We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but
suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a
number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the
baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you are on
the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, destroying your half prepared meal. You hang up
hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to bring
you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars
hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a
learner. She suddenly go into a panic (恐慌) and stopped her car. This made the driver following her
stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the
cake went right through the window and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a
truck-driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and
hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.
Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move
again. In the meanwhile, the truck-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs
were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It
was just one of those days!
1. According to the author's opinion, ____.
A. a small matter may cause great trouble
B. accidents may happen anytime
C. troubles always come in groups
D. anyone may have trouble any day
2. When the telephone rings,____.
A. you'd better have your baby a little distant from your table before answering it
B. your trouble is sure to come
C. you'd better just let it ring all the way
D. you should never go to answer it in a hurry
3. What did the police do after the accident?
A. They helped the driver clean up the road.
B. They helped the drivers to go on with their journey.
C. They tried to stop the people from arguing.
D. They would find out who should be responsible
4. From the story we can see ____.
A. such accidents are rather common
B. such accidents are rather strange
C. no one can explain why such accidents happen
D. some drivers are too careless
