6.
Answer the questions.
Mrs Burt
was walking along a San Francisco street. Suddenly a man took her purse and
ran. She was very angry. She had ten dollars, her bus pass, and the key to her
house in her purse. Mrs Burt ran after the thief.
The thief
ran one block, two blocks, three blocks. The thief was a young man, so he could
run fast. Mrs Burt was not a young woman-she was 73 years old-but she could run
fast, too, Mrs Burt stayed right behind the thief.
Mrs Burt
was wearing two chopsticks in her hair. The chopsticks had sharp ends Mrs Burt
took the chopsticks out of her hair. "Maybe I can stab(剩) the thief with these chopsticks." she thought.
"Then he will drop my purse."
The thief
ran into an apartment building. Mrs Burt followed him. "Help! Stop him!"
she shouted. "He has my purse!"
Two police
officers were walking near the apartment building. They heard Mrs Burt and ran
to help her. One police officer stayed with Mrs Burt. The other police officer
chased the thief.
The police
officer found the thief on the roof of the apartment building. The thief was
looking in Mrs Burt's purse. When he saw the police officer, the thief dropped
the purse and jumped off the building. The building was two story's high.
A few
minutes later the police officer caught the thief. He was hiding under a car.
He
couldn't run because he had broken his legs. The police took the thief to jail.
The thief will stay in jail for a long time. But the thief was lucky. He was
lucky that the police caught him. He was lucky that Mrs Burt didn't catch him!