I’ve always known that I’m very quick with my hands. If someone throws something, I catch it almost before I’m aware it has been thrown. When I was young, I had no idea how useful this skill would become.
Last week, I was going to visit a friend with her newborn and was on my way to a toy store to buy a gift. I’d once lived in the neighbourhood and I decided to head back to my old cupcake shop for a coffee. Sitting alone at a table outside with my drink, I was approached by an older man, who in a calm and very matter-of-fact way told me to call 911, because there was a baby on a fire escape.
I jumped up to see where the baby was. I was so surprised to see it, wearing a little onesie (连体衣) and lying on the fire escape railings (栏杆) between the second and third storeys. I was nervous, so the baby boy became my only priority.
As I was on the phone to the emergency services, I made eye contact with the child, keeping him calm, telling him to stay there. Some people were going up the stairs to find the parents, who were apparently sleeping through the whole drama.
I just wanted the child to feel safe. I hoped he’d stay there until somebody could rescue him. Apparently he had slipped through pieces of cardboard placed next to an air-conditioning unit in the window, and without bars to protect him he’d crawled (爬) out and up the fire escape towards the next storey. He was only 16 months old. For him to even climb up and balance in that position was incredible.
Then he slipped. Instinctively (本能), he grabbed on the railing as he fell, hanging by his arms. I knew he couldn’t hold on, 25 feet above the street, for long. I sensed people had gathered behind, but my attention was purely focused on my intention to catch the baby.
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I made sure I was positioned to catch him.
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I pepped(窥视)through the comer of my eyes. I could hear them
“Samantha, you want to celebrate your birthday...”
I rolled
“Doctor please come quickly...” I could hear the lady
Soon the doctor came rushing. He closely
I tried hard to recollect but the doctor patted on my hands and said, “it’s
The door opened and my parents along with my sister Miranda walked in. All their
My entire body was bound with
Within minutes I felt my body growing weak, and I struggled for
“Welcome to my kingdom, my little lamb. I have waited years for you”. I held his hands tightly as He led my way to a new
| A．how | B．whether | C．when | D．why |
| A．angry | B．disappointed | C．asleep | D．uninterested |
| A．whispering | B．shouting | C．praying | D．preparing |
| A．policy | B．humor | C．game | D．fun |
| A．up and down | B．in and out | C．round and round | D．back and forth |
| A．lady | B．adult | C．queen | D．goddess |
| A．dreams | B．realities | C．ashes | D．benefits |
| A．everything | B．anything | C．something | D．none |
| A．pushed | B．hit | C．supported | D．forbidden |
| A．worn | B．worked | C．dressed | D．seemed |
| A．hospital | B．club | C．ambulance | D．lab |
| A．tested | B．scanned | C．watched | D．examined |
| A．weird | B．meaningless | C．incredible | D．okay |
| A．appearances | B．expressions | C．faces | D．minds |
| A．service | B．position | C．convenience | D．side |
| A．medicine | B．presents | C．bandages | D．injuries |
| A．slowly | B．fast | C．regularly | D．strangely |
| A．control | B．breath | C．strength | D．courage |
| A．figure | B．star | C．ghost | D．sheep |
| A．heaven | B．hell | C．death | D．birth |
3 . Peru demanded compensation (赔偿金) Wednesday from Spanish energy giant Repsol over an oil spill (石油泄漏). It might be caused by sudden and big
Authorities
Officials of the factory
The oil-processing factory could face a
| A．fishes | B．waves | C．fires | D．stones |
| A．closed | B．discovered | C．destroyed | D．named |
| A．before | B．unless | C．until | D．after |
| A．uploading | B．repairing | C．offloading | D．supplying |
| A．agricultural | B．snowy | C．ecological | D．nuclear |
| A．waste | B．damage | C．crime | D．storm |
| A．fishing | B．poor | C．teaching | D．rich |
| A．escape | B．advertisement | C．encouragement | D．payment |
| A．in advance | B．in air | C．at risk | D．at work |
| A．measuring | B．decorated | C．swimming | D．covered |
| A．recovering | B．affecting | C．creating | D．leaving |
| A．traditionally | B．proudly | C．originally | D．honestly |
| A．clean up | B．take up | C．build up | D．cut up |
| A．animals | B．people | C．plants | D．zones |
| A．specialists | B．students | C．journalists | D．stars |
| A．impressed | B．spent | C．blamed | D．put |
| A．truck | B．ship | C．line | D．store |
| A．failure | B．fine | C．prize | D．fund |
| A．environment | B．education | C．finance | D．defense |
| A．organization | B．entrance | C．account | D．investigation |
Ken Scott kicked off the covers and leapt out of bed at his home in the Rocky Mountain town of Mullan, Idaho. He’d just heard on the radio that the nearby Silver Mountain Resort had been blessed with nearly a foot and a half of new snow. As an experienced ski addict, he didn’t want to miss this big golden opportunity. These conditions are what skiers live for.
