1 . It was late, about 10:15 p.m. Janice Esposito got off the train at Bellport, New York, went to her car and started driving home. She was so familiar with the route that she almost drove automatically: turned left to the Station Road, then another left onto Montauk Highway, and then—bam! When Esposito’s car had just crossed the railroad tracks, it hit another vehicle and was pushed back onto the tracks. Injured but mostly shocked by the crash and by the airbags that popped up, she was stuck in the vehicle.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto was just about to go to sleep when he heard a sharp noise and saw the accident not far outside his bedroom window. As a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, DiPinto, who was 65，fetched a flashlight and rushed out without hesitation. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he said. “We’re always on duty.”

At first, he spotted the other car in the accident. After making sure that the driver was all right, DiPinto looked around and discovered Esposito’s car straddling the railway tracks. And then he heard the bell ring, which signaled a train’s arrival.

DiPinto rushed to Esposito’s car and broke the window on the driver’s side. Esposito looked up at him, with her eyes glazing over. “I don’t know where I am,” she said.

“You’re on the railroad tracks，”DiPinto yelled. “I have to get you off right now! The train was running toward them at a speed of some 105 kilometers per hour. The driver’s door fail to be opened due to the collision(碰撞), so DiPinto quickly run to the other side and was able to open the door. He put the airbags aside, seized her arms, pulled her toward him across the passenger seat until finally got her out and walked her to safety as swiftly as possible. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the vehicle. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.

“Last night,” said Gregory Miglino Jr., Chief of the Department in South Country Ambulance, “the hero arrived in pajamas(睡衣裤), not in a fire truck.”

1. What can we know about the accident from Paragraph 1?

A．Esposito’s car hit another vehicle.

B．Esposito drove too fast.

C．Esposito didn’t know the route well.

D．A running train crashed into Esposito’s car.

2. How was Janice Esposito right after the accident?

A．She felt all right.	B．She was badly hurt.
C．She got stuck in the car.	D．She completely lost her consciousness.

3. How was Janice Esposito rescued from her car?

A．Through the window on the driver’s side.

B．Through the door on the driver’s side.

C．Through the window on the passenger’s side.

D．Through the door on the passenger’s side.

4. What did Gregory Miglino Jr. mean by “the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck”?

A．DiPinto was not a professional firefighter.

B．DiPinto rushed to save life without thinking about himself.

C．DiPinto was a special firefighter who preferred wearing pajamas.

D．DiPinto was unable to find a fire truck when the accident happened.

2 . What happened to the man?

A．He was rescued on the 16th floor.

B．He pressed the wrong button.

C．He got stuck in the lift.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

All-out search and rescue efforts were underway on Monday     1     a China Eastern Airlines aircraft     2     (carry) 132 people crashed in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the afternoon — ending China’s 12-year air safety record.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital     3     Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm and     4     (schedule) to arrive in Guangzhou at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi.     5     flight was carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew members. In the afternoon, fire and rescue teams discovered aircraft debris scattered in the forest. No     6     (remain) of passengers had been found yet.

President Xi ordered swift action to be taken     7     (find) out the cause of the crash     8     to strengthen the safety of the civil aviation sector (航空业) to ensure the     9     (absolutely) safety of the sector and     10     (people) lives.

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

2. From Paragraph 3, we know that Jennifer Fitzgerald _______.

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

3. Jennifer Fitzgerald filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago because the city _______.

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

4. After reading the passage we learn that Jennifer Fitzgerald _______.

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 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the son come back late?

A．He hurt his hands and knees.

B．He went to a pub with Linda.

C．He waited a long time for the bus.

2. What was the old lady doing in the middle of the road?

A．Looking for something.

B．Struggling to stand up.

C．Trying to seek help.

3. What happened to Linda?

A．She was fired.

B．She got injured.

C．She had an accident.

4. Where was the witness (目击者)?

A．Outside the pub.

B．At a bus stop.

C．In his car.

8 . Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ____ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ____ a driving offence (犯规，犯法). Then one day she nearly ____ her record. A police car ____ her, and the policemen in it saw her ____a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed ____ that she would be punished____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ____ old to drive a car, and that the ____why she had not stopped at the red ____ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ____ old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was ____, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ____ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ____ a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had ____ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was dismissed, and her record remained unbroken.1.

A．which

B．when

C．that

D．this

2.

A．about

B．on

C．to

D．for

3.

A．kept

B．won

C．missed

D．lost

4.

A．watched

B．after

C．followed

D．ran after

5.

A．pass

B．go

C．run

D．rush

6.

A．sure

B．indeed

C．certain

D．perhaps

7.

A．Before

B．While

C．Until

D．When

8.

A．so

B．very

C．too

D．quite

9.

A．cause

B．reason

C．matter

D．trouble

10.

A．light

B．lamp

C．sign

D．one

11.

A．with

B．because

C．for

D．of

12.

A．speaking

B．saying

C．talking

D．telling

13.

A．holding

B．getting

C．carrying

D．bringing

14.

A．took

B．brought

C．picked

D．chose

15.

A．almost

B．hardly

C．successfully

D．successful