hotel with little luggage

Dhe came to the hotel the day before New Year’s Eve

    3. Vicki’s heart missed a beat because _____.

Athe phone went again

Bshe would be famous

Cthe policemen had already arrived

Dshe saw 20 policemen in the car-park

    4. David Bieber was most probably handcuffed in _______.

Athe passage

Bthe man’s room

CVicki’s bedroom

Dthe 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.

A6

B8

C11

D14

 

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     Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
                                                                        ―Thomas Jefferson
     As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I pushed as hard for   1   as they
did.  
     A dramatic incident,   2  , following a game in which I was appointed as a referee (裁判),   3   my views on
victories and defeats. I was refereeing a league championship basketball game in New Rochelle, New York,
between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was coached by Dan O'Brien, Yonkers by Les Beck.
     The gym was   4   with audience, and the volume of noise made it   5   to hear. The game was well played
and   6   contested. Yonkers was   7   by one point as I   8   the clock and discovered there were only 30
seconds left to play.
     Yonkers,   9   the ball, passed off-shot-missed. New Rochelle recovered-pushed the ball up court - shot. The
ball   10   around the rim and off. The fans shouted with disappointment.  
     New Rochelle, the   11   team, recovered the ball, and tapped it in ( 拨进篮框) for what looked like victory.
The noise of whistles, screams and shouts was   12  . I took a quick look at the clock and saw that the game
was over. I hadn't heard the final buzzer (终场哨声) because of the noise. I  13  with the other official, but he
could not help me.  
     Still   14   help in this chaos, I approached the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said,"Mr. Covina,
the buzzer   15   as the ball rolled off the rim,  16   the tap-in was made."  
     I was in the unpleasant position of having to tell Coach O'Brien the   17   news."Dan," I said, " Yonkers won
the game."  
     His face clouded over. The young timekeeper came up. He said, "I'm sorry, Dad. The time ran out before the
final basket."  
     Suddenly, Coach O'Brien's face  18  . He said, "That's okay, Joe. You did what you had to do. I'm  19   of
you."  
     Turning to me, he said, "Al, I want you to meet my   20  , Joe."  
     The two of them then walked off the court together, shoulder to shoulder.

(     )1.  A. ability   
(     )2.  A. therefore  
(     )3.  A. changed   
(     )4.  A. located    
(     )5.  A. evident   
(     )6.  A. strongly 
(     )7.  A. leading   
(     )8.  A. stared at  
(     )9.  A. in place of
(     )10.  A. rolled    
(     )11.  A. winning  
(     )12.  A. deafening  
(     )13.  A. argued  
(     )14.  A. claiming  
(     )15.  A. took on    
(     )16.  A. after     
(     )17.  A. sad       
(     )18.  A. fixed up  
(     )19.  A. proud     
(     )20.  A. fellow    

B. direction       
B. however         
B. held               
B. equipped           
B. important         
B. closely           
B. falling         
B. glared at        
B. in possession of   
B. centered           
B. host            
B. annoying         
B. quarreled       
B. receiving          
B. went on         
B. instantly      
B. interesting      
B. lit up           
B. accused         
B. student          

C. victory        
C. moreover       
C. shared        
C. crowded       
C. likely        
C. successfully  
C. scoring       
C. glanced at    
C. in face of    
C. rocked         
C. champion      
C. disturbing    
C. checked                
C. giving        
C. took off      
C. before         
C. strange     
C. cleaned up    
C.   independent 
C. son            

D. honesty        
D. thus           
D. conveyed       
D. covered        
D. impossible     
D. amusingly      
D. losing         
D. aimed at       
D. in favor of    
D. hung           
D. guest          
D. disgusting                    
D. compromised    
D. seeking        
D. went off       
D. when           
D amazing         
D. showed up      
D. embarrassed    
D. friend         

Treasure hunts (寻宝) have excited people' s imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson' s Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues (线索) found in a book when he wrote a children' story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of "red herrings", or false clues, to mislead them.

Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Al- though he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic (逻辑), not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: "One of Six to Eight" under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses(十字架) in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth ??3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

1. The underlined word "them" (paragraph 1 ) refers to________.

A. red herrings                               B. treasure hunts

C. Henry VIII's six wives                      D. readers of Masquerade

2. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?

  A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill.          B. Stevenson's Treasure Island.

C. Katherine of Aragon.                      D. Williams' hometown.

3. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built________.

  A. to tell about what happened in 1773     B. to show respect for Henry VIII' s first wife

C. to serve as a roadsign in Ampthill Park         D. to inform people where the gold hare was

4. Which of the following describes Roberts' logic in searching for the hare?

a. Henry VIII' s six wives

b. Katherine's burial place at Kimbolton

c. Williams' childhood in Ampthill

d. Katherine of Aragon

e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

A. a -b- c- e- d                          B. d- b- c- e- a

C. a- d- b- c- e                               D. b- a- e- c- d

Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of people in at least 100 countries. It’s one of the   1   sports in the world. It began in 1891.

Dr. James A. Naismith, the   2  of basketball, was a teacher of a YMCA training   3   . It trained the people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were    4  about the low attendance during the   5  months. They  6    that people didn’t attend then  7 the school did not have a good sports __8___ in winter. So they asked Dr. Naismith for   9   . He came up with a new indoor game.

