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    Ms. Jane Webb called the police to report a suicide at 11:22pm on January 7, 2007. When the police arrived at her house and the house across the street where the dead body was found, they discovered a small hole above the man's right eye and a gun next to his right hand. Ms. Webb then proceeded to tell Inspector Greene her story of witnessing the suicide, however one detail shows that she was lying - she claimed that all the doors and windows of the house were closed so she had to break a window, which is inconsistent with how the police found the door open upon entering. Inspector Greene did not believe her story and told her she would need to come to the police headquarters with him.

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    Ms. Jane Webb called the police to report a suicide at 11:22pm on January 7, 2007. When the police arrived at her house and the house across the street where the dead body was found, they discovered a small hole above the man's right eye and a gun next to his right hand. Ms. Webb then proceeded to tell Inspector Greene her story of witnessing the suicide, however one detail shows that she was lying - she claimed that all the doors and windows of the house were closed so she had to break a window, which is inconsistent with how the police found the door open upon entering. Inspector Greene did not believe her story and told her she would need to come to the police headquarters with him.

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    Ms. Jane Webb called the police to report a suicide at 11:22pm on January 7, 2007. When the police arrived at her house and the house across the street where the dead body was found, they discovered a small hole above the man's right eye and a gun next to his right hand. Ms. Webb then proceeded to tell Inspector Greene her story of witnessing the suicide, however one detail shows that she was lying - she claimed that all the doors and windows of the house were closed so she had to break a window, which is inconsistent with how the police found the door open upon entering. Inspector Greene did not believe her story and told her she would need to come to the police headquarters with him.

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    Ms. Jane Webb called the police to report a suicide at 11:22pm on January 7, 2007. When the police arrived at her house and the house across the street where the dead body was found, they discovered a small hole above the man's right eye and a gun next to his right hand. Ms. Webb then proceeded to tell Inspector Greene her story of witnessing the suicide, however one detail shows that she was lying - she claimed that all the doors and windows of the house were closed so she had to break a window, which is inconsistent with how the police found the door open upon entering. Inspector Greene did not believe her story and told her she would need to come to the police headquarters with him.

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    Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple.

    Be a detective: read the text very carefully


    and find one detail which shows that Ms Jane Webb is lying.

    At 11:22 p.m. on January 7, 2007, Ms. Jane Webb called the Toronto police to report
    a suicide. At 11:34 a police car _______(stop) in front of her house, and two
    policemen ______(get) out of the car. Ms. Webb ______ (put) on a warm coat
    because it _______ (be) cold and she waited for them in front of the house. She
    ______ (take) them to the house across the street.

    Surprisingly, the door _____ (be) not closed. They entered the house and ______
    (find) the dead man. There was a small hole above his right eye, and there was a
    gun on the floor next to his right hand.

    The policemen looked around but they ________ (not touch) anything. They then
    ______ (leave) the room and __________(tell) Ms. Webb that she _____ (be) a very
    important witness. They asked her to go to her house and wait for them.

    Inspector Greene and a team of experts arrived fifteen minutes later and the
    investigation __________(begin).

    It was almost 2 a.m. when Inspector Greene finally _________ (come) to speak to
    Ms. Webb. They _____ (sit) at the kitchen table, _______ (drink) a cup of coffee and
    she _____ (tell) him about the crime.

    `I was in this room when I ______ (look) out the window. I ______(see) Mr James
    he turned on the light, walked to his desk, _______ (take) his gun and shot himself
    in the head. Then I ________ (run) to his house, but all the doors and windows were
    closed so I _______ (take) a stone and ________ (break) a window on the first floor
    and I climbed in.

    Ms. Webb continued: ` I _____ (go) up the stairs to the study. I turned on the light
    and I _____(run) to the body, but there was nothing I could do for him. Then I _____
    (leave) the house and called the police.

    Now she ______ (begin) to tremble. `I'm sorry,' she explained, `Mr James was also
    my boss. I work at his company as his accountant, and I know there was a reason
    for his suicide. The company ____(go) bankrupt, and I feel responsible for this
    accident because I ______(give) him the bad news, just this morning.'

    The inspector looked at her but there was no sympathy in his eyes. He _____ (say),
    in a very cold voice, `You are going to have to come down to police headquarters
    with me.'

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