1 . Nearly two years ago, Lauren Kornacki, a recent college graduate, walked outside her family’s home in Virginia to ask her dad if she could borrow his car. As she rounded the corner from the front yard into the garage, Lauren, saw her father, Ale, lying unconscious, pinned on his back beneath his car. The car had fallen off the jack while he was changing the brake pads on the right rear tire.

Lauren yelled inside at her mother to call emergency services, and then ran to the car. “I thought, I’m going to lose my dad,” she says. Unsure of what to do, she stuck both hands under the wheel hub where Alec had removed the tire and pulled up with all her strength. To her surprise, she lifted the car. Then she held it up with one arm and, with the other, pulled her father out from under the car by his pants leg.

Alec wasn’t breathing, so Lauren, a lifeguard certified in CPR, began performing chest compressions. Within seconds, Alec took a breath and opened his eyes. “Stay with me,” Lauren whispered as they waited for the ambulance. “Just keep breathing.”

Doctors treated Alec for five fractured ribs, a fractured sternum, and fractured vertebrae, but he was able to return to his job as an IT professional two months later. Lauren, now a computer engineer, says she didn’t stop to think. “Everyone has a basic instinct to help the ones they love,” she say.

1. What had happened about her father when Lauren arrived at the garage?

A．He was replacing a part of his car.

B．He was lying at the right side of his car.

C．He was pressed under his car out of consciousness.

D．He was repairing the right rear tire of his car on the jack.

2. Why was Lauren surprised when she lifted the car?

A．Her father could escape the death.	B．She hadn’t expected her effort so effective.
C．She was very anxious to save her father.	D．The car was not that heavy as she thought.

3. What might make Lauren’s father come back to himself so quickly?

A．Professional emergency service.	B．Unconditional love from a daughter.
C．A strong and tough body.	D．A timely professional first aid.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．The Girl Lifted a Car off Her Dad	B．The Gil Breathed Life into Her Dad
C．Dad Got Pinned Beneath a Car	D．A Loving Daughter and a Lucky Dad

2 . Why does the woman apologize to the man?

A．She lost his bags.

B．She ran into him.

C．She forgot his name.

3 . Why was the man late?

A．He missed the bus.

B．A bus ran into his car.

C．His bus had an accident.

5 . On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were rescued by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.

The ______, aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passerby saw them ______ in dangerous waves. Lifesavers ______ sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the ______.

The drone, known as “Little Pipper”, was actually not ______ to be saving anyone just yet---lifeguards were being trained to ______ the machine. When a call came about the swimmers ______, the drone happened to be nearby.

Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who ______ the drone. He described the experience as ______. “The Little Ripper ______ proved itself today. It is a highly efficient (高效的) piece of lifesaving equipment. I was ______ the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers, and dropped the ______. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ______, but not hurt. The teens were rescued in just 70 seconds with the drone---while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to ______ the rescue.”

John Barilaro, an official of the state, ______ the rescue as historic. “It was the world’s ______ rescue by the unmanned aircraft”, he said. “Never before has a drone been used to ______ swimmers like this.”

Last December, the NSW state government ______ some “Little Ripper” drones for 247,000 pounds. ______ some are designed to spot sharks, others are ______ with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. “It was money well spent,” said John Barilaro.

1.

A．swimmers

B．pilots

C．visitors

D．rescuers

2.

A．playing

B．surfing

C．struggling

D．training

3.

A．finally

B．secretly

C．immediately

D．gratefully

4.

A．island

B．ship

C．hospital

D．shore

5.

A．advised

B．supposed

C．allowed

D．guided

6.

A．operate

B．repair

C．work

D．power

7.

A．in charge

B．in place

C．in action

D．in trouble

8.

A．flew

B．brought

C．checked

D．designed

9.

A．funny

B．useful

C．amazing

D．important

10.

A．necessarily

B．basically

C．probably

D．certainly

11.

A．studying

B．piloting

C．boarding

D．inspecting

12.

A．lifebelt

B．lifeline

C．lifeguard

D．lifeboat

13.

A．sick

B．tired

C．excited

D．surprised

14.

A．record

B．complete

C．experience

D．report

15.

A．thanked

B．greeted

C．imagined

D．praised

16.

A．latest

B．best

C．first

D．quickest

17.

A．rescue

B．warn

C．protect

D．reward

18.

A．offered

B．bought

C．booked

D．made

19.

A．Since

B．Unless

C．While

D．Before

20.

A．equipped

B．connected

C．covered

D．filled

6 . How many people were safe and sound in the accident?

A．103.

B．127.

C．134.

7 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．An accident.

B．A restaurant.

C．A cook.

9 . I discovered the power of fear when I became stuck to my driveway, as if my feet were crazy-glued to the cement (水泥). As much as I tried, I could not move them. The realization that my daughters were playing in Nancy's house, just one-half block away, paralyzed (麻痹) my legs, making me unable to move when I neared the end of our driveway. Dense, black smoke was rising from behind the Sycamore Maple trees on the other side of the street and was enveloping three houses, making them barely visible. Nancy's house was one of them.

I tried to call out for my daughters, hoping to see them run safely to my arms, but my voice was also stuck-stuck in my throat with no intention of coming out. There I stood, helpless, paralyzed and silenced by fear, unable to protect the two lttle girls I loved more than even I had realized.

Although trapped in a body that couldn't move or speak, I could still hear. I could hear other mothers anxiously calling their children. I could hear a frightening silence that covered the neighborhood instead of the usual happy voices of children. And, finally, I could hear the alarm of the fire engine. As the alarm announced, "We're on our way," it instantly dissolved the crazy glue that had held my feet to the cement and it unlocked the soundproof box that had silenced my voice. I was free to make sure my daughters were safe.

As I continued down the driveway, two little girls, my two little girls, ran toward me from across the street. They had come home to tell me about the fire in the garage next to Nancy's house. Not only did my feet and voice work now, but my eyes were also in good working order and had no trouble producing tears.

1. Why was the author stuck to her driveway?

A．She was too tired to move her legs.

B．Thick black smoke blocked her view.

C．The cement on the driveway was still wet.

D．The fear for her daughters' safety struck her.

2. What made the author able to move and speak again?

A．Shouting from other anxious mothers.	B．Strange silence in the neighborhood.
C．The alarm of the coming fire engine.	D．The courage to protect her daughters.

3. What does the author suggest at the end of the story?

A．She burst into tears of relief and happiness.

B．She was really thankful to see her girls saved.

C．She was too excited to believe what she saw.

D．She overcame her fear and fully recovered.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Love in Fire	B．Stopped in Silence
C．A Narrow Escape	D．The Price of Fear

10 . 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容 (1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

A fifteen-year-old boy     1    ( name) Justin Foster in Dover, New Hampshire went missing two days ago. It was not until the lunchtime the next day that he    2    (find) missing. His mother became     3     ( worry) and asked her husband to call the police. People offered many different explanations for his    4     (disappear). Kelly, his sister, said that Justin did return home the night before and even     5     (hear) him put on his favourite CD. She said she happened to see a large spaceship     6     (fly) outside, so she thought Justin must have been taken away     7     aliens. Some people also said that they themselves experienced this kind of thing. But Detective Sam Peterson,    8    took charge of the case(案例), said that there was     9    ( real) no hard evidence (证据) that aliens took him, and they wouldn’t give up until they found out    10    had happened.