1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to boats and ships in the Bermuda Triangle?

A．They caught fire without reason.

B．They crashed into each other.

C．They disappeared.

2. Who mentioned the Bermuda Triangle for the first time?

A．A famous explorer.

B．A popular writer.

C．A well-known reporter.

3. When did the Bermuda Triangle become a popular story?

A．In the 15th century.

B．In the 20th century.

C．In the 17th century.

4. What does the speaker say about the Bermuda Triangle?

A．All of the reports on it are untrue.

B．It is a dangerous area in the ocean.

C．It is completely safe at the moment.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker think of controlling traffic accidents?

A．Difficult.

B．Easy.

C．Uncommon.

2. How many causes of traffic accidents are mentioned?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

3. What can help to make highways much safer?

A．Driverless cars.

B．Traditional design.

C．Improved design.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to two Air France flights on Tuesday night?

A．There were bombs on them.

B．They made emergency landings.

C．Their passengers were questioned by the police.

2. How long was the train from Washington D.C. to Virginia delayed during Tuesday evening’s rush hour?

A．Many hours.

B．Nearly an hour.

C．Over an hour.

3. What will people be unwilling to do after a violent attack?

A．Go to work.

B．Travel abroad.

C．Take public transportation.

4. What can we find in recent days after the Paris attacks?

A．Some schools closed.

B．More armed police officers were in the streets.

C．Some flights and trains to Paris were less than half full.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答小题。1.

A．She had run a long way.

B．She felt weak and tired in the subway.

C．She had done a lot of work.

D．She had given blood the night before.

2.

A．By lifting her to the platform to get others’ help.

B．By moving her with the help of his girlfriend.

C．By holding her arm and pulling her along the ground.

D．By waking her up and dragging her away from the edge.

3.

A．Danger in the subway.	B．A subway rescue.
C．How to save people.	D．A traffic accident.

5 . One evening, 13-year-old Briar agreed to look after his four younger sisters while his parents were out. The parents were _______ that big brother Briar was reliable in their _______. During that brief time, the home suddenly caught fire.

The first thought coming to Briar’s mind was to rescue his little sisters. The family had _______ discussed emergency plans, so he was _______ to act. In minutes, flames (火焰) were climbing the ceiling. Smoke was filling up the hallways. The terrifying fire quickly _______ throughout the home.

Briar remained calm and focused on the _______ task of saving his four younger sisters: Peyton, 12, Jocelyn, 3, Willow, 1, and 6-month-old baby Sawyer. He first _______ the two younger sisters and rushed the older sisters out the door to _______. After making sure his sisters were far away from the _______ and breathing in fresh air, he ran back into the home to save it, __________ the flames around him. He quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher (灭火器) from the kitchen and __________ tried to put out the fire. But it was uncontrollable at this __________, and despite his best efforts, the flames kept growing __________. The home was filled with thick smoke.

Firefighters arrived on the __________, but the fire was too violent for the home to be saved. Although they lost their home and all their belongings, the family felt incredibly __________ that they all survived the fire unharmed.

1.

A．courageous

B．ignorant

C．confident

D．obvious

2.

A．presence

B．absence

C．assistance

D．silence

3.

A．previously

B．rarely

C．extremely

D．eventually

4.

A．excited

B．ashamed

C．prepared

D．determined

5.

A．went

B．lived

C．got

D．spread

6.

A．efficient

B．fluent

C．urgent

D．patient

7.

A．took hold of

B．put emphasis on

C．showed mercy to

D．caught up with

8.

A．safety

B．failure

C．awareness

D．sight

9.

A．problem

B．difficulty

C．danger

D．store

10.

A．except

B．besides

C．since

D．despite

11.

A．actually

B．desperately

C．entirely

D．definitely

12.

A．price

B．point

C．age

D．depth

13.

A．faster

B．lower

C．larger

D．weaker

14.

A．scene

B．position

C．time

D．way

15.

A．frightened

B．respectful

C．amused

D．grateful

6 . Nicole Salgado and and her family woke up on New Year’s Day to panic knocking at the front door of their home in Avodale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, but she didn’t know it. “We were all ________,” Salgado said. “Then all of a sudden around 7:30 in the morning, we heard banging on our door and our doorbell was ________. And we kind of got ________.”

