1 . It was a bright May afternoon along the Maryland coast. Jonathan Bauer, and his 13-year-old daughter, Ava, were driving with the windows down as they headed home on the bridge. Suddenly, the calm was disturbed by the squeal of tires.

Not far ahead of them, a pickup(皮卡车) was drifting from one lane to the other. It slammed into a concrete barrier, flipped over the car directly ahead of them, and came to rest hanging over the railing of the bridge. Bauer hit the brakes in time, but another car came sliding backward toward him and struck his car’s fender(挡泥板). Bauer stopped his car. “Ava, are you OK?” he asked. She was shaken, but otherwise unhurt.

And then a scream came from the pickup above the waters of the bay. The driver dashed to the railing. Bauer ran up beside him. The man pointed down, saying something in Spanish. There was a car seat in the water. Struggling next to it was a girl, about two years old, terrified, floating on her back and crying.

Matters quickly went worse when the girl rolled over onto her stomach. “Ava! Stay by the car!” Bauer yelled, drooping to remove his shoes. Would he get hurt? Could he reach the girl in time? No time to wonder. All he had in mind was the faith that she must be saved immediately.

A moment later he was bouncing off the sandy bottom-unhurt! Bauer swam to the girl and lifted her out of the water: mouth half open, eyes nearly closed, not breathing. Standing, he laid her against his shoulder and hit at her back with the flat of his hand. Water came streaming from her mouth and slowly her eyes were opened. He pulled her close, hugging her to shelter her from the cold.

A boat pulled up and hauled them aboard. Ava Bauer was so inspired by her father’s actions that four months later she became a firefighter so that she, too, could save lives. “That girl is going to live a whole life because of him,” she says. “It’s incredible.”

1. What can we learn about Bauer and his daughter from the first two paragraphs?

A．They had a great time along the Maryland coast.

B．They crashed their car into others’ on the bridge.

C．They suffered a severe hit and hung over the railing.

D．They witnessed a terrible accident on the way home.

2. Why did Bauer run forward next to the pickup driver?

A．He saw a girl struggling in the water.

B．He was asked to help the pickup driver.

C．He was caught by the cry from the pickup.

D．He was concerned about the falling of the pickup.

3. Which words can best describe Bauer?

A．Warm-hearted and modest.

B．Strong-willed and optimistic.

C．Determined and considerate.

D．Good-tempered and intelligent.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．A Leap of Faith

B．An Unexpected Crash

C．A Moment of Inspiration

D．A Well-organized Rescue

2 . Brendon Birt accidentally took a wrong turn down a street in Red Oak, Iowa. But it turned out it was exactly where he was _________! As he drove down the road, he saw heavy smoke from a family’s home. He knew the home was on fire. Without thinking, he stopped his car, called 911 and ran towards the _________ Brendon ran up and saw most of the downstairs was already full of _________. “I just believed there had to be someone _________ inside the house because it was so late at night,” Brendon said. “I knew I had to act _________. Every second that was going by was just getting worse.” He _________ to the side of the home and started pounding on the windows with _________, calling for the people to get out.

The homeowner, Tender Lehman, was _________ that night but her three younger children ages 8, 14, and 17 were inside being looked after by her _________ son, Bryce Harrison, 22. No smoke alarms __________, so if it weren’t for Brendon’s warning, they might not have ever __________ Brendon was relieved (放心) when he saw the four children run out of the __________ to safety. Days later, Tender came home and went to see the man who __________ all four of her children. “I’m so __________,” Tender said. “My kids wouldn’t have __________ it, without your kind action.”

1.

A．needed

B．discovered

C．received

D．chosen

2.

A．street

B．restaurant

C．fire

D．bus

3.

A．rubbish

B．people

C．bikes

D．smoke

4.

A．sleeping

B．working

C．eating

D．cooking

5.

A．quietly

B．quickly

C．finally

D．repeatedly

6.

A．moved

B．rushed

C．listened

D．referred

7.

A．surprise

B．excitement

C．anxiety

D．pleasure

8.

A．up

B．out

C．ill

D．busy

9.

A．oldest

B．smartest

C．tallest

D．kindest

10.

A．came out

B．broke down

C．gave up

D．went off

11.

A．stayed

B．helped

C．awoken

D．believed

12.

A．shop

B．office

C．garden

D．building

13.

A．met

B．saved

C．honored

D．taught

14.

A．thankful

B．careful

C．serious

D．proud

15.

A．troubled

B．started

C．remembered

D．made

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to the woman?

A．She left her handbag on the bus.

