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 to ￡30,000 reward money.
Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked
at the Royal 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 pm
the day before New Year"s Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses 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 pm.
Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm 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 (带上手铐)."
| ( )1. A. Suddenly ( )2. A. afforded ( )3. A. spare ( )4. A. passed ( )5. A. help ( )6. A. garage ( )7. A. agree ( )8. A. way ( )9. A. set ( )10. A. can’t ( )11. A. satisfied ( )12. A. persuaded ( )13. A. happy ( )14. A. get in touch with ( )15. A. repairmen ( )16. A. sent ( )17. A. shocked ( )18. A. loaded ( )19. A. owe ( )20. A. wish | B. Finally B. wanted B. free B. stopped B. push B. house B. match B. message B. number B. shouldn’t B. worried B. advised B. here B. keep in touch with B. cleaners B. shook B. happened B. fixed B. lend B. job | C. Immediately C. allowed C. full C. paused C. take C. shop C. go C. success C. pair C. mustn’t C. astonished C. reminded C. away C. be in touch with C. friends C. watched C. returned C. tied C. give C. duty | D. Fortunately D. managed D. empty D. started D. follow D. hotel D. deal D. luck D. chain D. won’t D. disturbed D. promised D. busy D. put in touch with D. couple D. drove D. came D. rebuilt D. offer D. pleasure | ||||||||||||||
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| My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent. I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. At this rate he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked. One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and pleaded for help. "Please God, I can"t do anything more for my son. I"m at the end of my rope. I"m giving the whole thing up to you." I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. "I want to talk to you about Karl"s absences." Before he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. "I love my son but I just don"t know what to do. I"ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It"s out of my hands." For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, "Thank you for your time", and hung up. Karl"s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, "Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?" I nodded. "That was me. I thought I"d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That"s when I knew I had to make you proud." | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. By saying "Karl became withdrawn", the author means that the boy changed entirely and _____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. preferred to stay alone at home B. lost interest in his studies C. refused to talk to others D. began to dislike his mother | |||||||||||||||||
| 2. There was silence on the other end of the line because _____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. the speaker was too moved to say anything to the mother B. the speaker waited for the mother to finish speaking C. the speaker didn"t want the mother to recognize his voice D. the speaker was unable to interrupt the mother | |||||||||||||||||
| 3. The sentence"…he even made the honor roll" means that"_____ ". | |||||||||||||||||
| A. he was even on the list to be praised at the parent-teacher meeting B. he was even on the list of students who made progress in grades C. he was even on the list of students who had turned themselves around D. he was even on the list of the best students at school | |||||||||||||||||
| 4. What is the main idea of this passage? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. Children in single-parent families often have mental problems. B. Mother"s love plays an important role in teenagers" life. C. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers. D. School education doesn"t work without full support from parents. | |||||||||||||||||
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| We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we"ve become used to suddenly disappears. 1 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 2 to see-or look at-on my way to work each morning. For three years, no matter 3 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On 4 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime 5 out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 6 , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I 7 all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how 8 I expected to see her each morning. You might say I 9 her. "Did she have an accident? Something 10 ?" I thought to myself about her 11 . Now that she was gone, I felt I had 12 her. I began to realize that part of our 13 life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 14 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who 15 walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 16 markers in our lives. They add weight to our 17 of place and belonging. Think about it. 18 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by 19 a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though 20 , person? | |||||||||||||||||
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