1 . Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱).
Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.
Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳子) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up.”
His hands and arms cut and bruised(擦伤), Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.
1. What is the best title for this newspaper article?| A．The Story of Mr. Johnson, A Sweet Salesman |
| B．Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route |
| C．Driver Escapes Through Car Boot |
| D．The Driver Survived A Terrible Car Accident |
| A．The hammer | B．The coin. |
| C．The screw. | D．The horn. |
| A．Luckily the door was torn away in the end |
| B．At last the wrench went broken |
| C．The lock came open after all his efforts |
| D．The chance was lost at the last minute |
| A．the ditch was along a quiet country road |
| B．the accident happened on a clear warm day |
| C．the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch |
| D．Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended |
A Kentucky pizza driver, Ralph Letner, is a hero after he helped to evacuate people from a home
1. How did the woman scratch the red car?
| A．Her car backed into it. |
| B．Her shopping cart hit it. |
| C．Her bags dropped on it. |
| A．Leave a note. | B．Go to a grocery store. | C．Drive away quickly. |
1. What is the weather like?
| A．Sunny. |
| B．Windy. |
| C．Rainy. |
| A．Call the police. |
| B．Listen to the radio. |
| C．Get out and help the guy. |
A little girl whose parents had died lived with her grandmother and slept in an upstairs bedroom.
One night there was a fire in the house and the grandmother died while trying to rescue the child. The fire spread quickly, and the situation was terrible.
Neighbors called the fire department, and then stood helplessly by, unable to enter the house because flames blocked all the entrances. The little girl appeared at an upstairs window, crying for help, just as word spread among the crowd that the firefighters would be delayed a few minutes because they were all at another fire.
Suddenly, a man appeared with a ladder, put it up against the side of the house and disappeared inside. When he reappeared, he had the little girl in his arms. He delivered the child to the waiting arms below, and then disappeared into the night.
An investigation revealed that the child had no living relatives, and weeks later a meeting was held in the town hall to determine who would take the child into their home and bring her up.
A teacher said she would like to raise the child. She pointed out that she could ensure her a good education. A farmer offered her an up-bring on his farm. He pointed out that living on a farm was healthy and satisfying. Others spoke, giving their reasons why it was to the child’s advantage to live with them.
Finally, the town’s richest resident rose and said, “I can give this child all these advantages that you have mentioned here, plus money and everything that money can buy.”
Throughout all this, the child remained silent, her eyes on the floor.
“Does anyone else want to speak?” asked the meeting chairman. A man came forward from the back of the hall. He walked slowly and appeared to be in pain.
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When he got to the front of the room, he stood directly in front of the little girl and help out his arms.
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When asked about her choice, the girl gave people the reasons firmly.
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1. What is the speaker in charge of?
| A．A small supermarket. |
| B．A large supermarket. |
| C．A small branch of a large supermarket. |
| A．The prevention of shoplifting. |
| B．The causes of shoplifting. |
| C．The purpose of shoplifting. |
| A．People in their early thirties. |
| B．People in their twenties. |
| C．Teenagers. |
| A．Putting chains or alarms on goods. |
| B．Hiring store detectives. |
| C．Using closed-circuit television. |
1. Where does the conversation take place?
| A．In the police station. | B．In the street. | C．On the highway. |
| A．The car is broken. |
| B．She has important things to do. |
| C．There was a dog in the street. |
| A．30 mph. | B．40 mph. | C．50 mph. |
| A．Regretful. | B．Relaxed. | C．Lucky. |
8 . The town of Paradise has suffered a fire, which lasted 17 days and caused a loss of $16.5billion. As a result, the beautifully named place
Shane Grammer, Creative Director for Disney's theme parks in Los Angeles, paid close attention to the news of the fire's deadly path. In fact he felt quite
“I've got to
Grammer spent three hours spray-painting the image of a woman on the chimney in black and white, which was
Then Grammer put its picture on social media. On seeing it, the victims of the fire could not
At this time, Grammer became aware that something
Today, Grammer's efforts have
Ironically, the first painting, on the chimney in Panadise, existed for just several months,
| A．destroyed | B．created | C．witnessed | D．lost |
| A．powerless | B．enthusiastic | C．urgent | D．reluctant |
| A．left | B．remained | C．disappeared | D．collapsed |
| A．mend | B．rebuild | C．paint | D．preserve |
| A．risk | B．opportunity | C．job | D．duty |
| A．strikingly | B．originally | C．deliberately | D．accidentally |
| A．label | B．object | C．content | D．reminder |
| A．support | B．contain | C．help | D．release |
| A．hope | B．mystery | C．entertainment | D．expectation |
| A．brighter | B．higher | C．bigger | D．deeper |
| A．take back | B．come back | C．bring back | D．hold back |
| A．to | B．from | C．of | D．during |
| A．broken | B．looked | C．developed | D．dipped |
| A．since | B．while | C．unless | D．once |
| A．lasting | B．rising | C．fading | D．accumulating |
California is burning.In recent weeks, hundreds of fires
Fire has always been a part of life California.
The forces working in concert to spark and spread wildfires pose
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A big fire break out in a clothing factory in our city the last Wednesday. On 9：18 that morning, when the employees were working busy in the 4-storeyed building, heavy smoke was seeing coming out of the windows on the second floor. The fire lasted nearly a hour, and the majority of the 345 employees managed escape from the fire. Unfortunately ,seven were killed，and 23 were injured,lightly or serious. It’s reported that the only two exits of the building was not enough for such many people to escape in a hurry.
