"There was heavy snow in the morning，" he said, "I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time."

I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun. I felt a little better, as long as we were talking. "How is Bandit？" I asked.

There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have happened to my dog.

"Well, kid"， he began. "My name is Leigh！" I almost yelled. "I'm not just some kid you met on the street！"

"Keep_your_shirt_on,_Leigh，" he said. "When I had to stop along with some other truckers to put on chains, I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back ... I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn't get an answer yet."I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a boy's voice say, "Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we're going out to get the pizza？"

24．From the story we know that ________.

　A. Leigh's dad never had a rest on Sundays B. Leigh's dad lived in another city

　C. Leigh was a deserted boy D. Leigh's mother often went to golf games

25．What happened to Bandit?

　A. It was frozen to death. B. It ran off Highway 80 and into the mountain.

　C. It was killed by a truck. D. It was let out of the cab and got lost.

26．The underlined sentence "Keep your shirt on" probably means "________"．

　A. calm down B. stop talking C. put on your shirt D. keep warm

27．The worst part in Leigh's eyes may be that ________.

　A. his dad didn't love him B. his parents got divorced

　C. his dad got remarried D. his mom didn't take him to pizza

　The famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset（日落） over the ocean, so that the audiences could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other forever. He sent his camera crew（摄影队） out one evening to film the sunset for him.

　The next morning he said to the men, "Have you provided me with that sunset?"

　"No, sir," the men answered.

　The director was angry. "Why not?" he asked.

　"Well, sir," one of the men answered, "we're on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sunrise（日升） over the sea, if necessary, but not a sunset."

　"But I want a sunset!" the director shouted. "Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one."

But then a young secretary had an idea. "Why don't you photograph a sunrise," she suggested, "and then play it backwards（向后倒）? Then it'll look like a sunset."

"That's a very good idea!" the director said. Then he turned to the camera crew and said, "Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea."