Miners have dangerous jobs because occasionally the earth sinks or falls apart. When this happens, miners are
In August 2010, 33 miners
2 . It was rush hour on the morning of June 1 in the West Texas city of San Angelo. Heather Santellano, 36, was driving her white 2012 Mazda on Houston、 Harte Frontage Road with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year- old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck cut them off. Santellano turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda skidding off the road and down an embankment(堤)that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn't stop, it would go airborne and plunge onto the road some 20 feet below.
Then a bit of luck: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got stuck on the cement lip of the embankment ledge, stopping it cold. The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a retaining wall, literally teetering(摇摇欲坠)on the edge of disaster. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.
Jacob Rodriguez watched the scene unfold from the 'T'ruck Repair Plant where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They leaped onto the trunk to balance the weight as the terrified kids in the back seat watched.
Meanwhile, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jabs at nearby Premier Automotive. Julio jumped out of the car to help while Marco went to the shop, grabbed a heavy-duty strap(皮带),and returned to the swinging car. He fastened the Mazda to an P-350 truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car secured, the group carefully opened the back doors and helped the children out.
But their departure shifted the car's weight, causing it to lean forward. The men, still on-the trunk, asked Santellano to jump into the back seat to rebalance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully got off the trunk. Everyone was safe.
1. What do we know about Heather Santellano?A.She was a careless driver. | B.She drove her twins to school. |
C.She ran into a pickup truck. | D.She made a sharp turn to avoid the truck. |
A.Stress the coming of good fortune. | B.Describe the car's dangerous situation. |
C.Add some background information. | D.Explain why people came to the rescue. |
A.Balance. | B.Cooperation. |
C.Calmness. | D.Gravity. |
A.Persistence will pay off. . | B.One in trouble, all to help.、 |
C.Many hands make light work. | D.Love makes the world go round. |
1. What might the woman’s job be?
A.She’s a diver. | B.She’s a lifeguard. | C.She’ a swimming instructor. |
A.The woman. | B.One of the students. | C.The man’s colleague. |
A.Immediately. | B.Ten minutes later. | C.Twenty minutes later. |
A.She didn’t know what happened. |
B.She went back in the pool. |
C.She cried. |
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删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Yesterday, when Chen Hui was pouring hot water, he poured a lot into his wrist by accident. Although he felt great pain, but he didn’t know what to do. I happened to see this and immediate gave him first aid. Firstly, I asked him place the burns under running water for 10 minutes. After that, I put some cloth in cold water, squeezed the water out and placed them on the burning area over and over again. Finally, I covered the burns with the clean bandage. Gradually, he felt much better, that made me happy and proud of myself. Chen Hui expresses his thanks and said he would gain some knowledge of first aid so that I could offer help to others when needed.
It was 11:30 a.m, and the fishing so far had been fruitless. Not another boat in sight. Andrew Sherman spotted a speck (斑点) on the horizon. As the speck approached, it started to look like a boat. “Jack,” he yelled to his son. “A boat headed straight at us!” Unbelievable. Miles of open ocean, and this boat was on course to T-bone them.
The Shermans stared at the interloper (闯入者) in surprise. Four fishing lines out, music blaring, except there wasn’t a soul in sight. The captain must have gone below, leaving his boat sailing along at 10 mph.
“Follow it, Jack,” Andrew said.
Jack hit the gas. “Hey! Hey!” the Shermans shouted. Nothing. A horrifying new thought took shape: The captain had gone below, all right—and suffered a heart attack.
Father and son switched places, and Andrew drove their boat alongside the other while Jack jumped onto the other boat’s deck, bringing the boat to a stop. Then he ventured down into the cabin. He came back up a moment later. “Empty,” he said.
“It’s a ghost boat!” said father and son nearly at the same time.
Andrew called the Coast Guard. “Man overboard,” he told them. The two men could have left it, but they were curious: What happened to the captain? The boat’s GPS system told them the missing captain had marked points along his route indicating good fishing spots. Then the points suddenly stopped a few miles back.
With Andrew driving the ghost boat and Jack driving their own craft, they headed for that last point. They were searching for what they feared would be a body.
What they didn’t know was that the ghost boat’s owner was alive in the water and growing worn out.
Two hours earlier, Sascha Scheller had been fishing when nature called. He leaned over to relieve himself, zipped up, turned back toward the helm (舵柄), and slipped.
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Suddenly he was in the water.
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Only when the boat approached did it dawn on Scheller: “That’s my boat!”
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1. Who is the speaker probably?
A.A bank manager. |
B.A supermarket manager. |
C.A supermarket detective. |
A.The causes of theft. |
B.The prevention of theft. |
C.The characteristics of thieves. |
A.Lowering goods prices. |
B.Putting alarms on goods. |
C.Using monitoring equipment. |
1. What was the speaker driving to do?
A.Go to his office. | B.Pick up his son. | C.Go to the post office. |
A.Drinks. | B.Swimsuits. | C.Fruits and bread. |
A.A traffic jam. | B.A flat tire. | C.An engine failure. |
A.Worried. | B.Depressed. | C.Relieved. |
It was February 16, 2019, at 8a. m. when my girlfriend, Jessika McNeill, and I arrived at Utah’s Zion National Park. We’d traveled from our home in Mesa, Arizona, to hike the nine-mile-long Subway Track, so named because of its amazing tunnel-shaped canyon (峡谷). Halfway through our track, which included climbing over huge rocks and crossing streams, the sunshine gave way to a light snow. Soon after, we reached the walls of the Subway Track. A small pond stood in our way, with the track continuing on the other side. Because the pond looked shallow, we began to get through, with Jessika leading the way.
