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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).”

71. The underlined phrase “be in line for” (paragraph 1) means _______.

A. get                    B. be paid                  C. ask for              D. own

72. Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber because _______.

A. the police called her                          

B. he looked very strange

C. he came to the hotel with little luggage

D. he came to the hotel the day before New Year’s Eve

73. Vicki’s heart missed a beat because _________.

A. the phone went again

B. she would be famous

C. the policemen had already arrived

D. she saw 20 policemen in the car park

74. David Bieber was most probably handcuffed in ________.

A. the passage        B. the man’s room

C. Vicki’s bedroom                                D. the top floor room

75. The whole event probably lasted about _______ hours from the moment Bieber came to the hotel to the arrival of some armed officers.

A. 6                      B. 8                          C. 11                    D. 14

 

第二卷(共35分)

四、写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节  短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线(＼)划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

When I walked into the classroom, the teacher was handing

in the tests. I was feeling very nervous. I had not studied       76. _____

at all at the weekend as I had thought it would be easy test.    77. _____

I went through the test for many times but I could only answer 78. _____

three out from the twenty questions. I did not want to fail      79. _____

the exam. Then, I put my book under my desk, opening it      80. _____

and started looking for the answer. The teacher wasn’t          81. _____

looking at me, but I copied something. Suddenly, I felt a hand    82. _____

on my shoulder! The teacher caught me cheating. I don’t      83. _____

know what to say. Luckily, the teacher did not punish for      84. _____

cheating but instead gave me a second chance.                     85. _____