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滑县二中15-16学年2015级5月月考
英语试题
阅读理解(每题2分,共20小题40分)
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 Whitby, saw a yellow
warning light. They slowed the train, and then stopped. Whitby 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 Whitby could give a warning, he was knocked
down by two men. Mills cars with all the mai lmen had been di connected 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 (Hf
aE) 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
21. 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
22. Why didn' t the other mai lmen 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.
23. 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. Whitby had an assistant driver.
D. The robbers carried the money away by trucks
B
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