1 . Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He ______ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.
“Louie is a true ______,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service(SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been ______ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my ______. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t ______. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s ______.”
Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter ______ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to ______ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on ______ the pet but with no ______.” The Kleins suffered great ______ in the fire. Their house was in ______ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.
“People have ______ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also ______ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to _____ Louie.”
1. A.annoyed | B.alarmed | C.impressed | D.noticed |
2. A.model | B.genius | C.hero | D.pioneer |
3. A.awake | B.asleep | C.alone | D.afraid |
4. A.opinion | B.way | C.memory | D.sight |
5. A.survive | B.resist | C.arrive | D.respond |
6. A.frightening | B.shocking | C.sorrowful | D.grateful |
7. A.angrily | B.gently | C.secretly | D.immediately |
8. 9. A.accompanying | B.saving | C.comforting | D.adopting |
10. A.luck | B.doubt | C.evidence | D.barrier |
11. A.injuries | B.losses | C.pressures | D.failures |
12. A.detail | B.place | C.ruins | D.rows |
13. A.rushed out | B.come back | C.run away | D.reached out |
14. A.presented | B.equipped | C.linked | D.compared |
15. A.replace | B.honor | C.forget | D.reward |