4 . How did the woman know about the fire?

A．She read it in the paper.

B．She saw it on TV.

C．She witnessed it.

5 . 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。

Alexis, 17, sat quickly in the passenger seat of her dad’s car. She let her eyes lazily scan the landscape for wildlife.Then a deer came into view about 200 yards in front of them. “Dad, there’s a deer there!” Alexis said, rolling down the window for a better look. It was a male deer with sharp antlers (鹿角) on each side of its head.

As the car moved closer, Alexis saw that the deer’s head was bent toward the ground. Then she heard a scream and saw an arm fly up near the deer’s head. Alexis realized the deer was attacking a woman. Sue, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged (缓慢移动) closer. “I knew I was in trouble.” says Sue. She went to pick up a stick for self-defense, and the deer attacked her. It lifted her with its antlers and threw her into the air. Sue felt blood flow down her leg. Within seconds, the deer had pushed her off the road.

When Alexis and her father pulled up, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman’s terrified eyes, and before her father had even stopped the car, the teenager jumped quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. She was kicking and hitting it to get its attention. Michael, her father, who had followed his daughter, pushed the deer away from the woman.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右。
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段开头语已给出。
Paragraph 1:

Alexis immediately helped Sue into the car.

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Paragraph 2:

Then she heard her father shout loudly.

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6 . They had to get as many people out of the burning building as quickly as they could. So they told them to jump out of the window.

The first one out of the window was a man, who was followed by his two children. Next, a baby and then the baby’s mother _______the third-story window. All of them did this in _______. At that moment the smoke was billowing (涌出) from the apartment in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Smith and Corey Boykin tried their best to _______them.

It happened last November at around 4 am, when a _______ started on the second floor. “I got my family out, ”said Smith. “Then I started knocking on doors on the first floor but no one answered. I tried _______ the second floor, _______ the smoke was too black. I couldn’t _______; nor could I breathe. So I _______ and came outside. That’s when I saw people outside the _______.”

Boykin was at his ________ Melanie Nunemaker’s house, across the street from the apartment. He knew something was ________, saying, “I saw a baby drop out of the window, and Smith was ________ the child below.”

Boykin ran to a nearby house to get a ladder and ________ to help. He found Smith outstretched (伸开) his arms, shouting, “________! I’ll get you.” He caught several people.

Boykin ________ the ladder to ask those on the third floor to turn around and go toward him ________ they couldn’t see through the smoke.

“I ________ walking out through the front door, but a big cloud hit me. The smoke was getting to me so ________ that I couldn’t breathe,” a man called Chase Ray told 10TV. “He ________ my life, for sure.”

And it didn’t ________. When Boykin saw his burned-out neighbors, he took 20 or so of them back to his friend Nunemaker’s house. “We gave them clothes, shoes, whatever we had,” Boykin said.

1.

A．came out of

B．looked out of

C．knocked on

D．pointed to

2.

A．peace

B．fear

C．silence

D．secret

3.

A．free

B．find

C．help

D．surprise

4.

A．game

B．party

C．fight

D．fire

5.

A．reaching

B．blocking

C．kicking

D．covering

6.

A．so

B．and

C．for

D．but

7.

A．see

B．talk

C．shout

D．listen

8.

A．got off

B．went by

C．carried on

D．turned around

9.

A．car

B．window

C．school

D．company

10.

A．neighbor

B．friend

C．teacher

D．student

11.

A．important

B．necessary

C．special

D．wrong

12.

A．praising

B．treating

C．catching

D．teaching

13.

A．rushed

B．promised

C．agreed

D．learned

14.

A．Run

B．Jump

C．Help

D．Quick

15.

A．left

B．ignored

C．climbed

D．moved

16.

A．because

B．unless

C．though

D．until

17.

A．avoided

B．hated

C．tried

D．continued

18.

A．early

B．softly

C．fully

D．badly

19.

A．risked

B．saved

C．changed

D．admired

20.

A．disappear

B．burst

C．finish

D．settle

7 . A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding — undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism — if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott’s last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

1. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?

A．Frank Hurley.

B．Ernest Shackleton.

C．Robert Falcon Scott.

D．Caroline Alexander.

2. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?

A．Artistic creation.	B．Scientific research.
C．Money making.	D．Treasure hunting.

3. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?

A．They were made last week.

B．They showed undersea scenery.

C．They were found by a cameraman.

D．They recorded a disastrous adventure.

