文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了在明尼苏达州举行的一次越野赛中,Melanie Bailey背着另一个参赛者Danielle Lenoue过终点线并接受医疗检查的善行义举。
2 . On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have _________ the course earlier than she did. Her _________ came because she was carrying a _________ across the finish line.
As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her _________ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She _________ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with _________. She couldn’t. Bailey then _________ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get _________ attention.
Once there, Lenoue was _________ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme __________ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.
As for Bailey, she is more __________ about why her act is considered a big __________. “She was just crying. I couldn’t __________ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”
Although the two young women were strangers before the __________, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the __________ of human kindness won the day.
1. A.designed | B.followed | C.changed | D.finished |
2. A.delay | B.chance | C.trouble | D.excuse |
3. A.judge | B.volunteer | C.classmate | D.competitor |
4. A.race | B.school | C.town | D.training |
5. A.agreed | B.returned | C.stopped | D.promised |
6. A.courage | B.aid | C.patience | D.advice |
7. A.went away | B.stood up | C.stepped aside | D.bent down |
8. A.medical | B.public | C.constant | D.equal |
9. A.interrupted | B.assessed | C.identified | D.appreciated |
10. A.hunger | B.pain | C.cold | D.tiredness |
11. A.worried | B.ashamed | C.confused | D.discouraged |
12. A.game | B.problem | C.lesson | D.deal |
13. A.leave | B.cure | C.bother | D.understand |
14. 15. A.secret | B.display | C.benefit | D.exchange |