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Reading 1:
A Fish Story
(144 words)
A 46-year-old German man thought he
had caught
a big fish.
It turned out
the fish caught him. The fish, caught in an east German lake near
the Polish border
, not only
got off the hook
but also
lured
the fisherman to his death, according to local police. The fish pulled the
fishing rod
out of the man's hands and
dragged
it about 100 metres away from
shore
. The man took off his clothes and swam after the pole. An
eyewitness
said the man reached the rod floating on the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The witness, 54, swam out to help him and pulled the fisherman back to shore, where he was later
pronounced
dead, police said. "I know it sounds like an incredible story but it really happened," a police spokeswoman said. "It was apparently just an ordinary fish."
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