文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者的一次脱险经历。由于连下大雨,使得河流决堤,爆发了洪水,殃及到作者所居住的区域。尽管作者提前做好了“抗洪”准备,但是,洪水的破坏力还是使得作者的家,以及该区域一片狼藉。幸运的是,作者逃生并幸存了下来。
1 . It was July 15, 2021, and my friends had helped me celebrate my 31st birthday.
Earlier in the day I had prepared for the _________ event of a flood. We are about a third of a mile from the banks of the Ahr River. It had been raining heavily that week, and the government had issued a flood _________, though not for where I was. _________, I’d placed sandbags on the floor outside my garden door just in case _________ got through. Before my friends left, they _________ me for doing that, but I thought, why take a chance?
As I drifted off to sleep, I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water, as if I were lying beside a waterfall instead of in my bedroom. When I moved my legs off the bed, I was _________ by the touch of cold water lapping against my knees and rising fast. Trembling and in darkness, I _________ my cellphone and turned on the flashlight. I saw water was shooting through the gaps of the garden door.
I admit it, I began to _________. The Ahr, usually such a __________, slow-moving river, had violently burst its banks. And now I had to get out—fast!
Any effects of the celebratory drinks I’d had earlier were now gone. I heard the garden door starting to crack under the __________ of the flood. In bare feet, I started to move to my only __________: the door that leads to the hallway. All around me things were breaking, and the cupboards were being __________.
I tried to pull the door open, but the force of the water wouldn’t __________ me. Finally, I __________ to make a gap of about a foot, just wide enough to squeeze through and make it into the __________.
If I had __________ just a few minutes later, I would have drowned. Many of the houses around us were destroyed, including, __________, a home for the disabled. Not everyone got out.
I came close to drowning that day. But rather than keep thinking about that, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterward: “Christian, don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________.”
1. A.unimportant | B.unlikely | C.unnoticed | D.unbearable |
2. A.warning | B.report | C.challenge | D.statement |
3. A.Besides | B.Moreover | C.Therefore | D.Still |
4. A.air | B.sand | C.water | D.someone |
5. A.laughed at | B.appreciated | C.blamed | D.shouted at |
6. A.coldness | B.push | C.sound | D.fear |
7. A.moved | B.excited | C.inspired | D.shocked |
8. A.grabbed | B.lost | C.forgot | D.left |
9. A.operate | B.reflect | C.panic | D.cry |
10. A.powerful | B.quiet | C.broad | D.winding |
11. A.guidance | B.control | C.protection | D.pressure |
12. A.equipment | B.belongings | C.surroundings | D.escape |
13. A.thrown away | B.cut up | C.torn apart | D.broken into |
14. A.help | B.let | C.stop | D.influence |
15. A.managed | B.tried | C.determined | D.expected |
16. A.bedroom | B.backyard | C.hallway | D.basement |
17. A.woken up | B.jumped down | C.moved away | D.run out |
18. A.secretly | B.tragically | C.accidentally | D.possibly |
19. A.request | B.recall | C.realize | D.research |
20. A.survived | B.recovered | C.matured | D.refused |