I a__87___ stopped, but then I realized that the policeman had been reading about me. I supposed the police at the hotel had worked quickly, and called all the local villages. I drove faster, the policeman jumped out of my way, and I was soon out of the village.
I left the main road as soon as possible and tried a smaller one. It was not easy without a map, and I realized that I had been so s___88___ to steal the car. It would help the police to find me in any corner of Scotland. If I left it, and went off on foot, they would find me in an hour or two.
I was very hungry; I had eaten n__89__ since morning. And now, as I drove, I heard a noise in the sky, and there was a plane. I drove as fast as I could down into another town. Suddenly, a car appeared in front of me from a s__90___road. There was no time to stop. I did the only thing possible and drove off the road into a fence, hoping to hit something soft beyond. But I was out of good l___91__. The car went through the fence like a knife through butter, and immediately began to fall. I jumped out and was caught by the branch of a tree, while the car disappeared into a river fifteen meters below.
A hand helped me out of the tree, and a frightened voice asked me if I was badly hurt. The speaker was a young man who was very sorry. I was more p__92___ than angry; it was a good way for the car to disappear.
D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题):(12分)
On 3 July 2003, a 35-year-old Englishman called Doug Bruce walked into a police station in New York, and told the police that he did not know his own name. He had woken up a few minutes earlier on a subway train, with a headache, and had no idea where he was going or who he was. "I was frightened," he said later, when talking about the experience. "I didn't know anything. It was like being in the darkness."
Doug went to the police station because he had nowhere else to go. He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and had a bag with something in it: a Spanish book, a bunch of keys and a map of New York. The police were confused. "We 'd never had anything like this before," said a policeman. They sent Doug to a hospital. On his name card the nurse wrote "unknown white man".
The doctors were surprised at his memory loss. Although Doug could make sentences without difficulty, he remembered nothing about his own past. One doctor at the hospital said that he only ever seen such a serious diseases "in the movies and books."
The hospital would not let Doug to go until he had come to himself. Finally, hospital staff came across a phone number in his Spanish book. It was the number of his friend. Doug phoned and she recognized his voice at once. "Is that you, Doug?" she said. His friend went to the hospital, told the doctors who Doug was, and took him home.
"Home" turned out to be a perfect flat in downtown Manhattan, which he shared with two dogs and three birds. Doug discovered that he had once lived in Paris, where he had made a lot of money working at a big company. Then he had got tired of the business world, and so he left and went to New York for a four-your course in photography.
Now that Doug and discovered himself, he had to deal with other difficulties. He was worried about meeting his family and friends. They seemed like strangers to him. His sisters told him that he had changed; before his memory loss, he seldom showed his feelings in public. Now he has become much more relaxed and doesn't fear showing his feelings.
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