B．She missed the No. 22 bus yesterday.

C．She didn’t find City Bus Company.

2. What did the man tell the woman?

A．They didn’t find anything like that.

B．Someone found it and gave it to them.

C．It was certain that someone took it away.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A passenger plane crashed in southern China in March,     1     killed 132 people, and both black boxes from it are being analyzed by U. S. experts at a government lab in Washington, D. C.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it is helping its Chinese counterparts download information from the flight data recorder. Both boxes may have been damaged by the impact of the crash. If the information on them can     2     (recover), it could tell why the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 went into a sudden nosedive from about 8, 800 meters (29, 000 feet) over a     3     (mountain) region on March 21.

The crash left     4     20-meter-deep huge hole in a mountainside,     5     (destroy) the plane completely and set off a fire in the surrounding forest. More than 49, 000 pieces of plane debris were found. It took 2 days to find the CVR, which would pick up voices and other sounds from microphones     6     (wear) by the pilots. Another 4 days later searchers discovered the flight data recorder, which     7     (constant) records information of speed, altitude and the performance of key systems on the aircraft. And it was, buried 1.5 meters underground.

The 737-800 has an excellent safety record and the Chinese airline industry has had relatively few     8    (accident) in recent years. Before this accident, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred     9     August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines hit the ground short of the runway in the northeastern city of Yichun and caught fire,     10     (kill) 44 people. Investigators blamed pilot error.

5 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式, 并将答案填写 在答题卡上。

A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been found alive, according to local media reports.

The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after an earthquake hit Sichuan on Sept. 5,     1     killed 93 people and injured     2     (hundred).

Gan did first aid for his colleague and helped prevent flooding by releasing water from the dam (大坝). Both Gan and Luo then stayed in the station for over a day without food or mobile signal. They attempted     3     (leave)on Sept. 7, walking more than 12 miles. But Gan, who is short- sighted, lost his glasses and had much     4     (difficult)walking through the mountains. The pair     5     (eventual)decided to split up(分开), with Gan     6     (stay)there waiting for help and Luo going off to find assistance. Rescuers found Luo 3 days later,     7     to their disappointment, when they returned to the place where he had left Gan, he was no longer there.

However, Gan was discovered by     8     local farmer, who heard Gan’s faint cries and     9     (spot)him lying injured under some trees. He     10     (fly)to a nearby hospital and doctors determined that he had several bone wounds.

6 . Colleen and Terence have known each other for more than 35 years and have been out fishing together more than 500 times. On a freezing ________, they went fishing by boat as usual. And their ________ began when their boat hit a semi-submerged (半沉的) tree on the northern side of Motuihe Island about 4:30 a.m.

After the 4.8m boat ________ in 10 to 15 seconds, Terence, 42, who lost his brother in a boating accident in 1975, said “Oh God, you can’t do this to me twice in my life — losing two people I ________.”

The last bag of air on the boat was almost gone. “But Colleen remained amazingly ________ in the ________ water. We made the decision that I was the ________ swimmer, and I should go for help!” said Terence.

He swam against the tide for more than an hour. He ran into rocks and ________ two toes to get help to save a ________ friend. Meanwhile, Colleen, 53, said she ________ stars to kill time and thought of her family. “I wasn’t afraid because I had ________ in Terence. I knew he would do ________ to save me.”

Colleen was ________ found and picked up by the Marine Rescue Centre. She was ________ by ambulance to hospital. “When they came back and I asked if she had been found alive — they said yes — I just broke down. All had been ________ it,” Terence said.

1.

A．dusk

B．noon

C．night

D．morning

2.

A．fortune

B．suffering

C．play

D．holiday

3.

A．sailed

B．wandered

C．sank

D．stopped

4.

A．care about

B．knew about

C．talked to

D．heard of

5.

A．kind

B．warm

C．panic

D．calm

6.

A．deep

B．blue

C．icy

D．rapid

7.

A．weaker

B．stronger

C．wiser

D．luckier

8.

A．saw

B．made

C．got

D．injured

9.

A．depending

B．living

C．drowning

D．swimming

10.

A．counted

B．seized

C．made

D．enjoyed

11.

A．courage

B．faith

C．interest

D．trouble

12.

A．everything

B．much

C．something

D．little

13.

A．gradually

B．immediately

C．seriously

D．eventually

14.

A．taken

B．made

C．gotten

D．stopped

15.

A．concerned

B．worth

C．safe

D．ready

7 . A Grade 7 student from Michigan is being considered as a hero. A video shows that he jumped into _________ to stop a school bus filled with about 60 students when the driver _________.

Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, some are just _________ out of elementary school. Dillon Reeves is praised for bringing his school bus to a _________ stop after the driver lost consciousness.

Reeves was _________ home from school on the bus when he _________ the bus begin to change direction suddenly into oncoming traffic.

“Someone call 911. Now!” he can be heard shouting in a surveillance video that _________ from above the driver’s head. Moments before, the driver was alerting the _________ office that she was feeling _________ and needed to pull over. “Seconds later, Reeves, who was __________ at five rows back, jumped up from his seat, ran to the front of the bus, __________ the steering wheel and brought the bus to a stop in the middle of the __________. ” said Robert D. Livernoist.

“Not only was he able to bring the bus to a stop but he also maintained __________. ” said Livernois. “He had the technique to push the brake __________, for you could imagine this is a 66-passenger bus and it was __________ full at the time. ”

McAdams told CNN when first __________ arrived, the unnamed bus driver, a 40-year-old woman, __________ herself. Reeves declined to speak to reporters on Thursday, but his parents, Steve and Ireta Reeves, expressed their __________ in their son. Steve told reporters. “He’s been on my __________ driving country roads, __________ into driveways since about four years old. We’ve got a little hero. ”

1.

A．action

B．rows

C．front

D．seat

2.

A．passed away

B．passed down

C．passed by

D．passed out

3.

A．roughly

B．approximately

C．barely

D．away

4.

A．casual

B．safe

C．unwilling

D．temporary

5.

A．riding

B．walking

C．jumping

D．heading

6.

A．directed

B．heard

C．kicked

D．noticed

7.

A．captured

B．taken

C．held

D．brought

8.

A．school

B．transportation

C．headmaster

D．teacher

9.

A．hungry

B．tired

C．unwell

D．thirsty

10.

A．standing

B．lying

C．sleeping

D．sitting

11.

A．grabbed

B．shook

C．turned

D．fixed

12.

A．station

B．road

C．lot

D．school

13.

A．calmness

B．carefulness

C．control

D．quietness

14.

A．suddenly

B．silently

C．rudely

D．slowly

15.

A．firstly

B．importantly

C．probably

D．typically

16.

A．responders

B．firefighters

C．managers

D．leaders

17.

A．recalled

B．recovered

C．refreshed

D．regained

18.

A．excitement

B．surprise

C．pride

D．anxiety

19.

A．back

B．lap

C．head

D．home

20.

A．walking

B．pulling

C．breaking

D．running

8 . Ukraine has reported that forest fires have broken out near the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) is about 100 kilometers away from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1986, the CNPP had the worst nuclear accident in history. A series (系列) of mistakes and accidents caused an explosion and a huge fire, which burned for nine days. As a result of the disaster, entire cities had to be cleared. Over 100, 000 people had to leave their homes forever. A 2, 600-square-kilometer area around the CNPP was set apart as the “Chernobyl Exclusion Zone” to keep people away from the radioactive pollution.

Much of the land in the Zone is forest and grassland. Radioactivity breaks down slowly over time, so the radiation has dropped some by now. The radioactive pollution has become part of the plants and the dirt in the area. But on April 4, fires broke out in the Zone, which can give off the radioactive pollution back into the air. Once the pollution is in the air, it can be spread by the wind. Over the last 10 days, hundreds of fire fighters have been struggling against the flames. One fire came close to the CNPP. Keeping fires away from the plant is important because dangerous and poisonous material is still stored there.

Fighting the fire was much more challenging than normal because of the radiation dangers. In some places, fire fighters dug ditches (壕沟) to stop the fire from spreading, however, most of their efforts went into pouring water from the air since they couldn’t do the same in most areas.

Ukraine’s government says that there are still some small grass fires, but there are no major open fires still burning. The government says radiation levels in the air in Kyiv and nearby areas are normal.

1. Why does the author mention the CNPP?

A．It has contributed to the recent fires.

B．The recent fires broke out next to it.

C．The fires will destroy its nearby forest.

D．It can be used to fight against the fires.

2. Compared with regular ones, the forest fires in the Zone ________.

A．are more dangerous	B．are more frequent
C．spread more quickly	D．last longer

3. What was the firefighters’main job for the forest fires?

A．Preventing poisonous materials escaping.

B．Ditching to stop the fires spreading.

C．Dropping water to put out the fires.

D．Keeping people away from the CNPP.

4. How is the outcome of firefighters’ struggling against the fire?

A．It’s unclear.	B．It’s unexpected.
C．It’s discouraging.	D．It’s effective.

