1 . A couple from Miami , Bill and Simone Butler , spent sixty-six days in a life-raft (救生艇)in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.
Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). “They started to hit the side of the boat, ” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water. ”Two minutes later , the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.
For twenty days they had tins of food , biscuits , and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water-two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed , and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands. ”
About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea, their life- raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn't stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.
1. Bill and Simone were traveling________ when they met some whales.| A．in a life-raft . | B．in Miami . | C．in Simony | D．in Panama |
| A．the boat was sinking | B．they bit the boat |
| C．they pulled the boat | D．they bit the couple |
| A．jumped into the life-raft | B．heard water |
| C．watched the boat go under water | D．stayed in the life-raft |
| A．They were too excited to stand up. |
| B．They knew their two months at sea would end. |
| C．They couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat. |
| D．Their life-raft was beginning to break up. |
Disaster struck in the town of Redbrooke late last night when the Palmer Court apartment block that was built recently
It was just after 2:00 am when many of the residents in the building were woken by
The fire spread rapidly through the building and the rescue
The firemen battled with the fire until 7 o'clock this morning but
3 . There was ice on the road, and the doctor’s car hit a tree and turned over three times. To his surprise, he was not hurt. He got out of the car and walked to the nearest house. He wanted to telephone the garage (汽车修理站) for help. The door was opened by one of his patients.
“Oh, Doctor.” she said, “I have only just telephoned you. You must have a very fast car. You have got here very quickly indeed. There has been a very bad accident (事故) in the road outside. I saw it through the window. I am sure the driver will need your help.”
1. Where was the doctor going in his car?| A．We don’t know. | B．To a patient’s home. |
| C．To a garage. | D．To his own home. |
| A．Careless driving. | B．A tree had fallen across the road. |
| C．A slippery (滑) road. | D．There was a thick fog. |
| A．he knew one of his patients lived there |
| B．he had received a call to go there |
| C．he wanted to use the telephone |
| D．he was injured (受伤) and could walk no further |
| A．She needed medical treatment. |
| B．She believed somebody else needed a doctor. |
| C．To ask how quickly the doctor could come. |
| D．To ask whether the doctor was coming on his regular visit. |
| A．She had been expecting the doctor, but was surprised that he had come so quickly. |
| B．She had not expected the doctor and wondered why he had come. |
| C．She felt glad that the doctor was not hurt in the accident. |
| D．She was alarmed (惊慌) at seeing the doctor in a bad state after the accident. |
A supermarket employee in Illinois is being called a hero after
Ben Mazur, a worker at a Schnucks supermarket in Alton, was pushing shopping carts when he heard a car horn honking(喇叭鸣响) repeatedly. “It turns out, the
Mazur quickly noticed it wasn’t just a cart－there was also a baby placed in the child seat. “The mom was putting
Now, both the manager and customers speak
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Yesterday on my way home, I witnessed a accident. A girl fell off her bike, which head was bleeding heavy. Many people crowded around her. To help the girl, and someone advised moving her to the roadside in the shade. I disagreed and insisted that the girl should be left where she was until doctors get here. She seemed not breathe at that time. I started his breathing using mouth-to-mouth way. Then I covered her wound with a clean piece of cloth and pressing the wound to slow down bleeding. About ten minute later, the doctors arrived and the girl were sent to hospital.
6 . An abandoned car in Chicago worth about $600 has been issued more than $100, 000 in parking tickets (罚单) over the past three years. Now Jennifer Fitzgerald, 31, is stuck with the bill but says the 1999 Chevy Monte Carlo actually belongs to an ex-boyfriend who registered (登记注册) the car in her name without informing her.
The Expired Meter ( 停车计时器) reports that from May 23, 2009 to April 30, 2012, the Chicago Department of Finance (DOF) issued 678 tickets against the car, totaling $105, 761.80. It set a Chicago record both for the total number and amount of parking fines issued. In fact, it blew past the previous record holder, which was $65,000 from about 400 tickets.
