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  主要人物: 女演员 Kate越狱人 Edward Coke
   陷害Coke的人Eric Masters
  本期背景: Hugo告诉 Masters,一个老盲人和一位女子来找过他。Coke和Kate找到了Masters的古董武器店。
  
  
  Coke did not sleep very well that night. He lay awake thinking. Slowly, however, he formed a plan in his mind.
  Eric Masters was cleaning an antique pistol when the phone rang in his shop. He heard a young woman’s voice at the other end. “I believe you buy and sell antique weapons,” she said. “My father has a number of 17th-century pistols and he wants to sell some of them. Would you mind coming to our place?”
  “Well... I’ll look at them and give you a price.” He noted down the address. He reached into a drawer and took out a pistol. It was a small, black, nasty-looking automatic. He got into his white Jaguar (美洲豹牌汽车) and drove off.
  Masters felt safer when Kate opened the door. She was slim, almost delicate-looking. He glanced suspiciously at the old, blind man sitting on the sofa. At first he seemed harmless enough, but there was something familiar about the man’s face that made Masters look more carefully at him.
  The more he looked at that face, the more suspicious he became. Suddenly it dawned on him. It was the old man’s nose and lips that made Masters think of Coke. He reached for his pistol.
  
  Question: What does “a small, black, nasty?鄄looking automatic” refer to?
  Answer:————————————————————————————
  
  Once a Car Company Disappears
  
  As Washington has tried to decide whether to rescue the automobile industry, Americans have wondered what it looks like when a giant automobile company goes under. The answer can be found in Detroit.
  In the summer of 1956, the once-mighty Packard Motor Car Company closed its doors. Its headquarters and chief production complex still stand there, though, their slowly decaying remains serve as a symbol for the fall of American manufacturing industry in general and the degradation of the auto industry in particular.
  When Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the early 20th century, the Packard complex was a center for innovation. Its construction revolutionized the building of factories around the world since 1905.
  Misery has rarely been mentioned as a reason to pass an auto industry bailout. But if you walk through the Packard plant today, you will know that once a car company disappears, nothing comes along to take its place.
  
  Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “go under”?
  fade awaygo bankruptget downmelt away
  
  Keys
  Chapter 8: It refers to the automatic pistol that Masters took out of the drawer.
  Once a Car Company Disappears: go bankrupt
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