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 .

1.A. WeatherB. Railway C. Fire D. Police

2.A. busB. truckC. taxiD. train

3.A. turnedB. tookC. setD. walked

4.A. callB. signalC. trickD. arrangement

5.A. rewardB. praiseC. thanksD. punishment

6.A. turningB. runningC. startingD. passing

7.A. continuedB. refusedC. beganD. stopped

8.A. savedB. deadC. awakeD. alive

9.A. findB. attackC. awardD. thank

10.A. laughedB. visitedC. repeatedD. telephoned

11.A. excitingB. pleasingC. surprisingD. interesting

12.A. equally B. truly C. exactly D. carefully

 

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

6.B

7.B

8.A

9.A

10.D

11.C

12.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是一位女性準確預測事故，并向警察局報案，及時挽救了人的性命的故事。

1.1】D 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)第一句The telephone rang in the police station可知警察局里的電話響起，那么接線員首先應該標明身份：這里是警察局。故D正確。

2.

3.Turn off關閉；take off脫掉，起飛，受歡迎；set off出發(fā)；一分鐘之內，一輛警車和一輛救護車立刻就出發(fā)前往出事地點救人去了。

4.

5.5】D 名詞辨析。A獎勵；B表揚；C感謝；D懲罰；他們還沒有說出一些懲罰的話，在這時他們聽見了火車的聲音傳了過來。

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.10】D 動詞辨析。A嘲笑；B參觀；C重復；D打電話；根據(jù)第一句可知這位女性是打電話給警察局報案的，故D正確。

11.11】C 詞義辨析。A令人興奮的；B令人高興的；C令人驚訝的；D有趣的；這位女性能夠準確預測這樣的一件事情真是令人驚訝。

12.12】C 副詞辨析。A平等地；B真實地；C確切地，精確地；D細心地；這位女性能夠準確預測這樣的一件事情真是令人驚訝。

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