As I walked along the sidewalk in front of Surplus Unlimited, a car that was about to change my life had just turned onto Route 82 from the CVS parking lot. I looked up and noticed the elderly couple in the car heading toward me. As the car rolled past, the driver suddenly collapsed against the steering wheel (方向盘) right in front of my eyes. His wife stared blankly out of the passenger side window. She was unaware that her car was now rolling—without a conscious driver—down the center of a busy road.
I began to jog alongside the moving car. My mind assessed the situation. Somebody needed to stop that car!
I reached forward, but there was nothing to grab. I pounded on her window. She looked confused. “Roll down the window!” I yelled, gesturing wildly. With the window down, I was able to grab the doorframe. I pulled hard against the force of the moving vehicle. On the far side of the car, the traffic streamed by in the opposite direction. Cars passed one after another. Nobody slowed down. Nobody seemed to notice.
Thankfully, the driver’s foot must have slipped off the gas pedal (踏板) when he lost consciousness. I kept pulling, and the car began to slow.
Just then, a woman appeared from behind me. She ran alongside the driver side door. She opened the door and as the car was slowing, she managed to shift it out of “Drive”. A joyful “We did it!” feeling swept over me.
But the car was now stopped in the center lane (车道) with traffic still moving in both directions around us and we need to help this man. Quickly! The woman called 911 while I checked his vital signs. He was not breathing. He had no pulse. He had about five minutes until he was dead. CPR was needed in to time.
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Thoughts started running through my mind.
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In an instant, the man from the black SUV was standing beside me and said, “I am a doctor.”
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2 . One day, I was on my way to a concert when there was a heavy
The front of the bus was torn away. It was snowing
I asked him, “Baby, don’t worry. Just hold my hand.” But he was just frightened. A nurse immediately
A.rainstorm | B.sandstorm | C.snowstorm | D.windstorm |
A.Finally | B.Slowly | C.Quickly | D.Suddenly |
A.opened | B.closed | C.cleaned | D.washed |
A.right | B.yet | C.thus | D.still |
A.broken off | B.gone off | C.got off | D.set off |
A.outside | B.over | C.through | D.inside |
A.lost | B.thought | C.covered | D.hidden |
A.obvious | B.wrong | C.awkward | D.deathly |
A.Find | B.See | C.Comfort | D.Kiss |
A.front | B.back | C.seat | D.door |
A.holding | B.getting | C.taking | D.losing |
A.get in | B.get through | C.get up | D.get over |
A.legs | B.feet | C.hands | D.back |
A.try | B.take | C.bring | D.eat |
A.turned up | B.set up | C.picked up | D.broke up |
A.felt | B.made | C.wound | D.fought |
A.comfort | B.encourage | C.check | D.assist |
A.moved | B.taught | C.cured | D.found |
A.water | B.ice | C.bus | D.bed |
A.moved | B.astonished | C.satisfied | D.freezing |
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My grandfather had a car’s accident yesterday, which made me worried and sadly. The disaster is happened like this. My grandfather was working in a field. Feeling tiring, he sat beside the road to rest. All of a sudden, a truck changed its direction, rushed straight to my grandfather, but hit him heavily. The truck driver caused the accident due to speak on his cell phone. My grandfather didn’t get emergency care unless the ambulance arrived. After examination, it was found that my grandfather had several bone broken. He had to receive operations. The doctor said it would take long time for him to recover.
We should always take care of us as danger is everywhere.
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Today when I went for a walk, I found some people quarreling beside a car. Out of curious, I got close to see what had happened. A dog was finding lying beside the car and dead. It was the car which hit it to death! The dog owner was so anger that he shouted at the driver. He was asked the driver to pay for it. But the driver didn’t agree. The quarrel didn’t end until a policeman came.
After looking the video, the policeman said to a dog owner, “You didn’t tie your dog. It ran here and there. So it was not the driver’s fault but your. He needn’t pay anything.” Feel embarrassed, the dog owner left unhappy at the end.
5 . In 1840, Chicago was a small town of forty-five hundred souls. It ranked 92nd in population in the United States. Yet, only three decades later, by 1870 — just a year before the great fire — Chicago was closing in on a population of 300,000, making it the fifth-biggest city in America and the fastest-growing city in the world.
What led to all this rapid growth? In three words: location, location, location.
“Chicago was near the center of the country, and near where the waterways and railways met,” city historian Tim Samuelson notes. “It was a perfect place for anything and anyone to get anywhere...”
Timing had a lot to do with it, too. America was moving from a rural to an industrial power. Chicago was right in the middle of the action. Ironically, its rapid growth was almost its undoing. “Chicago had to build, and build quickly, and so they built it out of wood,” explained Sarah Marcus of the Chicago History Museum. “It was quick, it was easy, and it was cheap.”