But Fitzgerald says she doesn’t owe the city a dime (10 分硬币) and has filed a lawsuit (诉讼 ) in Cook County Circuit Court against the city of Chicago, United Airlines and the ex-boyfriend. Fitzgerald has two main arguments in her case. First, she says her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Preveau, is the actual owner of the car, having bought it from her uncle for $600 in 2008. In fact, Brandon paid for the car’s title (所有权), registration and insurance, but it was registered in Fitzgerald’s name. “Brandon used his 2007 income tax refund ( 退 款 ) to pay Patrick $600 for the car,” reads Fitzgerald’s complaint. “For reasons not recalled by Patrick, however, Patrick signed the title to the car over to Fitzgerald.”
Second, Fitzgerald’s lawyer is arguing that the city should have simply towed (拖走) the car after 30 days from O’Hare Airport, where it was parked and where Brandon worked at the time. According to Fitzgerald’s complaint, on or before November 17, 2009, Brandon drove the car into the parking lot and never drove it out again. And as the Expired Meter reports, Chicago law does state exactly that an abandoned vehicle is to be towed 30 days after being illegally parked.
1. After the Chicago Department of Finance noticed the car, it _______.| A．wanted to break a record |
| B．tried its best to find its owner |
| C．kept issuing tickets against the car |
| D．decided to play a joke on its owner |
| A．sold the car to her ex-boyfriend long ago |
| B．received the car from her ex-boyfriend |
| C．didn’t know anything about the car |
| D．wasn’t the real owner of the car |
| A．didn’t inform her as soon as it found the missing car |
| B．didn’t tow the vehicle after 30 days from O’Hare Airport |
| C．didn’t state exactly that an abandoned vehicle was to be towed |
| D．didn’t help her find the car when it was missing in the beginning |
| A．doesn’t want to pay any money |
| B．thinks Patrick should pay the fines |
| C．isn’t trying to find her ex-boyfriend |
| D．has never been to O’Hare Airport |
7 . “Calling tower,” the pilot’s voice crackled. “This is an emergency!” The radio operator in the control tower looked at his watch. It was 3:15 p.m. Lieutenant Charles Taylor and five Navy bombers (轰炸机) were in trouble. “We are off course. We cannot see land … repeat … we cannot see land.”
The control tower grew silent. The operator garbed (戴上) his microphone. “What is your position?” “We are not sure of our position,” Lieutenant Taylor replied. “We seem to be lost.” Taylor had over 2,500 hours of flight time. What was happening?
The tower called back: “Assume bearing (方位) due west.” “We don't know which way is west,” Taylor replied. “Everything is wrong…strange… We cannot be sure of any direction…Even the ocean looks odd…” The radio operator told Taylor to fly north “with the sun on the left” until he reached a Naval Air Station. Anyone could find the sun, especially a good pilot like Taylor. Soon the radio crackled again. “We have just passed over a small island,” said the pilot. “No other land in sight.” That was the last message Flight 19 sent to the radio tower. Five Navy bombers were lost. They had left the Naval Air Station for a routine training flight at 2:00 p.m., December 5, 1945. Each plane had enough fuel to fly more than a thousand miles. The weather was sunny and mild. Pilots from other flights had not seen anything strange there. So what happened? How could five Navy bombers and their crews just disappear?
The search for the five bombers covered 380,000 square miles of land and sea.
Hundreds of boats and planes searched large areas of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of Florida, and many neighboring islands. Some of the boats were aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. They searched the area for weeks. Nothing was ever found. No life rafts. No wreckage (残骸). Not even an oil slick (油层). Oil from the engines should float on the surface, even if everything else had sunk.
1. The pilot knew that they were in trouble when ______.| A．The radio operator warned him. |
| B．He couldn't be sure of his flying route. |
| C．The engine failed to work. |
| D．The emergency light was suddenly on. |
a. The control tower grew silent.
b. The bombers had a lot of fuel.
c. The weather was good.
d. No strange happening was reported by other flights.
| A．(b) (c) (d) | B．(a) (b) (d) | C．(a) (c) (d) | D．(a) (b) (c) |
| A．There was no life raft. |
| B．There was no wreckage. |
| C．There was no oil slick. |
| D．There was no "SOS" call. |
| A．they went for a very important mission. |
| B．they went to some very important places. |
| C．they went out of earth. |
| D．they went somewhere no one knew. |
8 . An 8-year-old southeast Kansas girl is being praised for her quick, calm thinking. She grabbed the steering wheel(方向盘) and drove the family’s SUV when her mother fell unconscious on their highway ride to school.
