At three a.m., Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail train. The train was made up of 13 cars.
At the end of the train, 71 mailmen sat sorting the mail. Inside the second car, there were only five mailmen
and 128 bags full of five-pound notes. This train had run more than 100 years without being robbed. At three
minutes past three, Mills and his helper, David Whit by, saw a yellow warning light. They slowed the train,
and then stopped. Whit by went to the telephone beside the track. It was out of order. Then he saw a man
moving between the second and the third car. Before Whit by could give a warning, he was knocked down
by two men. Mills' cars with all the mailmen had been disconnected by the robbers. At the bridge, the bags
of money were unloaded from the train and thrown into waiting trucks. One of the robbers who obviously
knew the schedules (時(shí)刻表) of all the trains kept looking at his watch. At 3:45, he said,"That will have to be
enough." The robbers drove away with more than 2,500,000 pounds.

1. The robbery took place ______.

A. before 3:03
B. in the early morning
C. after three o'clock in the afternoon
D. after 3:45

2. The robbers ______ before the train stopped.

A. were all in the train
B. forced Mills to stop the train
C. were waiting for the train to stop
D. ordered Mills to go on driving

3. Why didn't the other mailmen help the mailmen in the second car when the robbery happened?

A. Because they were busy sorting the mail.
B. Because they didn't want to help the mailmen in the second car.
C. Because the last eleven cars were separated from the front cars.
D. Because they knew nothing about the robbery.

4. One of the robbers kept looking at his watch because ______.

A. he only wanted to know the exact time
B. he enjoyed looking at his watch
C. he didn't know when another train would come
D. they had to leave before another train came

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The train was out of order.
B. The telephone was put out of order by the robbers.
C. Mills and Whit by were both train drivers.
D. The robbers carried the money away by truck.

     There are popular programs about the work of the police on TV. People like them because they are
interesting and useful.
     In London there is a TV program called "Police Five." It takes five minutes a week. A TV reporter
talks about crimes in London. He asks people for help, because the police station needs their help.
     The TV reporter shows pictures of lost painting, lost cars and other lost things during the week.
Sometimes he shows the picture of the car that the thieves drove away. When people see the pictures
of such things on TV, they may remember something so that they may tell the police where or when
they saw them. With their help the police may catch more thieves.
     Sometimes the police find a car or something expensive that has ever been lost, the TV reporter
shows them on TV. Then the owners may see them and they can get them back.

1. "Police Five" is _____.

A. a name of a TV reporter
B. time of a TV program
C. the name of a TV program
D. a police station

2. "Police Five" is shown _____.

A. every day
B. every week
C. five minutes every day
D. five times a week

3. This program is about _____.

A. a TV reporter
B. painting
C. cars
D. crimes

4. The police _____ by this program.

A. let people understand them
B. ask for people's help
C. let people know what was lost
D. let people feel interested

5. When a lost thing is found, the police will _____ by this way.

A. tell the TV station
B. caught the thief
C. find the owner
D. be shown on TV

     It was a strange noise that made the man stop his car soon after he left a village for London. He got out of the
car and looked at the wheels (車(chē)輪) carefully. He found nothing wrong, so he went on.
     The noise began again. The man turned his head quickly and saw a great black cloud behind the car. When he
stopped at a village, people told him that it must be a queen bee (蜂王)in his car as there were thousands of bees
nearby. So he drove away very quickly and thought it would be the best way to escape(逃跑). After one hour's
hard driving,  he arrived in London.
     He stopped his car in front of a hotel and went in. Soon a man hurried in to tell him that his car was covered
with bees. The poor, man rang up the police and explained what had happened.
     The police decided to call a bee-keeper. In a short time, the bee-keeper arrived. He took the queen bee and the
other bees home in a large box. The man was glad.

1. The story happened         .

A. on the way to a village
B. on the way to London
C. when the man was driving his car
D. when the man found nothing wrong

2. When the man turned his head quickly he saw       .

A. a great black cloud in the sky
B. something large and black
C. a strange noise
D. people in a village

3. When the man drove away very quickly the bees         .

A. flew away
B. flew into the car
C. flew behind the car
D. flew to the bee-keeper's box

4. As soon as he stopped his car in front of a hotel in London, the man           .

A. found the bees
B. told a servant to ring up the police
C. rang up the police
D. went into the hotel

5. After the bee-keeper arrived, he               .

A. took the queen and the other bees with him
B. bought a large box to keep the bees
C. drove the bees away without any trouble
D. killed all the bees in a few -minutes