Salgado, a mother of four, ran to ________ the kids while her husband hurried to the front door. There, they found their next-door neighbour, Carolyn Palisch, urging the family to leave the house. He opened the door and their neighbour Carolyn said their house was on fire and told them to leave. Salgado ________ grabbed her kids and ________ from the burning home. No one was wearing socks or shoes ________ her oldest child.

Making sure that everyone was out, they realized the full extent of it. They were just in ________ as they watched their home burn. According to Salgado, minutes after they escaped, the ________ collapsed and smoke filled the inside of their home. ________ said if the family had still been sleeping when the roof fell down, they would have breathed the smoke and immediately ________.

“We are so grateful to just be ________,” Salgado wrote in a post to social media. The doorbell camera caught the moment when Palisch saved their lives. Salgado said the family decided to post the video to share with the world what Palisch did for them. The video has now been ________ almost 7 million times on Tiktok.

In the footage (一段镜头), Palisch is seen yelling outside the Salgado family’s door, surrounded by smoke and ________. She ________ to knock at the door loudly and repeatedly until she is able to help the family escape. “If it weren’t for her, it would be a totally different story,” said Salgado. “We feel so thankful to her. She saved all of us.”

1.

A．sleeping

B．dining

C．playing

D．chatting

2.

A．going down

B．going off

C．going about

D．going ahead

3.

A．scared

B．embarrassed

C．thrilled

D．discouraged

4.

A．turn away

B．pick out

C．take on

D．check on

5.

A．cheerfully

B．unconsciously

C．instantly

D．amazingly

6.

A．learned

B．benefited

C．escaped

D．recovered

7.

A．due to

B．except for

C．regardless of

D．free from

8.

A．vain

B．shock

C．line

D．order

9.

A．dam

B．tower

C．bridge

D．roof

10.

A．Firefighters

B．Nurses

C．Architects

D．Lawyers

11.

A．stayed up

B．worked out

C．turned up

D．passed out

12.

A．absent

B．alarmed

C．alive

D．annoyed

13.

A．viewed

B．applied

C．evaluated

D．blamed

14.

A．plants

B．branches

C．papers

D．flames

15.

A．pretends

B．agrees

C．continues

D．declines

7 . In July, in Moss Point, Mississippi, a heroic act unfolded. Three teenage girls found themselves in a(n) _________ situation when they drove their car off a boat ramp (舷梯) and into the Pascagoula River. The driver had blindly _________ incorrect GPS directions, leading them into the _________.

Corion Evans, a 16-year-old who was hanging out with friends nearby, saw what happened and realized he _________ to help. In the dark, Evans and two brothers made their way to the river’s edge and saw the _________ catching the roof of the sinking car. Evans _________ jumped into the water, even though he _________ there were alligators (鳄鱼) in the area. He _________ brought the first girl to safety on the shore.

A police officer named Garry Mercer _________ and also jumped into the river to assist. However, one of the girls __________ and pulled Mercer underwater. Evans didn’t hesitate to jump back in and help both of them until they could stand. __________, another girl, Cora Watson, who couldn’t swim, was struggling to stay afloat. Evans heard her cries for __________ and managed to save her as well.

All three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the __________ but were eventually released. Evans’ mother, Marquita Evans, wasn’t __________ with him for breaking curfew (宵禁) because he had a good reason — __________ lives.

1.

A．complex

B．dangerous

C．embarrassing

D．unusual

2.

A．recorded

B．changed

C．followed

D．abandoned

3.

A．water

B．car

C．house

D．beach

4.

A．promised

B．learned

C．refused

D．needed

5.

A．drivers

B．boys

C．girls

D．officers

6.

A．carefully

B．finally

C．suddenly

D．immediately

7.

A．imagined

B．knew

C．hoped

D．dreamed

8.

A．successfully

B．calmly

C．anxiously

D．warmly

9.

A．waited

B．arrived

C．fell

D．left

10.

A．apologized

B．disappeared

C．panicked

D．agreed

11.

A．At the same time

B．After a while

C．From now on

D．In the future

12.

A．fight

B．peace

C．action

D．help

13.

A．school

B．hospital

C．home

D．river

14.

A．strict

B．pleased

C．upset

D．patient

15.

