英语六级听力成功指南第三十一期

　　Passage 5

　　After ______ in a crowded bus and waiting in the noisy airport building, I was glad to be sitting in the plane at last. In a few minutes now we would be asked to ______ our seat and to stop smoking, and then we would soon be ______ in the sky on our flight to Berlin.

　　But I had been _________ . Ten minutes later, instead of enjoying the _______ of the evening sky from high above the clouds. I was sitting in a smoke-filled room with an airline ________ and a police officer at my side. On the table in front of me was one of my _________.

　　The officials were very polite. __________________________________________________ _________________________________.

　　I did as I was told. ____________________________________________________________

　　___________.

　　__________________________________________________________________________.

　　travelling

　　fasten

　　up

　　mistaken

　　beauty

　　official

　　suitcases

　　They asked me to show them my passport, my ticket, and my baggage check. Then I was requested to open the suitcase and to spread out its contents on the table.

　　The moment I placed a battery-powered alarm clock I bought for my father on the table, the two officials looked at each other and smiled.

　　Hearing the clock ticking away merrily, I suddenly understood. Someone must have heard the ticking noise coming from my suitcase and thought there was a time bomb hidden in it.