About five feet from the edge, her front foot sank into the sandy bottom. Then she fell forward and both legs started to sink. I rushed, grabbed her under the shoulders, and pulled her out of the muck (淤泥). She climbed back to shore. But now I was sinking. The muck came all the way up to my right leg and my left ankle. I freed my left leg but couldn’t move my right. Jess handed me a long stick we’d picked up earlier in the hike. I jammed it down the side of my leg and tried to move and pull it out. Nothing. I was stuck in quicksand.
Jessika started scooping (挖出) sand with both hands, but it was refilling faster than she could pull it out. ”Don’t bother,“ I told her. ”You’re just wasting your energy.“ While I was no longer sinking, I wasn’t getting out, either. We couldn’t call for help because there was no signal there. I told Jessika she had to hike back and seek help. She was scared-she had only ever hiked with me and was afraid of hiking alone on such a tough track. But we were out of options.
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A few hours after Jessika left, it was getting dark and started to snow heavily.
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A whistle woke me up, spotting a flashlight through my jacket, I cried for help.
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Kelly was driving through rural Alabama with her five-year-old son, Rocky Lyons. He was asleep on the front seat of their pickup truck, with his feet resting on her lap.
As Kelly drove carefully down the winding two-lane country road, she turned onto a narrow bridge. As she did, the truck hit a large hole and slid off the road, and the right front wheel got stuck in a deep track. Fearing the truck would tip over, she attempted to jerk (急拉) it back up onto the road by pressing hard on the gas pedal and spinning the steering wheel to the left. But Rocky’s foot got caught between her leg and the steering wheel and she lost control of the pickup truck.
The truck flipped over and over down a 20-foot narrow valley. When it hit bottom, Rocky woke up. “What happened, Mama?” he asked. “Our wheels are pointing toward the sky.”
Kelly was blinded by blood. The gear shift (变速杆) had jammed into her face, ripping it open from lip to forehead. Her gums were torn out, her cheeks pulverized (粉状的), her shoulders crushed. With one broken rib sticking out of her body, she was pinned against the crushed door.
“I’ll get you out, Mama,” announced Rocky, who had miraculously escaped injury. He crawled out from under Kelly, slid through the open window and tried to pull his mother out. But she didn’t move.
“Just let me sleep,” begged Kelly, who was drifting in and out of consciousness.
“No, Mama,” Rocky insisted. “You can’t go to sleep.”
Rocky wriggled back into the truck and managed to push Kelly out of the wreckage. He then told her he’d climb up to the road and stop a car to get help. Fearing that no one would be able to see her little boy in the dark, Kelly refused to let him go alone. Instead they slowly crept up the embankment (路堤), with Rocky using his thin 40-pound frame to push his 104-pound mother.
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2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
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4. 续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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They crawled inches at a time.
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It took 8 hours and 344 stitches (缝针) to rebuild Kelly’s face.
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10 . There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year-old was hanging out in a parking area underneath a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway in July when a car with three teenage girls inside rushed off a boat ramp and into the Pascagoula River. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. The driver, Evans would learn, had blindly followed wrong directions from her GPS.
It was around 2:30 a. m. by the time Evans got to the river’s edge. In the darkness, he could barely make out the girls clinging to the roof, the only part of the car still, barely, above water. But he could hear screaming.
Evans ripped off his shirt and shoes, tossed his phone down, then dived into the water, a river he knew alligators (鳄鱼) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, keeping her head above water, led her ashore.
Just then, a man called out. Police Officer Garry Mercer had arrived. He dived into the river to help another of the girls. But halfway back to shore, she panicked and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.
Evans jumped back into the water and helped them until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.
There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping water, struggling to stay afloat. And scared.
“I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’and I thought she was going to the dogs,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi.
“I just knew my last breath was coming,” Watson said. “My mind said, You’re slowly losing yourself.” She began to go under. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed me.”
The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans risked his life to save them. They’re alive, says his mother, Marquita Evans, because Corion Evans broke his curfew.
But she’s not mad, she told the Post. “He had a good reason.”
1. According to paragraph 1, what can we know about the accident?A.The three teenage girls were about to hang out when they dropped into the river. |
B.The wrong navigation confused the driver and caused the accident. |
C.The car drove about 20 feet from the land and stopped on the water. |
D.The car crashed into the river while driving on a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway. |
A.During the rescue, some alligators attacked them. |
B.Evans saved the lives of the three girls and Officer Mercer. |
C.The first two rescued girls can swim. |
D.Seeing three girls who fell into the water, Evans called the police. |
A.Dying. |
B.Dangerous. |
C.Awkward. |
D.Nervous. |
A.Indifferent. |
B.Critical. |
C.Proud. |
D.Angry. |