2 . We think of teenage video gamers as being in a sort of solitary confinement(单独禁闭),shut in their darkened bedrooms.In _______,they are usually communicating with other gamers, via audio or text, about the action on the screen. And sometimes their conversations change from the world of fantasy to _______
That's what happened to 14-year-old Reilly Howard from East Hampton,Connecticut, last October. While playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, he _______ that a 13-year-old from Florida, was not his normal self. Reilly's feeling was _______ when the friend messaged him,"Yo, we need to talk. "Reilly _______ called him.
"He starts to _______about what's going on in his life: 'I have nothing to live _______ ;I'm going to kill myself,'" Reilly told nbcconnecticut.com."He couldn't even talk. He was crying so much."_______ to express his inner pain in speech, the 13-year-old _______ out,"Tonight is going to be the night."
"He's my ________.I didn't want him to die," he told WFSB.
For two hours, Reilly said everything he could think of to ________ the 13-year-old to embrace(拥抱)life.“I just kept comforting him," says Reilly. “I said, 'I'll see you tomorrow.I'm going to be playing with you tomorrow.You promise, ________ is going to happen tonight.'"
About that time,Reilly's parents came home from work.He________ them of what was happening,and they called Florida police, who tracked down the boy.
The troubled teen is doing ________now,thanks to a gamer-one he'd never met in person-who was willing to put down the keyboard and lend a(n)________,Reilly's mother, Sheila Reilly,says,"You just have to show up and talk to people.And listen."
1. A.surprise | B.particular | C.truth | D.general |
2. A.reality | B.imagination | C.games | D.screens |
3. A.agreed | B.predicted | C.noticed | D.remembered |
4. A.examined | B.confirmed | C.challenged | D.accepted |
5. A.pleasantly | B.finally | C.formally | D.immediately |
6. A.go ahead | B.move forward | C.note down | D.open up |
7. 8. A.Unable | B.Unbelievable | C.Unhappy | D.Unnatural |
9. A.sent | B.called | C.typed | D.figured |
10. A.man | B.friend | C.gamer | D.colleague |
11. A.expect | B.advise | C.change | D.persuade |
12. A.nothing | B.something | C.anything | D.everything |
13. A.reminded | B.informed | C.remembered | D.expressed |
14. A.fluently | B.magically | C.usually | D.well |
15. A.heart | B.action | C.ear | D.shoulder |