Abby Porter and her mom, Shelly, were heading for her school in Riverton when Shelly had a medical emergency. She passed out(昏倒) behind the wheel.
Abby is a second-grader whose father sometimes lets her drive their tractor. With her mother falling down heavily, Abby leaned over and took the wheel. At some point, Abby even successfully performed a U-turn on the four-lane highway, because she was going home to her daddy, according to Galena Police Chief Larry Delmont.
“That was at 8:37 in the morning, and there was a lot of traffic,” Delmont said. Officer Jimmy Hamilton noticed the SUV going about 20 mph and weaving a bit between the two lanes. He suspected someone was driving under the influence. As he got closer, he noticed the woman fell over in the driver’s seat and saw Abby at the wheel.
Hamilton tried to get in front of Abby’s car to slow her down, but she kept switching lanes to avoid bumping into his car. Hamilton got alongside her and told Abby to stop the vehicle, but she didn’t know how. He then told her she needed to bump into him to stop the car, but Abby said she didn’t want to because she was afraid. He convinced Abby bumping into his car was OK.
‘‘I never saw her cry,” Hamilton said. “From just the expression on her face and the tone of her voice, you could tell she was scared. But she stayed with it.”
Emergency crews got Abby’s mother to the hospital, but Delmont said he didn’t know what caused her to lose consciousness.
The police department in Galena, a town of about 3,000 residents about 150 miles south of Kansas City, planned to present Abby with a plaque(匾牌) for “outstanding bravery in a life-threatening situation”.
1. People praise Abby Porter mainly because at such a young age, she can ______.| A．drive an SUV |
| B．go to school regularly |
| C．take good care of her mother |
| D．react quickly and calmly in an emergency |
a. Abby leaned over and took the wheel.
b. Shelly fell over in the driver’s seat.
c. Abby bumped into Hamilton’s car.
d. Hamilton noticed the SUV.
e. Shelly drove Abby to school.
| A．b, a, d, e, c | B．c, b, a, d, e |
| C．e, a, b, c, d | D．e, b, a, d, c |
| A．Jimmy Hamilton was telling her what to do． |
| B．She had learned to drive her father’s tractor before. |
| C．Her mother had told her how to drive a car before. |
| D．She was clever enough to do some unexpected things. |
9 . House fires cause many deaths each year.
A smoke alarm greatly reduces your chances of being hurt in a fire, especially when you are in your dream.
A smoke alarm warns you of the danger. When you hear it, take action immediately. When you come to a closed door, check it with the back of your hand. If it feels hot, there may be smoke or fire behind the door, so take care.
| A．Once you are out of your house |
| B．Make sure of working hours of fire fighters |
| C．A large number of these fires are set by kids |
| D．Although your friends know how to put out fire |
| E．So you should have a smoke alarm outside your bedroom |
| F．But remember, the alarm can work only if it has enough power |
| G．Actually most of them can be avoided with working smoke alarms |
The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker in Pudding Lane. The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.
By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.
Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.
The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.
After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect, wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifty churches, among them was new St Paul's.
The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.
1. It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that ______.
| A．many famous buildings were destroyed |
| B．the birds in the sky were killed by the fire |
| C．some people lost their lives |
| D．the King's bakery was burned down |
| A．Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire. |
| B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire. |
| C．To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire. |
| D．To show that poor people suffered most. |
| A．Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down. |
| B．All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed. |
| C．People managed to get enough water from the river. |
| D．The king and his soldiers came to help. |
(a) There was a strong wind.
(b) The streets were very narrow.
(c) Many houses were made of wood.
(d) There was not enough water in the city.
(e) People did not discover the fire earlier.
| A．(a) and (b) | B．(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) |
| C．(a), (b), (c) and (d) | D．(a), (b) and (c) |
