1 . On a hot afternoon Rhiannon was driving her old van down the highway. As she
A medical student witnessed the accident and came to her
Luckily, Rhiannon was saved. Not for the bandage, she would not have
Rhiannon also had a message for the other
A.rolled down | B.broke off | C.turned down | D.switched off |
A.stick | B.grab | C.touch | D.possess |
A.handle | B.engine | C.window | D.wheel |
A.Consequently | B.Automatically | C.Frequently | D.Slowly |
A.awake | B.astonished | C.unconscious | D.crazy |
A.vision | B.action | C.rescue | D.mind |
A.bandaging | B.curing | C.pressing | D.uncovering |
A.Without delay | B.Out of sympathy | C.For certainty | D.In despair |
A.tidying | B.removing | C.collecting | D.checking |
A.suffered | B.struggled | C.stayed | D.survived |
A.searched | B.browsed | C.received | D.posted |
A.guidance | B.gesture | C.expression | D.encouragement |
A.tireless | B.faultless | C.nameless | D.speechless |
A.apology | B.application | C.invitation | D.appreciation |
A.peers | B.strangers | C.relatives | D.fellows |
2 . It was a normal morning in March. Sondra Artis had just
As heading towards the school, Sondra noticed a burning smell. She
Sondra pulled into a parking lot and turned to face the 20 students on
“I told the kids that, ‘You know, we
The students hurried to the
Seconds after they all
The bus can be
“Sondra is a very good bus driver,”said a student. “She
A.sent away | B.turned down | C.seen off | D.picked up |
A.repaired | B.wiped | C.tapped | D.opened |
A.steam | B.smoke | C.fog | D.dust |
A.wrong | B.lucky | C.necessary | D.urgent |
A.anger | B.curiosity | C.embarrassment | D.worry |
A.duty | B.guard | C.board | D.vacation |
A.advantages | B.drills | C.signals | D.secrets |
A.met | B.separated | C.promised | D.practiced |
A.early | B.amazing | C.real | D.new |
A.exits | B.teacher | C.windows | D.lifesaver |
A.excited | B.tired | C.scared | D.optimistic |
A.hurriedly | B.safely | C.firstly | D.actively |
A.hid | B.landed | C.sat | D.escaped |
A.scene | B.school | C.park | D.destination |
A.searching | B.studying | C.thanking | D.counting |
A.replaced | B.exchanged | C.burnt | D.controlled |
A.eager | B.famous | C.grateful | D.qualified |
A.student | B.leader | C.driver | D.hero |
A.rewarded | B.excused | C.apologized | D.forgiven |
A.offers | B.deserves | C.demands | D.establishes |
It’s the Saturday, 1:00 am, and Stormy, my dog, and I were going on a pre-dawn bird-watching adventure. The weatherman predicted fog, but as we hit the road, it’s clear. Along our journey, I stopped at a petrol station, ensuring Stormy was safely locked in the truck.
“Stormy, hang tight,” I whispered, stepping out into the night air.
Back on the highway, as we were near the marshlands, a heavy fog began to swallow everything. At a sharp bend, my truck hit soft ground, and I lost control. “Oh, no!” Panic set in as the vehicle slid off the road with a bang, falling down a steep bank and into the water.
In the strange silence that followed, I was floating inside the car, gently carried downstream by the canal. “Come on, door,” I said, switching uselessly at the handle. It won’t move; the electrical system had shorted out due to the water. “I’ve got a glass breaker,” I reminded myself, reaching for the tool in the center part.
With each failed attempt to break the window — the glass bouncing back at me — I felt a growing sense of urgency. Water moved over the floorboards, cooling my feet. “Stormy, stay calm,” I said, lying down to kick at the window with all my strength. But my efforts only met resistance.
As the water level rose threateningly close to the ceiling, fear clawed at my heart. In a last effort, I dived behind the seat for my toolbox. “Got to find something solid.” My hands brushed against the cold metal toolbox, then the fire extinguisher (灭火器). “This might work.”
