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A BAD EXPLORER
A man (I)....... Kentucky, USA, had a dream that would take him away from the rolling hills of his home state. The dream: to row (2). the icy Bering Strait (3).. Alaska and Russia, (4).. a bathtub! Unfortunately, the dream was not completely fulfilled. (5)..
the explorer, '1 took four gallons of peanut butter along, but (6).. the morning of the fourth day, it had gone solid. (7).............................................................................. late afternoon, although the sun was still high, the sea went rather thick. Next morning I was frozen in.' No problem. He abandoned the bathtub and walked (8)land.
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SOME STUPID THIEVES
(9)....... the town of Vang, Norway, a group of professional thieves were carrying out a carefully planned robbery. Everything was going (10) clockwork. They broke into a company (11) night, located the safe and set up some explosives that would blow the door of the safe off, allowing them to get to the money inside. After setting the fuse, they
ran (12)....... the next room, crouched (13)..... the wall and waited for the explosion.
It came a few seconds later. The safe door was blown off. So was the roof. In fact, the entire building collapsed, trapping the robbers, still crouching in the next office, (14) ..he rubble of the destroyed building. There had been just one problem they had not foreseen: (15).money, the safe had been filled (16) ..dynamite.
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SELF-HELP CRIME PREVENTION
A Western businessman living (17).................................... Japan had been warned (18) pickpockets in the Tokyo subways. These notorious thieves operated (19)...... the crowded rush hour. They had a habit (20)........................................ grabbing wallets just as the subway doors were closing, leaving the victim helpless (2).............................. the train while they disappeared with the loot
One morning the businessman was (22)his usual subway stop when the train pulled in. He got on, and sure enough, just as the train doors were about to close, he felt a man rub (23) him. In a panic, the businessman reached for his wallet. It was gone! He looked up as the doors began to close and saw that a man had just got (24) the train.
The man was looking at him triumphantly.
Thinking fast, the businessman pushed his hands (25). the closing doors and grabbed the thief's jacket. The doors closed, with the thief still (26)................ the platform but (27) the lapels of his jacket trapped (28)the tight grip of the businessman. As the train began to pull away, the expression (29) the thief's face changed. He began screaming as he ran (30)............ the platform with the train. Finally, he held onto a post and his lapels tore away from his jacket. As the train moved (31)the tunnel, the businessman was satisfied that at least he had frightened the thief.
When he reached his office, he called his wife to get his credit card numbers so he could cancel them. 'But honey,' she said, 'I've been waiting to call you. You left your wallet (32)..the dressing table when you went to work today.'
