A.He lost his horse. | B.He was bitten by a dog. | C.He was bitten by a horse. |
2 . NEW DELHI—Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday inspected the bridge collapse site in the western state of Gujarat, where more than 100 people were killed, officials said. Ahead of the visit, Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Monday night during which he was briefed about rescue efforts.
The century-old British-era pedestrian suspension bridge (吊桥) collapsed on Sunday evening, with hundreds of people falling into Machchhu River in Morbi town, about 241 km west of the capital city, Gandhinagar. Reports said that 177 people were rescued and over 100 people were undergoing treatment at the Morbi civil hospital.
Soon after the bridge visit, Modi reached the civil hospital in Morbi to meet the injured. The prime minister was seen asking the survivors about their health. According to officials, search and rescue operations, carried out by teams of the State Disaster Response Force and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Indian navy, the Indian air force and the Indian army, were called off (取消) on Monday evening and began again on Tuesday morning. Officials said Modi also met with those involved in rescue and relief operations.
The local government of Gujarat has already ordered an investigation into the deadly collapse of the bridge. The bridge is a popular tourist attraction in the area. It was shut for renovation (整修) for seven months and was open for the public on Oct 26, the Gujarati New Year.
Reports said that around 500 people, much beyond its capacity, were on the suspension bridge at the time when it crashed into the river.
Police have arrested nine people including officials of Oreva, the company that carried out the repair work, ticket sellers and security men. However, the owners of the company have not been arrested. Oreva group is actually a Gujarat-based watchmaker company. Reports said that the watchmaker reportedly outsourced (转包) the “technical aspect of the renovation” to a smaller construction company, Devprakash Solutions.
Oreva has been accused of violating multiple safety rules, leading to the huge tragedy just four days after the bridge reopened to the public. Questions have been raised over why Oreva with no experience in construction was given responsibility for maintaining a bridge.
1. What did Modi first do after hearing the bridge collapse?A.He paid a visit to the bridge. |
B.He held and took charge of a meeting. |
C.He went to see the injured in the hospital. |
D.He met with those involved in rescue and relief operations. |
A.It was too old to repair well. |
B.It was maintained very well. |
C.It had a safety risk. |
D.It was solid enough. |
A.Making. | B.Obeying. | C.Breaking. | D.Replacing. |
A.Indian PM inspects site of deadly bridge collapse |
B.Police arrest security men after bridge collapse |
C.Modi is briefed about rescue efforts after bridge collapse |
D.Around 500 people are on suspension bridge when it collapses |
At least 151 people were killed and 82 others were injured in a stampede (踩踏) accident on October 29th in Itaewon, a district of the Republic of Korea’s capital Seoul, during a Halloween gathering, local authorities said
Many victims are largely in their
4 . 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. |
5 . As Rena was driving home in the rain. “I can hardly see!” She worried. Just a few miles more, an electrical pole in front of her car was getting bigger and bigger. The car shot forward. Crash! Rena felt the force tear her from the seat. She felt a sharp pain in her lap. “I went through the windshield but I’m alive!” She realized.
Then she heard a sharp crack, looked up and saw the pole had broken in half and was plunging (下落) toward her! But luckily, the pole landed three feet from her head. The broken pole had torn down electrical wires and they were dangling (悬垂) just inches away from her, trapping her in between them! “An electric current... water... if those cables touch me, I’m dead!”
Less than a mile away, New York State highway officer Juan Diaz saw a flash in the sky followed by a loud crack. “Lightning must have hit,” he thought turning his car around. A few minutes later, he saw Rena’s crumpled car. “I’ve got to help this young woman!”
“Are those footsteps?” Rena thought, hope rising as she lay there. Through the cocoon of wires, she saw a blue uniform. “Please help me!” she cried weakly. “Don’t move!” Diaz shouted, “I’m going to get you out!” But how? He worried.
Suddenly, the base of the pole burst into flames! Diaz felt a chill of fear. He knew it carried thousands of volts. He thought of his wife and five-year-old son at home. “But I can’t leave her here,” he thought. In a flash he swallowed his fear and stepped toward Rena. As he did, the powerful current stung his feet. But he didn’t stop.
At that moment, one of the wires jumped, leaving a three-foot opening in the cables around Rena. “Maybe I can drag her through there. It’s the only chance we have.” Cables hissed (发出嘶嘶声) inches from his feet, but Diaz just kept on walking, four steps, then five... finally he was by her side.
“Don’t worry,” he said gently, “We’ll make it.” Diaz grabbed Rena’s ankles, then dragged her through the narrow opening in the tangle of wires. “We’re almost there,” he said over and over. The sureness of his voice checked Rena’s terror.
Suddenly, Diaz took her up in his arms and ran 20 feet more, taking shelter behind the patrol car. “We did it!” he shouted. Just then the transformer exploded, engulfing the area in flames. They both realized: We didn’t have a second to spare.
