高三英语练习1.doc

高三英语练习1.doc1 高三英语练****1 阅读理解 A French tourist outsmarts Dutch thief AMSTERDAM —A quick-thinking French tourist outsmarted a Dutch thief after the thief tried to seize his bag, Amsterdam police said Wednesday. After winning a brief tug-of-war over the sports bag, the 27-year-old tourist ran into a nearby police station with the thief in hot pursuit. The thief “ realized too late he had run straight into ‘ the long arm of the law ’,” police spokeswoman Wilma Verheij said of the incident, which took place Tuesday. After it dawned on the thief, a 28-year-old man whose identity was not released, that he was in the middle ofa police station, he tried to run away again. But he was quickly caught by officers and arrested, Verheij said. Liz Taylor remains hospitalized LOS ANGELES — Heart trouble is keeping Elizabeth Taylor hospitalized in Los Angeles for some time, but her publicist says the 78-year-old actress is OK and has been visiting with family and friends. Taylor spokeswoman Sally Morrison said ina statement Tuesday that the two-time Oscar winner fortable at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and “ there has been steady improvement in her condition ” since she was admitted last week. Taylor is being treated for symptoms of heart failure, a condition she revealed in November 2004. “ Her medical team is satisfied by her progress to date, and it is hoped and expected that this will continue over the ne