1 . On a foggy Sunday morning, Amrisha Vaish was sleeping soundly at home in Arlington, Virginia. The sound that woke him at 7:15 was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to _______ carefully, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree _______ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped by smoke around the tree’s base, and its engine was on fire.

Seeing that, he immediately grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the _______ looked worse. The car was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if _______ there. He thought that no one could have survived this crash, and yet there was 15-year-old Quintin Thompson, still _______ with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Vaish tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water yet with no success. When the   _______ got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.

Instantly, Vaish tried to open the back door, but he failed. He picked up a stone beside the tree and hit the back door. This time, it _______. The back door was opened and Vaish crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Vaish noticed how _______ his legs were. Using a pocketknife, Vaish sawed through Thompson’s seat belt. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Vaish pulled him out of a window, and then dragged him to safety before the car was _______ surrounded by flames. Vaish called an ambulance as Thompson suffered severely. Soon, the doctors arrived and Vaish felt ________.

1.

A．analyse

B．view

C．examine

D．question

2.

A．enveloped

B．choked

C．marked

D．rescued

3.

A．wound

B．damage

C．engine

D．smoke

4.

A．drawn

B．guarded

C．sent

D．planted

5.

A．calm

B．curious

C．conscious

D．confident

6.

A．water

B．driver

C．passengers

D．flames

7.

A．responded

B．changed

C．worked

D．failed

8.

A．dirty

B．bad

C．unique

D．normal

9.

A．slowly

B．entirely

C．simply

D．deadly

10.

A．relieved

B．touched

C．recognized

D．satisfied

2 . One Sunday night, a high school student, Rory Campbell, heard noises next door to his home in Bonita Mews, off St Asaph Road, Brockley. When he went outside, he saw his neighbor climbing out of a front window of his second floor flat, which was on fire. He then saw the man covered in black soot(黑灰), shouting for help.

The 15-year-old boy called the fire service and tried to calm the neighbor, who is in his thirties, until firefighters arrived. Rory said, “He was shouting ‘Help me, help me! Get a ladder, get a ladder!’ He was a bit hysterical(歇斯底里的). I didn’t have time to think. I just tried to calm him by telling him the firefighters were on the way.”

Rory was told by the man that the fire had been caused by a candle falling over. Firefighters from New Cross, Peckham, Lewisham and Forest Hill rescued the man by ladder and got the fire under control within minutes of arriving. The man was taken to a south London hospital where he is still recovering from smoke inhalation(吸入).

25% of the flat was damaged by the fire.

Rory, studying music, added, “As the man walked past me, he said ‘Thanks’ and that meant a lot to me. I do feel good because I helped save his life.”

Another neighbor said, “I heard a lot of noise but thought it was coming from the railway opposite. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the man hanging there. The boy next door really did save his life by calling the firefighters.”

1. According to the passage, what caused the fire?

A．Rory’s smoking.

B．Careless cooking.

C．The gas fire.

D．A lighted candle.

2. Before the firefighters arrived, what did Rory do?

A．He lighted the candle.

B．He calmed his neighbor.

C．He closed doors to stop the fire.

D．He held a ladder.

3. How was the man rescued?

A．He was rescued by ladder.

B．The boy carried him out.

C．He was carried by a firefighter who got into the room.

D．He got out himself.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A．much of the flat was destroyed

B．Rory was sent to hospital for injuries

C．Rory studied music

D．Rory led an important part in saving the man’s life

3 . It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station; she jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’d just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route many times before. She practically _______ on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then—wham! Out of nowhere a car T-boned Esposito’s minivan, _______ her to move backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She _______ in the minivan, bruised (撞伤) but mostly just knocked out by the _________ and the airbags.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto was getting ready for _______. He’d just closed his book   and was getting under the covers when he heard the sound of metal on metal and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer_______and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never _______to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas   (睡衣), ran out the door. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he told Newsday. “We’re always on_______.”