And, as it turned out, very “easy” to catch fire.
By most accounts, the fire started on the city’s West Side, near the De Koven Street barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. No one is sure of the cause, but it could have been anything, from vandals (故意) to a drunken neighbor to that clumsy cow of urban legend.
Within minutes, the fire got out of control, tearing through Chicago’s business district. The fire was so hot, it created its own tornado of flame. By 3:30 a.m., all hope of saving large parts of the city was gone. Nearly 30 hours later, the fire finally died. The reason? There was nothing left to burn.
The losses were shocking: The fire took away nearly 300 lives, destroyed over 17,000 buildings covering almost 3.5 square miles, and caused damage of over $200 million—about 3.8 billion today. Roughly a third of the city lay in ruins, and one out every three people living in Chicago — nearly 100,000 residents — became homeless overnight.
1. Which paragraph describes the rapid growth of Chicago?A.paragraph 1. | B.paragraph 2. |
C.paragraph 4. | D.paragraph 5. |
① Chicago was built out of wood.
② Chicago had good transportation.
③ Timing was perfect.
④ Wood was cheap.
A.①③ | B.②④ | C.①④ | D.②③ |
A.happy | B.sad | C.nervous | D.hopeful |
A.The cause of the fire was clear. |
B.The fire was put out by firefighters. |
C.The fire caused great damage to Chicago. |
D.Lage parts of the city was saved. |
6 . Most people are hoping the recent stranding (搁浅) of the 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship (集装箱货运船) in the Suez Canal was a one-off---just a case of a very big ship getting stuck in a narrow waterway. However, more than 100 ships of similar size are passing through the world’s waterways, and even bigger ones are being built.
Capt.Andrew Kinsey, a senior marine-risk consultant (海洋风险顾问) for a global financial services firm, says with heavy weather in the North Pacific Ocean over the past year, a lot of containers are going overboard (落水). Part of the problem is the way the ultra-large ships handle at sea with towering stacks (堆叠) of containers, especially in strong winds.
Alan Murphy, chief executive of a container-shipping research and advisory firm in Copenhagen, Denmark, says it’s difficult to know whether there has been an increase in the number of containers going overboard or if trans-Pacific container losses over the past year have just received more attention.In a November report, the World Shipping Council found the number of such incidents to be falling in recent years, although the report does not cover 2020. There is no central database for reporting container losses, so it’s not known exactly how many containers fall overboard, Murphy says.
Murphy says container ships are often fully loaded nowadays, as demand for consumer products has jumped during the corona virus pandemic. “In the past, these huge ships have never really sailed as fully loaded as they are now,” he says.“Obviously, the more the ship carries, the greater the risk of an incident happening.”
“The stranding of Ever Given in the Suez Canal is a warning,” Kinsey says.“We’ve been bring up the issue of size in our yearly safety and shipping review and in papers for over five years.”
Carrying more containers needs bigger and wider ships, which means it is harder for them to sail through narrow waterways like the Suez Canal and move when they get stuck.
1. What can we imply from paragraph 1?A.It might be a tough task to build bigger ships. |
B.Costs of overseas shipments might rise sharply. |
C.There might be changes in the world’s waterways. |
D.More accidents like the recent stranding might happen. |
A.No database for reporting container losses had been created. |
B.Trans-Pacific container losses had received more attention. |
C.The number of container losses had dropped in recent years before 2020. |
D.More container losses happened in 2020 than in the past few years. |
A.The extreme weather. | B.The increasing size of ships |
C.The slow transportation. | D.The growing demand for consumer goods. |
A.Warnings about the risks of stranding are given yearly. |
B.Concern about larger ships has been voiced for some time. |
C.Some container ships can carry as many goods as Ever Given. |
D.Ships bigger than Ever Given won’t be allowed through the Suez Canal. |
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Two years before, I traveled to Brazil and I rented for a car. Unfortunate, I had an accident and hit another car, and I needed to stay in a hospital for at least two week. I called my parents, so I did not tell them what had happened. I knew that they would be worried about myself because I was so farther away, and that my mother would not sleep if she knew. Therefore, I told them interested stories and how I am enjoying Brazil. As a result, nobody knew truth. I still think that it was the right thing to do.
