Question

Geoffrey Payne talks for the first time about the night his wife was killed. The judge thought it was he who killed his wife. Now he wrote to a magazine from the prison (监狱) about what happened on the night of 13 October 1999.

I had to stay late at the hospital that night to do an operation. I finally left at about 11 p. m. I drove home slowly because the weather was terrible—the wind was blowing and it was raining heavily,  I was turning into our road when a man suddenly ran in front of my car. I almost hit him but I stopped just in time. I was fright­ened and the man looked frightened too. I got out of the car but he ran away before I could ask if he was all right. It was very strange.

When I got home, the lights were on but it was very quiet. I called to my wife but there was no answer. Then I remembered that she was out at a concert.

I was still very upset about what happened on the road, so I made myself a drink. Then I went upstairs to have a bath. I saw that the window in the bedroom was open. This was strange because my wife always locked the doors and windows before she went out. She was afraid of burglars. When I went to close it, I found Ellen. She was lying on the floor. There was blood everywhere. I rushed over and felt for her pulse but she was dead. I sat on the floor beside her body and was too frightened to do anything.

The next thing I knew, the sky was getting light. I can't remember a thing about that night. In the morn­ing I phoned the police. They arrived about half an hour after I phoned them. But it seemed like hours. During that time I tried hard to remember anything I could about the night before. I couldn't stop thinking about the man in the road. What was he doing at that time of night in our quiet neighbourhood? Why did he look so frightened"! Why did he run away?

1. Geoffrey Payne was a      .

A. doctor         B. policeman

C. judge          D. taxi driver

2. After he found Ellen dead,  Payne      .

A.  called the police at once

B. called out for help

C. tried to find out who killed his wife

D. sat beside his wife's body without know­ing what to do

3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. Payne called the police the next morning.

B. Payne could remember clearly what had happened.

C. The policemen arrived thirty minutes after Payne's call.

D. Payne wondered what the man was doing in his neighbourhood that night,

4.In this passage Payne tried to      .

A. say something about his family

B. show he was very sorry for his wife’s death

C. tell why his wife was killed that night

D. make people believe the man in the road probably killed his wife

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲述了一个听起来让人心情紧张的Payne的妻子被杀的故事。

1.A推理判断题。根据短文的第二段第一行推理判断可知。故选A。

2.D细节推理题。根据短文第四段最后一行 “was too frightened to do anything”可知。“too...to”太... ...而不能，故选D。

3.B细节理解题。根据短文最后一段“I can't remember a thing about that night.”可知Payne 不记得那件事了而不是选项C中清楚记得 。故应该选B。

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考点：故事类短文阅读。