A．ending

B．losing

C．endangering

D．saving

8 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. brake            B. victims        C. issued       D. confirmed       E. pace        F. typically G. multiple       H. seriously       I. slippery     J. canceled          K. visibility

NINE people died and 43 were injured in two rear-end crashes on Shanghai’s S32 Expressway that occurred during heavy fog yesterday morning.

Two were       1       dead at the scene in one of the accidents, and five were found dead in the other. Two more people died in hospital, police said.

Police first received a report at 5:54 am that     2     vehicles had crashed on the S32, near a ramp of S2. The S32 links Shanghai with Zhejinag Province’s Jiaxing and Huzhou.

Two people were killed after getting out of their vehicle to see what was causing congestion ahead. They were hit by an out of control tanker, police said.

When police arrived at that scene, they found a further five people had been killed when a construction vehicle was crushed by two large vehicles from both front and back. The crash was about three kilometers away from the accident that killed the two people on the expressway. The injured were sent to local hospitals.

Some drivers reported that the road was very     3     and braking had led to vehicles losing control.

“The fog was very heavy,” an unidentified driver told Shanghai Television Station. “When I saw the accident ahead, I wanted to slow down and       4     . But once I hit the brake, the vehicle went out of control.”

Zhoupu Hospital treated 12 people. “One of the     5     died on the road to the hospital,” Ding Fuhao, a doctor with the hospital, told the television station. “Three were     6     injured.”

The city’s meteorological authority     7     an orange alert on heavy fog at 6:06 am, meaning     8    would be lower than 200 meters in some areas.

The dense fog hit coastal areas in particular, including Chongming Island, Pudong New Area, Baoshan and Fengxian districts. The alert was    9    at 9:44am. This was Shanghai’s first orange alert of heavy fog since the arrival of autumn.

Several expressways in the city were closed or subject to speed limits yesterday morning.

Pudong International Airport was also affected by the bad weather. The airport’s traffic was about 60 percent less than normal in the morning but picked up the    10     after the orange alert was canceled, the city’s television station said.

9 . The rescue of an Austrian skier who was found alive after being buried by an avalanche is being called a “miracle”. Police in Upper Styria — the mountainous and forested region in southern Austria — said they were alerted on Christmas Day that a 26-year-old skier had not returned from the slopes. The man who alerted police said he had managed to get through to the skier’s mobile phone but heard only “cracking noises” on the line, the BBC reported.

A rescue team was able to trace the skier beneath more than 3 feet of snow using an electric avalanche victim’s transceiver (无线电收发两用机), which skiers are required to wear in avalanche-prone areas. They found the man was on a slope of Mount Pleschnitzzinken, in the northwestern area of Upper Styria. “You can’t move under a blanket of snow like this,” Stefan Schrock of the Styria mountain rescue service told Austrian public broadcaster ORF. “The man was extremely lucky that he had a big enough air pocket under the blanket of snow, so he had oxygen too and was able to breathe.”

The man was found about two hours after authorities were first alerted. However, the avalanche hit the region three hours before that when the man was buried in the snow. A rescue team and local police dogs dug the man out of the snow and he was taken down the valley suffering from hypothermia (体温过低). He was otherwise unharmed.

An avalanche also swept across a marked ski trail near the Swiss town of Andermatt on Thursday, injuring two people. Four others were either rescued themselves from the snow unhurt. Police and rescuers searched the snowslide after witnesses said more people might be buried, but the operation ended with police saying there were no more victims. The avalanche occurred mid-morning while many holiday skiers enjoyed mountain sunshine the day after Christmas.

1. Why did the man alert the police?

A．He found two people injured.

B．A 26-year-old skier got lost.

C．He heard only terrible noises.

D．Many people got lost on the slope.

2. How could the skier survive?

A．Only the dog helped him.

B．He had an electronic transceiver.

C．A blanket of snow helped him.

D．He had a big enough air pocket.

3. How long was the man trapped in the snow?

A．For two hours.

B．For three hours.

C．For five hours.

D．For a week.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A terrible avalanche.

B．A Christmas miracle.

C．An exciting rescue.

D．A Christmas ski.

10 . What happened to Mr. Lee?

A．He was late for the meeting.

B．He had an accident.

C．He fell ill.