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Dan Robinson has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!

重点用法：

1.      In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他到警察局去一趟

call at+地点：去了某地

call 后加不同的介词，表达的意思不尽相同。常见的搭配方式有：

call back 回电话, 收回    call in 召集, 召来,  call on (sb):拜访某人

call out 出动, 召集, 大声叫喊    call up 给 ... 打电话...  call (sb.)up：给某人打电话

call off：取消

I'm very busy now. Please call back later.
我现在很忙，请过一会儿再来电话吧。

He is ill; you should call in the doctor right away.
他病了，你应该立即请大夫来。

Tomorrow I'll pay a call on him.
明天我将要去拜访他。

2． Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.
那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他运回家来。

（1）本句中，the policeman told him是个插入成分，在讲故事时经常使用这种表达法。

（2）pick up 此处是“意外找到”地意思捡起，还有收集、 继续、 得到、 接人、偶然结识等意思

He bent down to pick up the coin.
他弯下腰来，捡起硬币。

She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.
她到法国居住後很快就学会了法语。

课后习题答案：

P160 用恰当词填空： 1 on   2 off  3 out   4  at

 多项选择答案：

1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (b) 11. (c) 12. (a)

详解

1. d    根据课文第3行Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police… 可以判断d. he didn’t know why the police wanted him 是感到焦虑的真正原因，所以应该选d.其他3个选择都是课文提及的情况，但不是他焦虑的真正原因。

2. a    根据课文第8-9行Dan was most surprised… he never expected the bicycle to be found 可以判断， 只有a. had probably forgotten all about his bicycle(可能把他的自行车早忘得一干二净了)符合当时的心情，是正确答案。其他3个选择都不符合他当时的心理感受。

3. b    (c)yet (d)anymore 都不符语法,因为它们常用于否定句中,而本句是肯定句. (a)even不符合题意,应该同比较级连用才正确;(b)still 可以用在肯定句中表示仍然,还,因此只能选(b)still

4. c    a. had been finding 和 d. have been finding都不是正确的时态，动词find(找到)强调结果，不应该用进行时态； b. had been found语态不对，因为本句的主语是人，是动作的执行者，故不能用被动语态；

c. had found最合乎时态和语态，因此只能选c

5. a    本句是对地点提问的疑问句，回答是In a small village,只有a. Where 是问地点的，所以a. 是正确答案，而其他3个选择都不是问地点的。

6. d    a. to 和b. to be 都不合乎语法,因为以that引导的是从句,应该有主语和谓语,而不应该是用to引导的动词不定式, c. they也不合乎语法,因为主句动词是过去式,从句也应该是过去时态. d. they would 是过去将来时,最合乎语法,所以只能选它.

7. c    本句有表示过去时间的状语twenty years ago(20年前)，因此应该用一般过去时。a. stolen是过去分词，不能做谓语；b. has stolen 是现在完成时， 不合乎时态； d. was stolen是被动语态，不正确，因为本句的主语是人，是动作的执行者，应该用主动语态；只有c. stole 是过去式，符合语法，因此应该选c.

8. b    a. topical(话题的)，b. local(地方的，当地的)，c. native(出生地的，本地的，本国的)，d. neighbourly(友好的，睦邻的)。只有b. 最适合于这个句子，其他3个词都不合乎题目意思。

9. c    只有选c. on之后才表示“拜访”，最合乎题目意思和语法。 a. at 后面应该跟地点，而不应该跟人；b. in不是正确表达方式；选d. up 之后表示“给……打电话”，不合乎题目意思。

10. b    只有选b. 才能同前一句The bicycle was picked up four hundred miles away(自行车是在400英里外发现的)意思相符。 Picked up (发现，拾到)同found意思最接近；而a. picked(挑选，摘), c. dropped(丢下，落下), d. lifted(提起)这3个词都不合乎题目意思。

11. c    前一句中的was amused 是“感到好笑”，“被逗笑了”的意思。 只有 c. laughed(笑)才合乎逻辑。 a. shouted(高喊)，b. cried(喊叫)， d. clapped(拍手，鼓掌) 这3个词都不合乎逻辑。

12. a    只有a. robbed(被偷窃了)才能与前一句The bicycle was stolen.(自行车被偷了)意思相符合； b. stolen词意思含糊，可以解释成为“丹被偷了”或者“丹被偷了东西”； c. taken 不合乎题目意思，“丹被带走了”与前一句意思不符合； d. stealing(正在偷窃)更不符合前一句的含义。