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  3. At 3 a. m. ,Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail (邮件) train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the t

At 3 a. m. ,Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail (邮件) train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the t

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问题     At 3 a. m. ,Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail (邮件) train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the train,71 mailmen sat sorting(分类)the mail. Inside the second car,there were only five mailmen and 128 bags full of five-pound notes. This train had run more than 100 years without being robbed. At three minutes past three, Mills and his helper,David Whitby,saw a yellow warning light. They slowed the train,and then stopped. Whitby went to the telephone beside the track,it was out of order. Then he saw a man moving between the second and third cars. Before Whitby could give a warning ? he was knocked down by two men. Mills was ordered to drive the train to a bridge that crossed a road. The last eleven cars with all the mailmen had been disconnected by the robbers. At the bridge,the bags of money were unloaded(卸下)from the train and thrown into waiting trucks. One of the robbers who obviously knew the schedules (时间表) of all the trains kept looking at his watch. At 3：45 he said,"That will have to be enough. "The robbers escaped with more than 2500000 pounds!
One of the robbers kept looking at his watch because______.
选项 A、he wanted to know the exact time
B、he enjoyed looking at his watch
C、he didn’t know when another train would come
D、they had to leave before another train came
答案D
解析 从…obviously knew the schedules of all the train…一句中，我们可以确定，这个抢劫行动是经过精心安排的，他清楚地知道下一列火车的到来时间。
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