Naismith studied games being played at that  10  . He found that al the most  ___11____games used a ball. So a ball would be part of his new game, he decided. But __12____ the ball or hitting it would be too rough for  13  . So he put two  14  up on the poles. The players had to try to   15  a ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen  16   for the game. Twelve of them are still in  _17____today. Just seven  18 after the game began professional basketball teams were  19  . And that’s how basketball was   20  .

1. A. most beautiful B. most useful  C. most necessary  D. best known

2. A. friend    B. official     C. father      D. discoverer

3. A. school    B. game      C. team      D. club

4. A. interested  B. worried     C. eager       D. dangerous

5. A. summer   B. spring      C. autumn     D. winter

6. A. expected  B. hoped      C. talked      D. felt

7. A. that    B. because     C. so        D. though

8. A. suit     B. team      C. progress     D. program

9. A. a sport    B. help      C. money     D. students

10. A. game    B. school     C. time      D. place

11. A. popular   B. practical    C. excellent    D. skilled

12. A. throwing   B. casting     C. kicking     D. catching

13. A. students   B. young people  C. sports     D. indoors

14. A. bags    B. baskets     C. flags       D. sings

15. A. push     B. throw     C. send      D. kick

16. A. persons    B. poles      C. rules      D. balls

17. A. use     B. value      C. fact       D. virtue

18. A. minutes   B. hours      C. days      D. years

19. A. formed    B. called     C. dismissed     D. stationed

20. A. come into being B. discovered  C. take place    D. born

 

In spite of the instructions he had been given,Tommy did not hurry straight round to Mrs. Blakey’s house with the note.Reaching the toy shop window with its decorated Christmas tree.he could not tear himself away from it until he had spent ten minutes staring at the gift he most wanted.Where the road began to run downhill to Mrs. Blakey’s house,he met some of his friends who were throwing snowballs.He joined in the fight,and by the time it finished.another twenty minutes had gone by.Ten more minutes were lost looking for the note for Mrs. Blakey,which had somehow dropped from his pocket during the fight.When he finally found it, it was not only very wet,but he found that part of it was torn away and missing That meant a further search,but without results So Tommy reached Mrs. Blakey’s house nearly an hour late.carrying a dirty piece of paper that contained only the words:

    —for tea this afternoon—important to talk

    about—u.If it is convenient,— tell Tommy:

    otherwise.—Hr house at;four o’clock—

Yours sincerely.

Al ice Hendry

    Mrs. Blakey puzzled over the note for a while,then,imagining she knew what the missing words were,told Tommy to tell his mother it would be all right

    Tommy arrived home not long before four o’clock,only to find his mother very angry and already putting her hat on.“You naughty boy, where have you been?”she cried, and without waiting for all answer,“What did Mrs. Blakey say?”

    Tommy told her.

    “All right, you’d better come with me,”Mrs. Hendry said.And so once again Tommy found himself oil the downhill road to Mrs. Blakey’s.

    At about the same moment that Mrs. Hendry and her son Tommy reached Mrs. Blakey’s door, Mrs. Blakey herself, having taken a different road,was waiting outside the Hendry’s home.wondering why there was no answer to her knock.Who could blame her for thinking that the torn note was all invitation to tea at the Hendry’s,instead of which Mrs. Hendry had in fact been asking herself out to tea with Mrs. Blakey’s.

1.Tommy’s mother told him __________.

    A.not to drop the note on his way to Mrs. Blakey’s house

    B.to look at the toy-shop window.

    C.to hurry straight round to Mrs. Blakey’s house with the note,

    D.to look for the note

2.Which of the following notes did Mrs. Hendry send to Mrs. Blakey?

    A.Dear Mrs. Blakey,

       Will it be all right if l visit you for tea this afternoon? I have something important to talk about with you If it is inconvenient,tell Tommy;otherwise,I shall come to see you at your house at four o’clock.

Yours sincerely,

Alice Hendry

    B.Dear Mrs. Blakey,

       I should be very glad if you would come here for tea this afternoon I have something important to talk about with you,If it is inconvenient,tell Tommy;otherwise I shall expect to see you at our house at four o’clock.

Yours sincerely,

Alice Hendry

    C.Dear Mrs. Blakey,

      Tommy would be glad if you could come here for tea this afternoon.There is a gun that he thinks is important to talk about with you If it is inconvenient,tell Tommy;otherwise we shall expect to see you at our house at four o’clock

Yours sincerely,

Alice Hendry

    D.Dear Mrs. Blakey,

    I should be grateful if Tommy could stay with you for tea this afternoon.I want to go out as I have something to talk about with Mrs. Morris.If it is inconvenient,tell Tommy;otherwise,I will send him to your house at four o’clock.

Yours sincerely,

Alice Hendry

3.When Tommy returned home,his mother was very angry because ________.

    A.she was worried that it was too late for them to reach Mrs. Blakey’s house

    B.the naughty boy was an hour late for supper.

    C.He lost the note on his way to Mrs. Blakey’s house

    D.He came home without a reply from Mrs. Blakey

4.Which of the following is Not true according to the story.

    A.After giving the note to Mrs. Blakey, Tommy hurried straight home.

    B.Tommy looked for the missing part of the note but failed in finding it.

    C.Mrs. Blakey inferred correctly what the incomplete note meant

    D.Mrs. Blakey expected to find Mrs. Hendry at home at four o’clock

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