出自:2024年国家开放大学答案
Tick the right headlines forto articles A–D.
1 A judge in Argentina ordered a parrot to be held in custody until he said the name of his owner. Two neighbours, Jorge Machado and R Vega, had both claimed Pepo was theirs. After five days, Pepo said Jorge’s name and sang the anthem of his favourite football team. Mr. Machado said: ‘I knew he wouldn’t let me down. He’s a real friend and we _________ support San Lorenzo.’
2 A burglar who stole from a cartoonist in Australia was arrested after his victim drew his picture. Bill Green, 82, saw the man take a bicycle_________ his shed. He gave his sketch to police, who matched it to a man arrested after a different theft. Policeman Michael Henry said: ‘We were amazed. The cartoon was the spitting image of the man we’d just caught.’
3 A woman from Iowa is alleged to have faked her own death to avoid paying $500 in parking tickets. Police say Kimberly Du, 36, was caught after she got a ticket a month after her ‘death’. She had faked her own obituary and forged a letter saying she had died in a car crash. She now faces up to five years in prison_________fraud.
4 A goldfish carried from its garden pond by floods has_________found alive in a water-filled hole by the roadside more 5-- a mile away. Farmer Ab Oskam, 66, was walking his dog when he recognised the fish as one of three belonging to his neighbours. ‘It was a miracle such a delicate little thing survived,’ he said. The fish has now been named Nemo.
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.Fish found in miracle escape
.Thief caught by cartoon
.Parrot held in jail
.Woman fakes death over fines