9 . My phone rang. A sharp cry came over a _________ number. It’s Alyce, my 12-year-old daughter. “What’s going on? Where’s your Mom?” Susan, my wife, was _________ to take Alyce to school then. “Mommy was just in a car _________. Come quick.”

I _________ to what looked like a shoot for a _________ movie. Fire engines, police cars, and ambulance were _________ in the street. A city bus was on the wrong side of the road. In front of it were the broken _________ of Susan’s car.

Susan was pinned under the dashboard (仪表板). Alyce stood on the corner _________, but uninjured. Susan wasn’t so lucky. She had _________ nearly every bone, admitted to ICU.

Two years later at a musical event, our friend said __________, “There’s a woman you have to __________!” It was a woman with a bright __________ smile. She told us that morning she had seen Alyce was __________ alone by the side of the crashed car. She __________ her, asking, “Is that your mom?” Alyce nodded. The woman gave her a(an) __________ and took care of her. Alyce needed to call me, so she lent Alyce her phone. After the accident, she had continued to __________ for our family.

We had never been __________ introduced, so she said “I never got your __________.” I said it was Douglas. She __________, as if she hadn’t heard me. I repeated, “Douglas.” She __________ us and said, “Your name is Susan, and your name is Douglas. My name is Susan Douglas!”

1.

A．familiar

B．strange

C．simple

D．lucky

2.

A．supposed

B．addicted

C．permitted

D．determined

3.

A．breakdown

B．adventure

C．repair

D．accident

4.

A．walked

B．struggled

C．rushed

D．wandered

5.

A．crime

B．ghost

C．action

D．disaster

6.

A．loaded

B．parked

C．crashed

D．hidden

7.

A．remains

B．hearts

C．lives

D．machines

8.

A．considering

B．playing

C．wondering

D．crying

9.

A．exploded

B．broken

C．lost

D．escaped

10.

A．naturally

B．timely

C．excitedly

D．curiously

11.

A．introduce

B．request

C．ask

D．meet

12.

A．stressful

B．glowing

C．grateful

D．warning

13.

A．shouting

B．complaining

C．standing

D．cheering

14.

A．approached

B．disturbed

C．judged

D．stopped

15.

A．hug

B．call

C．idea

D．hand

16.

A．pray

B．apologize

C．promise

D．serve

17.

A．kindly

B．secretly

C．indirectly

D．formally

18.

A．trust

B．name

C．offer

D．pay

19.

A．added

B．continued

C．paused

D．explained

20.

A．looked at

B．made fun of

C．agreed on

D．got along with

10 . Angela was driving back home with her kids, 5-year-old Lexi and 10-week-old Peter and the car was packed with all the necessities for a trip: toys, milk powder and snacks.

As she was driving, Angela found they were on a part of road that was under construction. The long journey had begun to bother Peter, who started crying. Angela inserted a nursery rhyme CD into the stereo and hoped it would help.

The warm sun and the soft music had a relaxing effect. In no time, both children became quiet. Angela’s eyes close too, for just a few seconds.

When Lexi suddenly woke up, she found it was dark. Airbags obscured all the windows. Lexi’s neck hurt and Peter was crying loudly. She told herself to get out of the car, but when she pulled the handle, the door was stuck. Turning onto her side, Lexi kicked at the door until it flopped (猛地打开) open and the car was filled with sunlight.

That’s when Lexi spotted her mother in the front seat. She tried to wake her up but Angela didn’t respond. Lexi looked over the side of the SUV and saw they were on a steep hill. It was only a large tree that kept the car from rolling down.

Her shoes had come off, but Lexi felt no pain as she climbed over glass, rocks, and pine needles up the embankment (路堤) to the highway her mother had driven off.

A driver, Jeremy, was travelling on the highway when he saw a tiny child jumping up and down, waving her arms. He pulled over. “Help!” Lexi cried out. “My mom needs help!” Jeremy looked up and down the tree-lined road but saw nobody. The barefoot child pointed to the destroyed SUV downhill. Without hesitating, he ran down the hill.

1. What made Lexi and Peter quiet immediately in the car?

A．Games.	B．Music.
C．Toys.	D．Snacks.

2. We can infer the reason for the accident is ________.

A．tiredness	B．warm weather
C．impatience	D．road condition

3. Which words can best describe Lexi?

A．Naughty and quick.	B．Calm and proud.
C．Healthy and careless.	D．Smart and brave.

4. What does the underlined word “obscured” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Blocked.	B．Exploded.
C．Removed.	D．Damaged.