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When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny's house, she wasn't nervous. She was certainly not afraid
of the dark.
1 , it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn't
been so
2 .
As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly
3 cold-very cold. Alice's breath became puffs of white cloud
and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.
With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move
4 that she didn't hear the car which suddenly
appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also
5 . Slowly, the passenger-window
began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something
6 . Then, the light
brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. "Hello, dear," said the old lady. "I need
7 .
I'm afraid I'm lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes."
"Airport? You
8 are lost," Alice said. "You need to go back five kilometers
9 you reach the T-junction.
Turn left and
10 for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the
11 to the
airport. But I'm afraid there's no
12 you'll get there in five minutes!"
"Thank you very much, dear," replied the old lady. "Don't worry-I'll
13 in time."
The
14 moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it
15 and with headlights flashing, it drove
past Alice. But then, something
16 happened. The car began changing. First, its color
17 from black to
silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward,
18 just above the
ground. As the car
19 into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and
more brightly. With a faint whistling
20 , the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in
disbelief…
( )1. A. However
( )2. A. brave
( )3. A. fell
( )4. A. aside
( )5. A. arrived
( )6. A. gathered
( )7. A. help
( )8. A. necessarily
( )9. A. if
( )10. A. drive
( )11. A. address
( )12. A. doubt
( )13. A. have it
( )14. A. door
( )15. A. passed
( )16. A. strange
( )17. A. developed
( )18. A. rolling
( )19. A. pointed
( )20. A. tune |
B. Besides
B. excited
B. seemed
B. around
B. stopped
B. existed
B. gas
B. normally
B. until
B. walk
B. signs
B. room
B. get it
B. window
B. rushed
B. sensitive
B. appeared
B. floating
B. returned
B. voice |
C. Therefore
C. curious
C. proved
C. forward
C. stayed
C. dropped
C. rest
C. basically
C. unless
C. follow
C. notices
C. time
C. make it
C. headlight
C. turned
C. imaginable
C. spread
C. drawing
C. broke
C. sound |
D. Otherwise
D. stubborn
D. grew
D. backward
D. started
D. moved
D. water
D. certainly
D. as
D. march
D. guidance
D. way
D. finish it
D. wheel
D. continued
D. horrible
D. faded
D. flashing
D. rose
D. tone |