“Here goes everything,” I thought, holding the extinguisher and hitting it against the window. The impact resounded through the car, but the glass holds firm. “Not yet,” I begged under my breath, as the extinguisher bounced harmlessly away.
The water kept rising, and so did my fear. A voice inside me screamed to give up, but another thought pierced through — Stormy. “For Stormy, I can’t quit.” Just then, I sensed a pause in the water’s rise.
An unspoken sound said, “You have more time. What will you do?”
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“I’ll fight harder,” I promised aloud.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Exhausted, we caught the now flooded vehicle, waiting for daylight.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 . There was a pretty strict system of segregation (种族隔离) in Atlanta. As a Negro child, I couldn’t go to the so-called white schools, any public
I had
In my late childhood and early adolescence, two incidents happened that had a
I also remember riding with my dad another day when he
The experiences
A.school | B.bus | C.store | D.park |
A.attend | B.go | C.watch | D.enjoy |
A.grown up | B.brought up | C.grown out | D.brought out |
A.under | B.by | C.with | D.on |
A.founded | B.known | C.called | D.treated |
A.polish | B.preserve | C.announce | D.reserve |
A.anything | B.everything | C.something | D.nothing |
A.terrible | B.bad | C.tremendous | D.further |
A.wait on | B.look on | C.see on | D.serve on |
A.happy | B.angry | C.annoyed | D.comfortable |
A.move | B.leave | C.change | D.go |
A.but | B.so | C.nor | D.or |
A.occasionally | B.eventually | C.consequently | D.accidentally |
A.stopped | B.pulled | C.dragged | D.pushed |
A.clean | B.received | C.accepted | D.clear |
A.as if | B.even if | C.before | D.after |
A.excited | B.shocked | C.scared | D.worried |
A.name | B.address | C.ticket | D.number |
A.appealed | B.exposed | C.revealed | D.devoted |
A.practice | B.system | C.service | D.custom |
5 . Many people panic when things go wrong, but others know how to take charge. For a(n)
“I
The teenager held the steering wheel (方向盘) while jamming his
Meanwhile, Seamus made sure someone called instead of him and began to
While Seamus
The brothers are being praised for their
A.lovely | B.lucky | C.intelligent | D.proud |
A.instruction | B.qualification | C.courage | D.category |
A.changing | B.riding | C.stopping | D.passing |
A.ignore | B.explain | C.suffer | D.prevent |
A.heading for | B.keeping off | C.separating from | D.getting through |
A.agreed | B.wondered | C.knew | D.remembered |
A.escaped | B.rose | C.observed | D.considered |
A.process | B.puzzlement | C.nervousness | D.imagination |
A.clothes | B.backpack | C.foot | D.tools |
A.order | B.convince | C.warn | D.direct |
A.quickly | B.suddenly | C.randomly | D.naturally |
A.seize | B.seek | C.hug | D.push |
A.handled | B.approached | C.controlled | D.persuaded |
A.missed | B.started | C.avoided | D.suggested |
A.station | B.road | C.ditch | D.scene |
A.happened | B.managed | C.decided | D.expected |
A.action | B.plan | C.purpose | D.experience. |
A.effect | B.operation | C.adventure | D.situation |
A.applied | B.adapted | C.responded | D.appealed |
A.coming back | B.hanging out | C.showing off | D.stepping up |
6 . There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year-old was hanging out in a parking area underneath a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway in July when a car with three teenage girls inside rushed off a boat ramp and into the Pascagoula River. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. The driver, Evans would learn, had blindly followed wrong directions from her GPS.
It was around 2:30 a. m. by the time Evans got to the river’s edge. In the darkness, he could barely make out the girls clinging to the roof, the only part of the car still, barely, above water. But he could hear screaming.
Evans ripped off his shirt and shoes, tossed his phone down, then dived into the water, a river he knew alligators (鳄鱼) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, keeping her head above water, led her ashore.
Just then, a man called out. Police Officer Garry Mercer had arrived. He dived into the river to help another of the girls. But halfway back to shore, she panicked and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.