When Scott reached Silver Mountain’s locker room, he came across his friend Paul, a former ski instructor who had also been a regular on these slopes for more than two decades. Both of them were exhilarated. Before setting off, it was Paul’s routine to check his phone tightly fixed inside his parka (风 雪外套). For the next hour the pair skied on various runs under a lightly dull sky, making fresh tracks. They were both in a playful mood, laughing as they tackled the steep runs.
Almost immediately, the snow beneath their feet gave way. In a millisecond, Paul realized what was happening. “Avalanche! (雪崩)” he yelled to Scott, who was not far behind. Scott responded. The sudden snow slide caused fear in his voice. “This is happening!” Instantly, both were hit by a mass of snow that would hit and carry them some 500 feet down the mountain. Scott felt it surrounding and enclosing him, moving quickly up his back and over his shoulders, then heavy against his neck. Snow filled the space in front of him and piled up around the whole of him. Paul, too, was swept downhill.
They remembered the avalanche survival lessons they had learned. Keep your head up. Try to swim. Stay on top of the snow. But the snow was too powerful and they felt themselves rolling like a load of clothes in a washing machine. When Scott finally came to rest, he was lying on his left side and completely buried, skis and poles still attached.
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Paul was luckier, ending up partially buried and probably surviving.
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Recalling the terrible experience, Scott thanked his friend and the rescue team.
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It was the summer when I turned 18. I was filled with excitement because of my new freedom of driving. I drove carefully with my new license. Along with this new privilege came new responsibilities. I would perform the same routine — call my parents and tell them where I was going, who I was with, and when I would be home. It became a typical cycle.
I had been working all day in the hot sun. I was exhausted and ready for a nap. But my stomach told me something different. So I called my friend Mike and made our way into town. After our meal, we had no idea that our day would soon change for the worse.
It takes one moment to shift your life upside down. I vividly remember I was driving fast. Too fast. I came to the conclusion two years later, that the mistake would be with me for the rest of my life.
Mike and I were driving down a dusty gravel(沙砾) road. I was driving a shiny black Saturn, which was the car I admired for long. I was very proud to be driving it. It was perfect in my eyes. I could see the rolling hills in the distance. Tall pine trees traveled on both sides of the road. With the music playing, we were enjoying ourselves. Somehow, without realizing it, I sped up the car.
Coasting（滑行) freely in my car, we came across a loose spot of gravel. My tyres were stuck in it and desperate to escape. My car started fishtailing. In panic, I pressed hard on the brakes（刹车） and instantly the car lost control. I got into panic, frozen with terror. Looking to the right, I took a glimpse of Mike. His body had leaned toward me. He was trying to prepare himself for the coming crash. The car was rushing left to right, coasting along the gravel like it was ice. Moments later, the front of my car crashed head-on into a tree.
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I heard a loud sound of my car hitting the tree.
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Luckily enough, Mike and I were not so seriously hurt.
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It was a very cold morning as it had been raining very heavily the previous night. As my mother was feeling a little uncomfortable, my sister volunteered to drive me to school. I overslept and as a result, was a bit late for school. We got into the car hurriedly. The roads were already jammed with traffic. It appeared that everyone was late as well.
