Lesson 34  Quick work

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!

丹•鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。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。丹奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他一再担心了。在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他，他的自行车找到了。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。丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到。这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的！

Grammar

被动语态的用法。

易考的被动语态结构：

一般现在时：am/is/are done； 一般过去时：was/were p.p.；一般将来时：will be p.p.；现在进行时：am/is/are being p.p.;现在完成时：have/has been p.p.

Exercises.

1. He got ill suddenly and __________ to hospital by his friends.

A. was sending   B. sent   C. was sent   D. would sent

2. __________ going to watch The 2004 China F1 Grand prix？

A. Let’s   B. Why not   C. How about   D. Will you

1. 解析：本题考查一般过去时的被动语态，表示“被送到……”，答案为C。

2．解析：本题考查句型How about doing的句型，表示建议，意为“.做…怎么样”，其他选项用法如下：Let’s+ do sth.; Why not + do sth.; Will you +do sth. 所以答案选C。