Evans jumped back into the water and helped them until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.
There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping water, struggling to stay afloat. And scared.
“I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’and I thought she was going to the dogs,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi.
“I just knew my last breath was coming,” Watson said. “My mind said, You’re slowly losing yourself.” She began to go under. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed me.”
The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans risked his life to save them. They’re alive, says his mother, Marquita Evans, because Corion Evans broke his curfew.
But she’s not mad, she told the Post. “He had a good reason.”
1. According to paragraph 1, what can we know about the accident?A.The three teenage girls were about to hang out when they dropped into the river. |
B.The wrong navigation confused the driver and caused the accident. |
C.The car drove about 20 feet from the land and stopped on the water. |
D.The car crashed into the river while driving on a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway. |
A.During the rescue, some alligators attacked them. |
B.Evans saved the lives of the three girls and Officer Mercer. |
C.The first two rescued girls can swim. |
D.Seeing three girls who fell into the water, Evans called the police. |
A.Dying. |
B.Dangerous. |
C.Awkward. |
D.Nervous. |
A.Indifferent. |
B.Critical. |
C.Proud. |
D.Angry. |
On Wednesday afternoon, two days after the crash of Flight MU5735, it was raining in Molang, a village near the scene of the disaster in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Some relatives of the passengers who were on board the Boeing 737-800 burst
The plane, operated by China Eastern Airlines, left Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm on Monday for Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. Air traffic
The first rescue team, from Tengxian county, Wuzhou,
One of the aircraft’s two black boxes found on Wednesday, believed
8 . The dad of the two youngest survivors of US Airways Flight 1549’s incredible landing in the Hudson River said the near-death experience “brought out the best in humanity.” It has been a decade since US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River.
Sosa, now 58, told The Post in an email Monday. “As strange as the experience was, it brought out the best in humanity as witnessed by the selfless efforts of so many men and women who came to our aid without thinking twice about their safety. I am grateful to all of them.”
Sosa and his wife Tess were traveling to Charlotte, North Carolina, that day with 9-month-old Damian and 4-year-old Sofia. The couple were sitting several rows apart when the Airbus A320 suddenly struck a flock of Canada geese moments after taking off from LaGuardia Airport.
Sosa could smell jet fuel burning and immediately knew they were in danger. “There was an explosion in the left engine which I could see from my seat,” he recalled. “The next thing I knew the plane went dead silent when both engines broke down. I got a quick glance at Tess seated ahead of me when we both realized we were in trouble.”
The next three minutes were harrowing(折磨). The powerless plane plunged over The Bronx and pointed toward the Hudson, where it would eventually ditch(在水上迫降), thanks to a split-second decision by Capt. Sullenberger. All 155 people on board could survive. Works helped with the rescue mission after the US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River in the afternoon on January 15 in New York City.
The dad this year 2019 who welcomed a new child, Phoebe, with Tess in the years after the incident — said “To date, it remains an unforgettable memory, a key point in our lives from which we perceive(感知) the world and process our day-to-day experiences,” said Sosa. “When you survive a near-miss experience, I think it makes one more tolerant. It makes you appreciate every day as a gift.”
1. When did the US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River?A.2007 | B.2009 |
C.2011 | D.2019 |
A.making efforts | B.expressing gratitude |
C.displaying virtues | D.showing anger |
A.The disaster made them cherish every day. |
B.They were traveling to Charlotte, South Carolina that day. |
C.They realized they were in danger when the left engine failed. |
D.They were sitting together when the plane struck a flock of Canada geese. |
A.Landing in the Hudson | B.Unforgettable flight |
C.Horrifying flight | D.Miracle on the Hudson |
A.Her car was damaged. | B.She lost her car | C.She was hit by a car |
1. What are involved in the accident?
A.A taxi and a truck. | B.A bus and a car. | C.A bus and a taxi. |
A.At 11: 30. | B.At 11:00. | C.At 10: 30. |
A.She is in the office. | B.She is close to the bookstore. | C.She is in the bookstore. |