My sister was a careful driver and despite the fact that I was late, she refused to drive fast on the slippery road. I was lucky she was such a determined and careful person because a few hundred meters away from the school, we witnessed an accident.
It all happened in an instant, as most accidents do. A car took a left turning without signaling and a school bus crashed into it heavily. A few cars behind the school bus hit the bus as they could not stop in time and soon it became a pile-up. The car was damaged badly while the school bus also had some damage. And the already crowded road became more jammed with vehicles, which came to a mess. We wanted to help the victims. My sister drove to a stop at the roadside not too far from the accident spot.
The scene that greeted us was terrible. I first rushed to the car. The driver, a lady, lay trapped behind the wheel, unable to move. Three schoolchildren were in the back seat, their faces white with fear. Two of them were seriously hurt and bleeding from the head and hands. They were conscious although too weak and frightened to realize what had happened. We called an ambulance and while waiting, we tried as much as possible to help the victims. As a result of our joint efforts, the driver and the children were moved to safety and taken care of.
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Then, I rushed to the bus filled with children’s cries.
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After the ambulance had left, two policemen asked me about the accident.
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On a sunny Saturday in June, Alyson, 3, squealed(尖叫) with laughter as she and her mother, Marlen, played hide-and-seek in the front yard of their home. With Marlen close behind, tiny Alyson flashed into the backyard of an elderly neighbor. About halfway across the yard, Alyson suddenly disappeared, seemingly swallowed whole by a barely visible opening in the ground. Marlen screamed.
The neighbor’s caretaker, Luz, 26, was preparing dinner in the neighbor’s kitchen and assumed the shrieks were the sounds of children playing. But she ran outside anyway and found Marlen sobbing and Alyson’s sister Damary, 25, kneeing on the grass, dialing 911.
“Alyson fell in the hole！” Damary cried to Luz. Luz gave a quick glance down the hole in disbelief and saw only darkness. Then she heard Alyson’s wails(哭泣) from deep underground. “Hang on there, sweety. We’ll get you out soon.”
Luz ran inside the house and down to the basement for a ladder,which happened to be not very long. She then settled for a gray extension cord(延长线) to use as a rope with which to rappel(用绳索下降) into the hole. Back in the yard, she and Damary used their hands to dig at the hole, widening the opening from 7 inches in diameter to about 20 inches.Marlen sat on the grass,too distracted to help.
At the thought that Alyson might get hurt and was too young to grasp and climb the rope on her own, Luz made up her mind to go down herself. When the police detective Aaron arrived a few minutes later, Luz was already in the hole up to her waist.
“Get out of here,” the officer told Luz, lifting her up by the arm. “It’s dangerous for you.”
“It’s more dangerous for the Baby,” she argued, “She’s going to die.”
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The detective begged Luz to wait for help, but she determined.
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Minutes later, the Fire Department and Rescue Squad arrived.
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One of my most memorable trips took place during the summer vacation about three years ago, when my sister, my aunt and I took a trip to Spain because we were moving. On the day of the trip, I lay in bed thinking about my friends whom I was going to leave behind and thoughts were flooding in.
When we arrived at the hire station, we seemed to have some problems with our luggage because it was too much for a taxi, so we had to book a van (厢式送货车) to take our luggage to the airport. We waited for a long period to find a perfect van that would fit our luggage.
Before leaving, I felt very bad because I was going to a different country and was going to miss all my friends and family. I was not comfortable and cried.
The journey was almost perfect at the beginning, but soon it began to rain. Because of the rain, the drivers could not see far away, which caused a huge traffic jam. I was sitting by the window with a can of Coke that I had bought in the store earlier. My aunt and sister fell asleep, and during this time. I felt bored and thought about other things that bothered me. My eyes turned to the mountain in front of us.
