Very soon after Roberta wrote to the old gentleman, the three children were walking through the tunnel when they heard a cry.
“Hello!” Peter shouted. “Who’s there?”
“Help me,” a voice shouted back. “I can’t move.”
“That’s a boy’s voice,” Roberta said.
The children ran deeper into the tunnel. Before long, they came to a boy. He was lying on the ground.
“What happened?” Roberta asked him. “I was walking through the tunnel when I tripped. I think I’ve broken my leg.” “The 11:15 train is due (预定应到的) soon,” Peter said.“We must get you out of here.”
“I’ve been here for two hours,” the boy said. “I was on my way to the station to catch the train. It’s quicker through the tunnel than along the road.”
“It’s also more dangerous,” Roberta said.
“Oh, stop talking,” Peter said. “We’ve got to get him out. What’s your name?”
“Jim.”
“Come on then, Jim. Hold on to me,” Roberta said. “Peter and Phyllis will help you up.”
It was a difficult journey back to the beginning of the tunnel, but the children got there before the11:15 train did.
They took Jim home. Mother called for a doctor. The doctor said Jim needed to stay in bed for at least a month.
“Can he stay with us?” Peter said. “We’d love to have a friend our own age.”
“I don’t know,” Mother said. “We must find out what his grandfather wants.”
So Mother wrote a letter to Jim’s grandfather.
A few days later, the children were all sitting with their mouths open, looking at him when Jim’s grandfather came.
“You’re our old gentleman!” they exclaimed.
“That’s right,” he said. “And I got your letter, Roberta.”
“What letter?” Mother demanded.
“Roberta wrote to me about her father,” the old gentleman said. “I was not surprised by what she said. I have thought for a long time that he was innocent (无辜的). It was not possible that a guilty (有罪的) man could have such wonderful children.”
Two weeks later, Father came back home.
—Taken from The Railway Children
【小题1】Why was Jim in the tunnel?【小题2】What did the children do when they saw Jim was hurt in the tunnel?
【小题3】When did the children and Jim get to the beginning of the tunnel?
【小题4】Why did the old gentleman think Father was a good man?
【小题5】What do you think of the children and their mother? Why?
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