破案“神速”

Ted has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.

In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police. He went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.

At the station， he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found five days ago.

The policeman told him the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train.

Ted was surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too， because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen！

泰德一周以來都很憂心。上周二他收到一封當地警察局寄給他的信。

信中說讓他給警察局打電話。泰德想知道警察為什么找他。他昨天去了警察局，現在他不憂心了。

在警察局，一個面帶笑容的警察告訴他，他的自行車五天前找到了。

警察告訴他自行車是在400英里外的一個小村莊找到的，現在正用火車運回他家。

泰德聽到這個消息后感到很吃驚，同時也很開心，因為他從未指望他的自行車還能被找到。自行車是在20年前被偷走的，那時候泰德還是個15歲的男孩！

Vocabulary

local adj. 當地的;本地的

wonder v. 想知道（wondered是過去式形式）

amused adj. 愉悅的;開心的

expect v. 指望（expected是過去式形式）