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London Thursday July 26(Reuters)--Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to propose to her.The problem is that she flew in the opposite direction.
He and Amy Dolby even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting-room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights.
Dolby,heartbroken when she arrived at Johnstone’s Sydney apartment to find he had flown to London,told the Times:“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us.He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe,she was greeted by Johnstone’s astonished flatmate asking what she was doing there.
“The terrible truth dawned when I found that Lan’s rucksack and most of his clothes were missing.I sat on the end of his bed and cried my eyes out.And that really annoyed me,”she said.
Johnstone,a 27-year-old bricklayer,had taken a year off to travel round Australia.But he was missing Dolby,a 26-year-old secretary,so much he got a job on a Sydney building site and started saving for a surprise.
He then flew home to Britain and went to her apartment armed with an engagement ring,champagne and flowers.
“I really missed Amy and I’d been thinking about her all the time.I thought she was winding me up when she phoned me from Australia.”he said.
Johnstone then asked Dolby to marry him on the phone.“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,”she said.
Dolby was given a short tour of Sydney by Johnstone’s friends and Johnstone had to stay in Britain for two weeks because he could not change his ticket.
【小题1】According to the text,it seemed that       .

A.Johnstone and Dolby could have seen each other in the same airport waiting-room in Singapore
B.the couple pretended not to see each other in the same airport waiting-room in Singapore
C.the young lovestruck couple had both intended to propose to each other
D.Dolby stayed longer in Sydney than Johnstone stayed in Britain
【小题2】We can learn from the text that        .
A.Johnstone was not as impulsive as Dolby
B.Johnstone got a job in Sydney in order to start saving money for a surprise to Dolby
C.Dolby was heartbroken because someone was playing a cruel joke on her
D.Dolby was greeted by Johnstone’s flatmate at the airport
【小题3】When Johnstone asked her to marry him on the phone,Dolby didn’t know whether to laugh or cry because she had a mixed feeling of        .
A.excitement,anger and shyness
B.sadness,happiness and surprise
C.love,hatred and nevousness
D.cheer,regret and annoyance
【小题4】Which of the following shows the right order of what happened in the story?
a.Johnstone flew back to Britain to propose to his girlfriend,Amy Dolby.
b.Johnstone started working at a Sydney building site.
c.Johnstone went to Amy’s apartment in Britain with an engagement ring.
d.Johnstone proposed to Dolby over the phone.
e.They were waiting for their connecting flight in the airport in Singapore.
f.Dolby called Johnstone from Australia.
A.b—a—d—e—c—fB.c—a—b—e—f—d
C.b—a—e—c—f—dD.b—a—f—e—c—d

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The most frightening words in the English language are “our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.” I looked down at the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do you do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That’s right, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.

“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down, it won’t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said, “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They are still flying, aren’t they?”

“I can’t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington.” I suggested.

“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn’t know,” she said, pointing at the desk screen. “Only IT knows. It can’t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in line. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

1.The word “down” in the sentence ‘Our computer is down.’ means _____________.

A.falling            B.downcast          C.drop             D.dead

2.The best title of the article is _________.

A.Asking the Computer

B.The Computer of the Airport

C.The Most Frightening Words

D.When the Computer Is Down

3.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A.She could answer the passengers’ questions

B.She could do nothing.

C.She could sell a ticket.

D.She could write out a ticket.

 

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