The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California , USA.
“Police station? A train for Santa Fe hit a truck at the McDonald Street Crossing.Please ________ there at once.With an ambulance, too.A man is badly _________.” said an anxious voice of a young woman.“ And you know I am the ….”
“Please wait! Hi! Hi!” the policeman kept on ________ though the line was cut off.Within a minute , a police car and an ambulance car started off.Before long they got to the crossing, but they _______everything was fine.No accident, no wounded man.
“What a dirty trick!” said the policeman _______.“We must find out that bad________ and …..”They were just talking about the ________when they heard the whistle of a train which was nearing them quickly.All of a sudden, a truck appeared.It came _______towards them, too.When the truck was passing the crossing, it suddenly _______ to move on.Right then and there, before the eyes of all the policemen _________, the train hit the truck heavily and _______it dozens of meters away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was ________ out of the damaged truck, he was seriously wounded just as the young woman had told on the phone.As he was taken to the _________ in time, his life was saved.
Later the police did whatever they could to _______the man who had telephoned them.It turned out that the young man was a very excellent police officer working far in the neighboring state, who had got the first-hand _______ of this crime as described above.
A.call B.come C.go D.notice
A.beaten B.treated C.needed D.injured
A.talking B.laughing C.crying D.shouting
A.realized B.found C.proved D.wondered
A.nervously B.disappointedly C.angrily D.surprisingly
A.man B.woman C.child D.driver
A.trial B.warning C.program D.punishment
A.passing B.turning C.running D.rolling
A.refused B.stopped C.continued D.began
A.above B.below C.alive D.present
A.struck B.met C.caught D.missed
A.pushed B.helped C.let D.asked
A.company B.house C.station D.hospital
A.meet B.punish C.find D.arrest
A.information B.result C.advice D.news