The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had _______Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and __________Esposito’s minivan positioned on the railroad tracks. And then he heard a terrible sound: the bells signaling an oncoming __________.

“The gates were starting to come down,” he told Newsday. “I see the headlight of the train.” DiPinto ran quickly to Esposito’s minivan and knocked on the driver’s side window. She __________ looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. She     seemed unhurt. “Honey, you’re on the railroad __________,” DiPinto shouted. “We have to get   you off right now!” He pulled hard on the __________, but the door was crashed in and __________. The   heavy diesel train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was moving fast toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the __________. “Please, don’t let her be __________,” he thought.     He pushed aside the deflating (瘪了的) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and__________her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and quickly get her to ____________ behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimated, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.

But this one had a twist. “Last night,” South Country Ambulance chief Greg Miglino told CBS New York, “the__________ arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

1.

A．drove

B．walked

C．rode

D．hiked

2.

A．allowing

B．forcing

C．ordering

D．reminding

3.

A．sat

B．stood

C．hid

D．waited

4.

A．action

B．noise

C．impact

D．bomb

5.

A．class

B．work

C．dinner

D．bed

6.

A．doctor

B．driver

C．firefighter

D．engineer

7.

A．stopped

B．troubled

C．intended

D．wanted

8.

A．duty

B．time

C．target

D．schedule

9.

A．warned

B．caught

C．hit

D．followed

10.

A．observed

B．spotted

C．realized

D．predicted

11.

A．train

B．truck

C．car

D．ambulance

12.

A．yet

B．just

C．still

D．even

13.

A．yards

B．stations

C．bridges

D．tracks

14.

A．belt

B．key

C．bell

D．handle

15.

A．unlocked

B．jammed

C．open

D．gone

16.

A．bag

B．door

C．book

D．box

17.

A．scared

B．ignored

C．trapped

D．defeated

18.

A．carried

B．rushed

C．guided

D．pulled

19.

A．return

B．work

C．safety

D．life

20.

A．police

B．actor

C．reporter

D．hero

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A．At a fire scene.

B．In a studio.

C．At home.

2. What does the man think is urgently needed?

A．News reports.

B．Fire engines.

C．Helicopters.

5 . Any car accident is frightening, but an accident in which your vehicle is thrown into the water, with you trapped inside, is absolutely terrifying.     1    However, most deaths result from panic, without a plan or understanding what is happening to the car in the water. By adopting a brace(支撑) position, acting decisively and getting out fast, you can save yourself from a sinking vehicle.

Brace yourself for impact (撞击力). As soon as you're aware that you're going off the road and into a body of water, adopt a brace position. The impact could set off the airbag system in your vehicle, so you should place both hands on the steering wheel in the “ten and two” position.

Undo your seat belt.     2     Unfasten the children, starting with the oldest first. Forget the cell phone call. Your car isn’t going to wait for you to make the call.

    3     Leave the door alone at this stage and concentrate on the window. A car’s electrical system should work for up to three minutes in water, so try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don’t think about the window as an escape option either because of panic or misinformation about doors and sinking.

Break the window. If you aren’t able to open the window, or it only opens halfway, you’ll need to break it with an object or your foot. It may feel counterintuitive (有悖常理的) to let water into the car.     4    

Escape when the car has equalized. If it has reached the dramatic stage where the car cabin has been filled with water and it has become balanced, you must move quickly and effectively to ensure your survival.     5     While there is still air in the car, take slow，deep breaths and focus on what you’re doing.

A．Open the window as soon as you hit the water.

B．Surviving a sinking car is not as difficult as you think.

C．It takes 60 to 120 seconds for a car to fill up with water usually.

D．Such accidents are particularly dangerous due to the risk of drowning.

E．In conclusion, if you know what to do in the water, you will be safe.

F．This is the first thing to attend to, yet it often gets forgotten in the panic.

G．But the sooner the window is open, the sooner you can escape directly through it.