2 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A couple，whom we shall call John and Mary, had a nice home and two lovely children. One day, John and Mary decided to go on a trip to another city, so they found a kind woman to look after the children and left.

Several days later, they returned home a little earlier than they had planned. As they drove back to their hometown, John and Mary noticed smoke and went to see what it was. They found a house was on fire.“Oh,well, it isn't our house. Let's go home,”Mary said.

But John drove closer and screamed in surprise，“That's Jordan's home. He works in a factory. He wouldn’t be off work yet. Maybe there is something we can do to help.”

“It has nothing to do with us,”cried Mary. “You have your good clothes on,so let's not get any closer.”

John didn't listen to Mary. He drove up and stopped. They were both shocked to see the whole house was on fire. A woman was crying in the yard, “The children! Get the children!”

John seized her by the shoulder and shouted to her, “Don't cry! Tell me where the children are!” “In the basement(地下室)，”cried the woman,“down the hall and to the left.”

John used water to get his clothes wet and put a wet towel on his head before rushing to the basement. The house was full of smoke and fire, and it was very difficult for him to find the children. But he made it. He held one under each arm. As he left，he could hear some more crying. He took the two kids out of the house and into the fresh air，and then asked the women how many more children were still down there.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好，请按照如下格式在答题卡相应位置作答；
Paragraph 1:

Thewoman told him there were two more.

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Paragraph 2:

As he took them out,he felt something strangely familiar about the little bodies.

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3 . It was an amazing feeling to be acknowledged for the Pride Of Britain award at No 10 Downing Street.

The last thing you expect when doing something as ordinary as picking your son up from a sleepover is to end up saving three people’s lives in a plane crash—but that’s exactly what happened to me in May this year.

I think I was acting unconsciously. I jumped out, leaving Giacomo in the car.

The plane was upside down and flames were coming out of the driver’s seat and I could hear screaming. I think there must have been roughly half a minute between getting the first and last person out. Then another guy—who turned out to be Joel Snarr—arrived on the scene to help at just the right time. I don’t think I’d have been able to get the pilot out—he was a big guy. There is no way he would have survived if Joel hadn’t been there. I could tell straight away Joel had a military background by how he conducted himself. We’d just got all three of them to a safe distance when the aircraft was completely swallowed by the flames.

Giacomo and I stared at each other, almost laughing in relief.

The emergency services arrived pretty quickly, and we were at the scene for a couple of hours while they dealt with the fire and cleared the roads. Afterwards I spoke to the family,and that was the first time the emotion of the whole thing hit me.I kept randomly bursting into tears.

Thankfully, Stuart Moore, the pilot, and his nephew and niece Jack Moore, 19, and Billie Manley, 16, have all since made a full recovery. Jack and Billie were suffering a lot more than I was. Although they were safe, the memory of being inside that burning plane would have been more of an emotional scar.

1. What do we know about the author?

A．He prided himself on being helpful.

B．He regretted having saved the family.

C．He was overcome by fear and despair then.

D．He was well equipped with first-aid knowledge.

2. What is the fourth paragraph mainly about?

A．Joel Snarr’s character.	B．The importance of teamwork.
C．The rescue process.	D．An investigation of the air crash.

3. Why did the author and Giacomo laugh in relief?

A．It was a narrow escape.

B．They both appreciated Joel’s help.

C．They both survived the crashing plane.

D．The emergency services arrived in time.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．An Unforgettable Award.	B．A Crashing Plane.
C．A Thrilling Rescue.	D．An Exciting Experience.

4 . My uncle will never forget what happened to him yesterday. Towards the evening, he was     1    (邀请) to an inn. He enjoyed his dinner with his friends,     2    (喝) a lot of wine As a r    3    , he got drunk. He insisted on driving home after the meal, although his friends tried to     4    (说服)him not to.       A few minutes later, he was winding his w    5     on the street.   And then his car ran     6    a tall tree. Fortunately, he was still alive, though s    7     injured. The police came to the scene, and he was taken to hospital. Naturally, he had to     8     in hospital for several days. W    9     still, his driving license was cancelled. How he regretted     10     he had done without listening to his friends.

5 .         The 4-year-old boy was mentally disabled, unable to speak in complete sentences and unable to play with other children because of his violent fits(发作) of hitting and biting.
       The decision facing one Brooklyn jury（陪审团）was how much a landlord should pay in damages to the boy — named “G.M.M.” in court documents — after an investigation showed he had been living in an apartment illegally coated with lead paint.
       Attorneys（律师） representing G.M.M. said $3.4 million was the right number, arguing that the boy would have had a bright career ahead of him; both of his parents had graduated from college and his mother received a master’s degree. But the landlord’s defense put the figure at less than half that — $1.5 million. Attorney Roger Archibald noted that because the boy was Hispanic, G.M.M. was unlikely to attain the advanced education that would provide to such a large income.
       The 4-year-old’s case is a rare public look at one corner of the American legal system that explicitly uses race and gender to determine how much victims or their families should receive in compensation（赔偿） when they are seriously injured or killed.
       As a result, white and male victims often receive larger awards than people of color and women in similar cases. These differences largely derive from projections of how much more money individuals would have earned over their lifetimes had they not been injured — projections that take into account average earnings and employment levels by race and gender.
1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Description of the boy’s damage.

B．Situation of the boy’s family.

C．Compensation for the boy’s damage.

D．Advantages of American legal system.

2. What can we conclude from the passage?

A．The boy’s illness resulted from the lead paint of the apartment.

B．The compensation mainly depends on the costs for treatment.

C．The boy would earn a lot of money without the injury.

D．The jury is in favor of the G.M.M attorneys in the boy’s case.

3. What factors seem to affect the jury’s decision?

A．Gender and education.

B．Race and gender.

C．Race and education.

D．Social status and education.

4. What does the author feel about the boy’s case?

A．Angry.

B．Satisfied.

C．Unjust.

D．Optimistic.