Directions:In this section, you will hear
a short passage. There are ten missing words in it. Fill in the blanks with the
exact words you hear on the tape.
In police work, you can never predict the next crime or
problem. No working day is identical to any other, so there is no typical day
for a police officer. Some days are (21) slow, and the job
is (22) , other days are so busy that there is no time to
eat. I think I can (23) police work in one word:
(24) Sometimes it’s dangerous. One day, for example, I was
working undercover; that is, I was on the job, but I was wearing (25)
clothes, not my police (26) . I was trying to
catch some (27) who were stealing money from people as they
walked down the street. Suddenly, seven bad men jumped out at me; one of them
had a knife, and we got into a fight. Another policeman arrived,
and together, we (28) three of the men; but the other four
ran away. Another day, I helped a woman who was going to have a baby. She was
trying to get to the hospital, but there was a bad traffic (29)
. I put her in my police car to get her there faster. I thought she
was going to have the baby right there in my car. But (30) ,
the baby waited to "arrive" until we got to the hospital.