8 . Nicholas Rilling is a bright-eyed, active 5-year-old boy, normal in every way. What is
It was Oct, 17. The Maryland family were enjoying a vacation at a beach resort (旅游胜地) in Puerto Rico. The shallow (浅的) water suggested no
The sunlight dancing on the water made it difficult for Kent to see where his son was. After an anxious and hurried
“He just looked gray and his
For three days in hospital, Nick
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The family kept praying at his bedside, talking to him, hoping for a
After five days, Nick was well enough to
A.unusual | B.frightening | C.common | D.obvious |
A.illness | B.unconsciousness | C.coach | D.treatment |
A.help | B.food | C.care | D.oxygen |
A.danger | B.interest | C.difficulty | D.fish |
A.turned up | B.looked up | C.stayed up | D.cheered up |
A.search | B.hike | C.invitation | D.rescue |
A.swimming | B.sinking | C.floating | D.flowing |
A.rare | B.fancy | C.brief | D.still |
A.legs | B.eyes | C.lips | D.hands |
A.boat | B.beach | C.carpet | D.hospital |
A.remained | B.became | C.turned | D.went |
A.doctors | B.couples | C.friends | D.vacationers |
A.Angry | B.Excited | C.Sad | D.Hopeful |
A.pretend | B.recover | C.form | D.appreciate |
A.fun | B.luck | C.operation | D.experience |
A.speech | B.response | C.laugh | D.look |
A.book | B.friend | C.toy | D.cartoon |
A.leave | B.stay in | C.approach | D.rush to |
A.disappointing | B.interesting | C.near-death | D.favorite |
A.reunion | B.birthday | C.rebirth | D.dinner |
9 . When two ninth-grade students found smoke coming out of the back of their school bus early Tuesday morning,their bus driver knew just what to do. Thanks to her
While
Since then,Stroble,who has been a bus driver for seven years
The local fire department is still unsure what
A.careful | B.deep | C.kind | D.quick |
A.saved | B.shown | C.gotten | D.checked |
A.bringing | B.driving | C.inviting | D.walking |
A.gas | B.water | C.smoke | D.heat |
A.gradually | B.suddenly | C.finally | D.immediately |
A.anyone | B.someone | C.everyone | D.another |
A.found out | B.turned down | C.put out | D.cut down |
A.large | B.wide | C.fast | D.bright |
A.tired of | B.angry about | C.surprised at | D.worried about |
A.new | B.simple | C.good | D.active |
A.or | B.and | C.but | D.so |
A.praised | B.encouraged | C.helped | D.supported |
A.sure | B.fond | C.certain | D.proud |
A.serious | B.mad | C.calm | D.positive |
A.after | B.until | C.if | D.because |
A.hero | B.friend | C.teacher | D.leader |
A.controlled | B.fixed | C.ordered | D.caused |
A.topic | B.bus | C.source | D.detail |
A.Also | B.Besides | C.However | D.Later |
A.think | B.focus | C.stand | D.look |
Rescue in a Bottle
Curtis Whitson had rafted (v.乘筏) down the Arroyo Seco, a river in central California, several times before.
This year, Curtis Whitson knew the water-fall was coming. He figured he would get out of his raft into the shallow water, get down the rocks along ropes on either side of the falls, and continue on his way, as he had on a previous trip.
But this year was different. Heavy snow and spring rains had turned the usually manageable falls into something fierce. And this year, instead of his friends, Whitson’s companions were his girlfriend, Krystal Ramirez, and his 13-year-old son, Hunter. As the three of them approached the falls late in the afternoon of the third day of their camping trip, Whitson could tell from the increasing roar of water in the narrowing canyon(峡谷) that they were in serious trouble. There was no way they’d be able to get down the rocks as planned.
“The water was just roaring through there with tremendous force,” recalls Whitson, 45.
They had no smart phone service, and they hadn’t seen a single person in the past three days. And Whitson knew that they’d be sharing the ground there with rattlesnakes and mountain lions.
As he was thinking what to do, Whitson hit on a bit of luck---he heard voices coming from the other side of the falls. He yelled, but the sound of the rushing water drowned him out.
“We have to get these people a message,” Whitson thought.
He grabbed a stick and pulled out his pocketknife to carve “Help” in it. Then he tied a rope to it so the people would know it wasn’t just any stick. He tried throwing it over the falls, but it floated away in the wrong direction.
“We’ve got to do something!” Whitson yelled to his son. “Have we got anything else?”
Then he spotted his water bottle. Whitson grabbed it and carved “Help!”on it. Ramirez also reminded him that he had a pen and paper in his backpack.
Whitson knew it was a slim hope. But he wrote “6-15 19:00 We are stuck here@ the waterfall. Get help please” and pushed the note into the bottle. This time, his throw over the waterfall was perfect.
“All right, that’s all we can do,” Whitson told Hunter.
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It took 30 minutes to get back upstream to the beach where they’d had lunch.
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The next morning, the helicopter returned.
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