问答

1.What reminds the writer of sth. in the past?

2.What happened in February ?

3. Why did the car pull up suddenly?

4.What was the cause of the trouble?

5.What the word "disappear" mean here?

6.What happened two weeks ago?

7.Did the man survive the accident?

8.Was it the driver's fault?

1. The cars stopping on the road opposite his winter made the author ____.

[A] sleepless

[B] nervous

[C] think of a road accident

[D] think of the water-pipe which burst last February.

2. When the author went out of his door he saw ____.

[A] a deep hole where the water-pipe had burst

[B] a man lying on the road in the shadow of a tree

[C] a watchman guarding the hole with lights

[D] a policeman and an inspector investigating the hole

3. The man lying on the road was actually ____.

[A] a place shadowed by the trees

[B] a hole lying open

[C] a rough piece of the road

[D] a water-pipe under repair

4. The author met a policeman who_____.

[A] was sent by the police station to look into the matter

[B] was led to see the extraordinary thing

[C] was made an officer overnight.

[D] saw the place and left

5. When the author was woken up two weeks later, he went out and saw _____.

[A] another piece of rough road

[B] a man had been hit

[C] general excitement

[D] a policeman was inspecting the accident.

1.Every night the writer can't go to sleep well because the house he lives is near the street.

2.The writer couldn't sleep well one August night.

3.This story is mainly concerned with the three unexpected events the writer met with.

4.The writer called it chance because the man was dressed in the same clothes.

5.According to the author,the moonlight made the man disappear.

6.In the sentence"Here is a fellow not properly dressed", the phrase"a fellow" implies the writer.

7.Two weeks later ,a man was scared to death by the shadow.

8."Chance"refers to the place the cars stopped.

Questions for discussion

1.What were the causes of these three events?

2.Why does the writer use the flashback?