1. What happened to Rena when driving home?A.Her car hit an electrical pole. |
B.An electrical pole fell onto her car. |
C.Her car turned over because of the wet road. |
D.Lightning hit her car and threw her onto the ground. |
A.She saw a police car nearby. |
B.She heard someone was coming. |
C.She realized that the pole hadn’t hit her. |
D.She knew the wires didn’t carry electricity. |
A.Rena looked like his wife. |
B.He missed his wife and his son. |
C.He thought it worthless to save Rena. |
D.He knew it might cost him his life to save Rena. |
A.Diaz’s courage and the strong transformer. |
B.Diaz’s boldness and the weak electrical current. |
C.Diaz’s carefulness and his electricity-proof uniform. |
D.Diaz’s bravery and the narrow opening left by a wire. |
6 . It was a day like any other. I awoke and stretched as the summer sun lay casually
As we
Tears
A.through | B.under | C.across | D.over |
A.passport | B.license | C.certification | D.account |
A.hung up | B.call on | C.pick up | D.ring up |
A.sell | B.repair | C.load | D.fetch |
A.struggled | B.lost | C.made | D.fought |
A.reminding | B.asking | C.informing | D.bothering |
A.wide | B.busy | C.quiet | D.narrow |
A.far | B.free | C.hard | D.close |
A.door | B.window | C.signal | D.wiper |
A.path | B.direction | C.mirror | D.truck |
A.managed | B.pretended | C.ordered | D.attempted |
A.normal | B.right | C.wrong | D.crazy |
A.applause | B.sound | C.click | D.tick |
A.scars | B.cuts | C.bones | D.bumps |
A.never | B.even | C.also | D.still |
A.ran out | B.welled up | C.squeezed out | D.held up |
A.before | B.until | C.after | D.while |
A.strike | B.touch | C.hurt | D.beat |
A.something | B.everything | C.nothing | D.anything |
A.to the end | B.to the point | C.to the extent | D.to the fullest |
It was the 9th of January, a day I will remember for a long time. It was a normal Sunday morning around 8:30 am, right on time for Sammy’s morning walk. I didn’t walk because of my lameness, so I rode in my power wheelchair. We got out the door and made our way toward a property near my apartment complex. We got to the gate and out of the complex, and we went left onto the extra wide sidewalk. It was about a mile’s walk one way , passing a firehouse on the right side of the road, before we turned around and started back.
Along the path we took was a large plate over the sidewalk. I passed over it the first time without any problems. My wheelchair could reach up to 8 miles per hour, but we went a little slower on our walks, around 2 miles per hour, so Sammy could keep up. Even so, this speed was pretty fast for a 15-year-old dog.
As we turned around and made our way back, I went over the sidewalk plate again except that this time it was moved without me realizing it, putting my wheelchair in the grass on the embankment (路堤). The next thing I knew, my wheelchair started to tip over, throwing me out of the chair and rolling down the embankment into the muddy water below.
My right leg was hurt, and I was unable to pull myself upright. I was too weak to gather my strength to call for help. The muddy water was cold and I felt it hard to breathe with my body folded and twisted in a strange position. Meanwhile, Sammy was sitting up on the sidewalk with his leash (牵狗皮带) caught under the tipped over wheelchair. I heard him barking louder than ever heard. He knew I was hurt and was in danger.
By the way my wheelchair tipped over, a passerby on the street would not be able to see it from the road. All anyone could see was a dog barking on the sidewalk almost night across the street from the firehouse.
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I could tell Sammy was trying to help me.
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Three firemen came to my dog’s aid finally.
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8 . 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. |
All-out search and rescue efforts were underway on Monday
Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital
President Xi ordered swift action to be taken
10 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs
Halfway, the plane was
At the moment, Eliot
Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t
A.hired | B.carried | C.visited | D.telephoned |
A.hit | B.assisted | C.banned | D.followed |
A.dangerous | B.appropriate | C.fortunate | D.necessary |
A.praying | B.cheering | C.reflecting | D.suffering |
A.work | B.appear | C.change | D.improve |
A.pilots | B.businessmen | C.employees | D.designers |
A.determined | B.hesitated | C.agreed | D.started |
A.bitter | B.human | C.casual | D.general |
A.in advance | B.on schedule | C.at bottom | D.for ages |
A.remarkably | B.completely | C.constantly | D.suddenly |
A.adjusted | B.examined | C.destroyed | D.found |
A.regretful | B.merciful | C.doubtful | D.hopeful |
A.busy | B.angry | C.mature | D.social |
A.wine | B.water | C.fruit | D.vegetables |
A.purified | B.sought | C.wasted | D.distributed |
A.went on | B.set out | C.broke down | D.took off |
A.landed | B.decorated | C.repaired | D.moved |
A.abandoned | B.rescued | C.condemned | D.informed |
A.withdrawn | B.sworn | C.participated | D.lied |
A.plane | B.traffic | C.desert | D.snow |