Police Stop Drug Trade in Two States

警方在兩個州截斷毒品交易


Introduction

Police in India stopped two groups of people. They found a lot of illegal drugs and arrested the men.

印度警方攔截了兩組人。他們發現了大量非法毒品,並逮捕了這些男子。

Main Body

In Uttar Pradesh, police found 123 kg of cannabis. A man named Prem Chandra Maurya sent the drugs in boxes. He wrote 'silk sarees' on the boxes to hide the drugs. He used fake names to send them from Assam.

在北方邦,警方發現了 123 公斤的大麻。一名叫 Prem Chandra Maurya 的男子用箱子寄送毒品。他在箱子上寫「絲綢紗麗」來掩飾毒品。他使用假名將毒品從亞薩姆邦寄出。

In Manipur, police stopped a car. The car had fake army signs on it. The driver was Tarkeshwar Singh. He wanted to pass the police checkpoints easily.

在曼尼普爾邦,警方攔截了一輛車。該車上有偽造的軍隊標誌。司機是 Tarkeshwar Singh。他希望如此能更輕鬆地通過警方的檢查站。

Police searched the car. They found 15.35 kg of opium in a secret place under the door. The man was not in the army.

警方搜查了該車。他們在車門下方的一個秘密空間發現了 15.35 公斤的鴉片。該男子並非軍人。

Conclusion

The police arrested the men. Now they are looking for other people in the drug business.

警方逮捕了這些男子。現在他們正在追緝其他涉入毒品交易的人員。

Vocabulary Learning

🕵️ Secret Words & Hidden Things

In this story, people tried to hide the truth. To get to A2, you need to know how to describe things that are not what they seem.

1. The "Fake" Pattern When something is not real, we use the word fake.

  • Fake names → Names that are not real.
  • Fake army signs → Signs that pretend to be from the army.

2. Action Words for Police Look at these strong words used in the text:

  • Stop → To make someone stay.
  • Find → To see something that was hidden.
  • Search → To look inside a car or box carefully.
  • Arrest → To take someone to jail.

3. Simple Sentence Build Notice how the story describes a goal:

"He wanted to pass the police checkpoints easily."

Pattern: [Person] + wanted to + [Action]

  • I wanted to sleep.
  • He wanted to hide the drugs.
  • They wanted to go home.

Vocabulary Learning

illegal (adj.)
Something that is against the law
Example:It is illegal to drive a car without a license.
arrested (v.)
When the police take someone away because they committed a crime
Example:The police arrested the man for stealing a phone.
fake (adj.)
Not real; made to look like something else to trick people
Example:He wore a fake watch that looked like an expensive one.
checkpoints (n.)
Places where police or soldiers stop people to check their IDs or cars
Example:The car stopped at the police checkpoint near the border.
secret (adj.)
Something that is hidden and not known by others
Example:She kept her money in a secret box under the bed.
Practice A2 words in a crossword