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At 8:30 in the morning, the body of a man was found. Someone murdered(谋杀)him. A small (1) k____________ was found near the body. Maybe the murder used that knife. The police doctor said, “The man (2)d____________ about eight hours ago.” So the murder had possibly happened between midnight (3)a____________ one o’clock.
The police questioned three men. They didn’t tell the three men about the murder. The first man said he had been at home the whole evening and was (4) r____________ magazines, (5) t____________ he went to bed early.
The (6) s____________ man told the police that he had spent the evening with some of his friends. They had been to cinema together. He got home at about 11 o’clock.
The third man said he didn’t know (7) a____________ about the murder. He also said he didn’t have a knife. Of course the police (8) e____________ found out who the murder was.
1. knife 2. died 3. and 4. reading
5. then 6. second 7. anything 8. exactly/easily