1 . I was driving home with my son Giacomo, 15, on the A40 when I suddenly saw a small plane coining down. Out of nowhere, it _______ some 200 yards away from where we were_________, overturning and bursting into flames.
We were going 70 miles an hour and I managed to_______;otherwise we would have crashed into it ourselves. I jumped out, _________ Giacomo in the car. I remember shouting at him to stay there _________we really didn't have time to mess around.
Flames were coming out of the cockpit(驾驶舱)and I could hear screaming, so I climbed under the wing and tried to_____________the windows in but failed, and with the heat of the_________coming over the top of the plane, I _______ I might have to give up or I'd be in great danger myself. I found the small windows at the back of the plane had cracked, so my best bet was to kick those through. It ___________ and, looking back, we were unbelievably ____________; otherwise, it would have been a completely different____________.
I pulled a teenage girl and boy out.____________another guy, Joel Snarr, arrived on the scene to________________at just the right time. I don't think I would have been able to get the______________out—he was a big guy.____________, Joel seized him by the arms and got him out just in time. I could____________straight away Joel had a military background by how he conducted himself. We'd just got all three of them, Stuart Moore, who’d flown the plane, and his nephew and niece, to a safe ____________when the plane exploded.
The emergency services ____________ pretty quickly, and then they did their duty. When I got back to my__________, Giacomo and I stared at each other, almost laughing in __________. It was a very strange moment—things like this only happen in films.
1. A.exploded | B.landed | C.disappeared | D.crashed |
2. A.living | B.driving | C.standing | D.flying |
3. A.roll | B.speed | C.stop | D.pass |
4. A.leaving | B.saving | C.blaming | D.greeting |
5. A.if | B.though | C.until | D.since |
6. 7. A.fire | B.steam | C.water | D.engine |
8. A.expected | B.imagined | C.admitted | D.sensed |
9. A.lasted | B.counted | C.worked | D.ended |
10. A.afraid | B.lucky | C.cautious | D.brave |
11. A.story | B.adventure | C.challenge | D.lesson |
12. A.Yet | B.Thus | C.Then | D.Indeed |
13. A.help | B.climb | C.explain | D.deliver |
14. A.steward | B.driver | C.rescuer | D.pilot |
15. A.Instead | B.However | C.Strangely | D.Secretly |
16. A.argue | B.tell | C.describe | D.agree |
17. A.return | B.room | C.distance | D.journey |
18. A.went away | B.set out | C.shut down | D.turned up |
19. A.car | B.house | C.plane | D.cinema |
20. A.surprise | B.sorrow | C.relief | D.confusion |