8 . Peter, 60, loved his job as a bus driver. He had been one almost all his life, loving the little children who rode his bus daily. It made him feel much younger. His record was clean, without one accident, which made him a trustworthy driver.

However, Mr. Clark, Peter’s boss, was worried and thought that it was time for him to retire (退休). “You don’t have a choice here, Peter.” he said seriously. “We don’t want to invite any risk to the children.”

“But I have a perfect record,” reasoned Peter. “You know, for an elderly man like me, my job is the only thing that keeps me alive. I want to keep my job.”

“Would you take responsibility if something bad happened to those children?” Mr. Clark said.

Peter thought it over, and very reluctantly, he gave in to Mr. Clark’s request. Peter decided to retire a week later.

The day before his last day, Peter was dropping of the kids at his first stop when he looked out of the window and saw a lady who had passed out. He asked the kids not to leave the bus and got down to help the woman.

Just when he finished, he heard cries behind him. The children were looking out of the window and shouting. “Fire! Fire! Help!” “How could that have happened?” Peter was shaking in fear. With shaking hands, Peter dialed 911 and rushed to help the children. Covering himself with his jacket, Peter rushed into the burning car and took the children out one by one. Thankfully, the firefighters arrived soon and helped Peter, saving all students.

The next day, Peter found the whole school standing in front of his home. When Peter got close to them, Mr. Clark started clapping and everyone joined him. “You are a hero, Peter! You saved the lives of those young children.” he said. “You are the best driver. We hope you can keep the job!”

1. What made Mr. Clark worried?

A．He couldn’t talk Peter into retiring.

B．Taking school bus was unsafe for children.

C．Peter was too old to be a school bus driver.

D．The school bus driver must be changed actually.

2. What does the underlined “reluctantly” mean in Paragraph 5?

A．Angrily.

B．Unwillingly.

C．Doubtfully.

D．Cheerfully.

3. Why were the children shouting?

A．They were caught in the burning bus.

B．They couldn’t find Peter on the bus.

C．They were frightened by the woman.

D．They didn’t want a new school bus driver.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Putting Out the Fire	B．A Dangerous Bus Journey
C．Working After Retirement	D．An Old Hero Driver

9 . It was late, about 10: 15 p. m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station; she jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’d just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route many times before. She practically ________ on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then— wham! Out of nowhere a car T-boned Esposito’s minivan, ________ her to move backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She ________ in the minivan, bruised (撞伤) but mostly just knocked out by the ________ and the airbags.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto was getting ready for ________. He’d just closed his book and was getting under the covers when he heard the sound of metal on metal and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer ________ and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never ________ to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out the door. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he told Nevosday. “We’re always on duty.”

The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had ________ Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and ________ Esposito’s minivan positioned on the railroad tracks. And then he heard a terrible sound: the bells signaling an oncoming train.

“The gates were starting to come down,” he told Nezvsday. “I see the headlight of the train.” DiPinto ran quickly to Esposito’s minivan and knocked on the driver’s side window. She ________ looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. She seemed unhurt. “Honey, you’re on the railroad ________,” DiPinto shouted. “We have to get you off right now!” He pulled hard on the handle, but the door was crashed in and ________. The heavy diesel train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was moving fast toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the door. “Please, don’t let her be ________,” he thought. He pushed aside the deflating (瘪了的) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and pulled her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and quickly get her to ________ behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimated, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie” DiPinto told reporters the next day.

But this one had a twist. “Last night,” South Country Ambulance chief Greg Miglino told CBS New York, “the ________ arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

1.

A．drove

B．walked

C．rode

D．hiked

2.

A．allowing

B．forcing

C．ordering

D．reminding

3.

A．sat

B．stood

C．hid

D．waited

4.

A．action

B．noise

C．impact

D．bomb

5.

A．class

B．work

C．dinner

D．bed

6.

A．doctor

B．driver

C．firefighter

D．engineer

7.

A．stopped

B．troubled

C．intended

D．wanted

8.

A．warned

B．caught

C．hit

D．followed

9.

A．observed

B．spotted

C．realized

D．predicted

10.

A．yet

B．just

C．still

D．even

11.

A．yards

B．stations

C．bridges

D．tracks

12.

A．unlocked

B．jammed

C．open

D．gone

13.

A．scared

B．ignored

C．trapped

D．defeated

14.

A．return

B．work

C．safety

D．life

15.

A．police

B．actor

C．reporter

D．hero