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[填空题]In 1994, the Las Vegas police reported that a man had met an attractive woman at a local bar and then blacked out. When he awoke he was lying in a hotel bathtub, covered in ice. He called an ambulance and was rushed to the hospital, where the doctors told him that he had undergone massive surgery in which one of his kidneys had been removed, most likely by a gang selling human organs on the black market.
(1) . This story is an urban legend, an incredible tale passed from one person to another as truth.
Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modem, fictional story, told as truth that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person. Urban legends are often false, but not always.
(2) .
Folklorists have come up with a number of definitions for urban legend. To most it should be a story with characters and a plot. Others also call widely dispersed misinformation, or facts, urban legend. For example, the belief that you will automatically
[填空题]The police arrested the man who was accused of a serious terrorist ______. (act)
[单项选择]Police arrested a man in ______.
A. Algeria
B. Lille
C. Pads
D. London
[单项选择]The French police arrested a man because ______.
A. he was instructed over the phone to plant a bomb in Lille
B. he has planted a bomb in Lille
C. he is going to plant a bomb in Lille
D. he instructed others to plant a bomb in Lille
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Serious crimes reported to police declined for the sixth straight year in 1997, but the FBI’s annual report shows that property crime usually pays in America, although not very much.
While television and movies regularly show culprits captured, the FBI’s annual crime report reveals a harsher truth: the overwhelming majority of robbers, burglars, larcenists and auto thieves are not caught.
On the upside, the FBI reported Sunday that serious violent and property crimes reported to police dropped by 2.4 percent last year to a total of 13.2 million. The murder rate plunged by 8.1 percent to its lowest level in 30 years.
Murder, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, burglary, larceny-theft and auto theft all declined in number and in rate in every region of the country. But Attorney General Janet Reno cautioned that they still had not won the war on crime.
The FBI also reported that police last year solved only 26 percent of the robberies, 20 p
[单项选择]Who is going to Las Vegas
A. John.
B. Mary.
C. Tom.
D. Peter.
[单项选择]Why is Las Vegas so successful in attracting tourists
A. Because of gambling.
B. Because it is an alternative family destination.
C. Because the hotels are quite cheap.
D. Because people like the desert.
