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We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers. Our car was full of
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inside. On the way home my wife saw a bookshelf outside a fur niture (家具) shop. "Buy it," she said at once. "We'll
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it home on the roof-rack (车顶架). I've always wanted one like that." Ten minutes __3__
we were back with the bookshelf. 1 drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening. The
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even stopped traffic to let us through.
After a rime my wife said, "There's a long line of cars
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. Why don't they overtake (超车)?"
Just at that time a police car did overtake, and two officers inside asked us to
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their car through the busy traffic. The police car stopped at our village church(教堂).
One of the officers came to me and said,
"Do you need any more
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now?" I didn't quite un derstand. So I said, "You've been very
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. We live just down the road."
He was looking at our things, first at the flow ers, then at the bookshelf. "Well, well," he said and
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, "It's a bookshelf you've got here! We thought it was— er, something else."
My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I under stood
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the police drove here.
1. A. books
| B. flowers
| C. fruits
| D.vegetables
| 2. A. take
| B. carry
| C. send
| D. hold
| 3. A. before
| B. after
| C. later
| D. ago
| 4. A. drivers
| B. police
| C. cleaners
| D. sellers
| 5. A. behind
| B. before
| C. beside
| D. back
| 6. A. take
| B. follow
| C. move
| D. drive
| 7. A. time
| B. money
| C. help
| D. water
| 8. A. kind
| B. clever
| C. polite
| D. popular
| 9. A. laughed
| B. cried
| C. shouted
| D. jumped
| 10. A. how
| B. what
| C. who
| D. why
| KEY: 1-5 BBCBA
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