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二、谋杀案头条新闻
第二组测验：
1. What color was his top coat?
a. brown b. blue c. green d. yellow e. black
2. What was the name on the driver's licensed?
a. John Travolta b. Bruce Willis c. John Blake d. Bruce Kerrington e. Jeffery Bruno
3. What was Jeffery Bruno's occupation ?
a. singer b. actor c. writer d. model e. driver
4. Where did Jeffery Bruno live?
a. downtown b. Manhatten c. Chicago d. Greenwich Village e. Soho
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I think he said something else after that, but I wasn't listening then. I noticed that I was wearing a ( 5. ) top coat, wasn't mine. Maybe I'd accidentally (6. ) coat with someone, if I couldn't remember it, it must have been that kind of party. If so, I ( 7. ) for my wallet. It was there.
I...I opened it to see if I had any money left, and my eye was caught by the ( 8. ) made out to John Blake. In another ( 9. ) of the wallet there were engraved cards reading John Blake Insurance. I wasn't John Blake. I was Jeffery Bruno, a ( 10. ). I couldn't even drive a car. I didn't know anything about ( 11. ). I've never heard of a John Blake. But here was his ( 12. ) in my wallet.
"What's the matter, young feffow? Are you ill?" The man across from me said something, but I didn11 hear what it was. I...I looked through the other pocket. There was a bankbook showing that John Blake had big bank balance ( 13. ) . My ( 14.) had never been higher than 15 ( 15. ). There was a ( 16. ), a bill for ( 17. ) addressed to John Blake at at...an address I'd never heard of before. There was a moment there, a few crazy seconds, when I wondered if I really was John Biake. No, I couldn't be. I knew I was Jeffery Bruno who lived in a ( 18. ) apartment in ( 19. ), and wrote (20, ) for a living. I knew who I was.
"Broad Street Station."
"Well, here we are. Or are you going on (21, )?"
"Say, I could get a train back to New York here, couldn't I?""
"Sure, right across from the other ( 22. ). Huh, that must have been some party."
"Extra, read all about the murder."
I had to get back to New York and ( 23. ) this business about John Blake's coat and (24.). He, whoever he was, might even be thinking I'd stolen it. Besides I wanted to find out where I had been the night before and all day. Why I had awakened on a train to ( 25. )?
Then just as I got up from the seat, I glanced out of the window. The news boy was holding up a newspaper. Across the top was a big ( 26. ):
BLAKE!
Just below there was a picture of me.