A bus suddenly appeared in the picture. It was very close to us. Cars sped past us without any speed limit. Beside me was a very deep lake: I wondered to myself what if something or someone fell inside it. Suddenly, a bus in front of our van stopped, and because it was raining heavily and the van was going fast, no one could see what was going to happen. Then, bang, we bumped into each other. Our van overturned, but luckily, it didn’t fall into the lake. People came to help us get out of the van because we were blocked and the driver was half-dead.
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We struggled to get out of the van and everything we had was gone.
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I was losing a lot of blood and then the emergency aid came.
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9 . In the fall of 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance (耐力号) sank off the coast of Antarctica. While all of the expedition’s 28 crew eventually were rescued, the ship’s final resting place has remained a much-discussed maritime mystery. That is, until today. A team of researchers has announced they’ve located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, almost the northernmost part of Antarctica.
Endurance was backed by the British government and private donors and supported by Winston Churchill to deliver a group of explorers to the coast of Antarctica and then travel overland across the continent via the South Pole.
It set out from South Georgia on December 5, 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. But the enemy that Shackleton and his men faced was of a different sort. The Weddell Sea, covering an area of more than a million square miles, is one of the most remote and unforgiving environments in the world, littered with icebergs and roiled by strong surface winds. Shackleton called it “the worst sea in the world.”
The expedition made good progress at first, but as the Antarctic winter of 1915 closed in, the men found themselves trapped in the sea ice on Tuesday, October 26. The next day, the men removed tools, instruments, and provisions and set up camp on the ice floe. Endurance finally sank on November 27. Shackleton famously said, “What the ice gets, the ice keeps.” . But Endurance’s story did not end with the ship’s sinking.
In 2019, the Falklands Heritage Maritime Trust began its first expedition to find the ship but had been unable to locate the wreck. This winter, they tried again, organizing and funding Endurance22.
One of the toughest problems, besides the sea ice, was establishing the ship’s location. After Endurance was initially trapped in the ice, it continued to drift as the floes moved with the current. Due to poor visibility on the day the men abandoned the ship, however, the captain had been unable to take proper measurements that would help calculate the direction and speed of the floes.
1. Which can show the positions of Weddell Sea and Antarctica?A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．Endurance hasn’t been found since the fall of 1915. |
| B．Endurance was only supported by Winston Churchill. |
| C．Ernest Shackleton died and sank off the coast of Antarctica in the fall of 1915. |
| D．Ernest Shackleton’s goal was to travel across the Antarctica via the South Pole. |
| A．The sea ice. |
| B．The Antarctic winter. |
| C．The things they carried. |
| D．The captain’s unreasonable command. |
| A．The way how to establish the ship’s location. |
| B．The reason why locating the ship is difficult. |
| C．The measurements that the captain took to locate the ship. |
| D．The time when Endurance22 was organized and funded. |
10 . As 17-year-old Norwood drove through St. Petersburg last February for a tour, the laughter from the four girls inside her car quickly
The impact had caved in Norwood's driver's side door, jamming it
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn't with them. She ran back to the car and found Simmons
If the accident had happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, pursuing a career in medicine, had got the CPR
Immediately, she started
Soon, the ambulance arrived and
| A．mixed with | B．gave way to | C．contributed to | D．brought about |
| A．shut | B．open | C．loose | D．crowded |
| A．somewhere | B．otherwise | C．unusually | D．slightly |
| A．decided | B．attempted | C．managed | D．longed |
| A．unconscious | B．uncomfortable | C．uneasy | D．unhappy |
| A．removing | B．avoiding | C．fixing | D．clearing |
| A．sent | B．pushed | C．transported | D．carried |
| A．took | B．found | C．checked | D．sensed |
| A．awareness | B．concern | C．certificate | D．register |
| A．precious | B．regular | C．specific | D．adequate |
| A．striking | B．examining | C．pressing | D．squeezing |
| A．equip | B．clean | C．pour | D．fill |
| A．moved | B．rushed | C．guided | D．introduced |
| A．breath | B．view | C．focus | D．concept |
| A．confused | B．amused | C．surprised | D．satisfied |
