1 . Life can change in the blink of an eye. For Bridgette Ponson, one of those
Soon, Chris Crowder, CEO of the school, became
“It was a split second,” Chris recalls. “I immediately just ran into the classroom building because I knew I had to get a lot of people to lift this car. We have about 220
A whole group of kids could be seen working together to lift the car enough for Mom and her kids to get
| A．discoveries | B．observations | C．explorations | D．moments |
| A．approached | B．hit | C．delighted | D．confused |
| A．searching | B．waiting | C．trapped | D．tied |
| A．Thankfully | B．Honestly | C．Absolutely | D．Obviously |
| A．witness | B．cause | C．victim | D．damage |
| A．learned | B．realized | C．recalled | D．explained |
| A．accompany | B．treat | C．save | D．welcome |
| A．aware | B．afraid | C．ashamed | D．approving |
| A．doubt | B．wonder | C．exception | D．delay |
| A．domestic | B．energetic | C．innocent | D．ordinary |
| A．made | B．helped | C．watched | D．heard |
| A．calling | B．looking | C．running | D．climbing |
| A．ahead | B．close | C．free | D．lost |
| A．stress | B．injuries | C．hunger | D．diseases |
| A．expected | B．determined | C．advised | D．reminded |
1. What was the woman doing when she heard a noise?
| A．She was doing the dishes. | B．She was polishing the table. | C．She was cleaning the living room. |
| A．A police officer. | B．The woman’s husband. | C．The woman’s neighbor. |
| A．In the early morning. | B．Around noon. | C．In the evening. |
3 . Colleen and her husband were part of a group walking the Overland Track. It was the fifth day of a 6-day walk. The guide, who was waiting for them at the nearest camp, had
"When I realized what was happening, I was heading to a deep ditch (沟壑), my pack on my back." Colleen's fall was only
Colleen hit her head badly and went into
Her husband took her pack along with his own and together they struggled for the final three kilometers to the camp. Once they reached the camp, the guide gave her first aid and called for the rescue helicopter immediately.
Colleen was
Later, Colleen recalled with emotion, "After this personal experience of near-death and being saved, I realized that in some situations there's absolutely no
| A．interviewed | B．warned | C．asked | D．taught |
| A．curious | B．independent | C．cautious | D．patient |
| A．opposite | B．ahead | C．faraway | D．above |
| A．broken | B．caused | C．followed | D．protected |
| A．shock | B．action | C．silence | D．panic |
| A．lay | B．settled | C．bent | D．crashed |
| A．straight away | B．after all | C．at times | D．without hesitation |
| A．forced | B．guided | C．rushed | D．invited |
| A．possibility | B．privilege | C．alternative | D．necessity |
| A．familiar | B．wonderful | C．deafening | D．unexpected |
Saved by the Belt
My family is one of the lucky ones. We still have what we consider most precious — each other. It is Kathy Hezlep, our superstar, that has saved our family. Sitting at the porch, I am transported to the accident ten years ago.
As a mother, I have been blessed. I have a nice, smart, good-looking son who has given me much pleasure over the years. In the months leading up to Alan’s 16th birthday, there was a lot of excitement about his upcoming rite (仪式)of passage — the driver’s license.
About a month before his birthday, there was an assembly about seat-belt safety presented at his high school. One of the presenters in this program, Kathy Hezlep, had lost her son in a horrible car crash the year before. When Kathy was first asked to speak at this assembly, she was reluctant. Her son’s death had been extremely hard on her. She often felt helpless and discouraged, and she wasn’t sure how she could make a difference by speaking with this group.
But the school had convinced her to talk to the students. Kathy spoke about how hard it had been since the loss of her son. There were days when it was an effort just to get out of bed. She spoke directly from her heart and my son took her words straight into his heart. I remember Alan coming home that day and the two of us talking about the crash. We thought it was interesting that she was a single mother(like me)and that her son, Ryan, was her only child(like Alan).
Well, the big day finally arrived. The state of Florida, in its infinite wisdom, granted my “ child ” a license to take a loaded weapon and drive it! At the time, I thought the worst feeling I could possibly experience was watching my only child drive off alone in my car. I was wrong.
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Alan had his license one week when the police called me that Alan had an accident with his friends.
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When I rushed to the hospital, I talked to Alan about the accident.
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5 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I was at the back of a group of eight horse riders when one of my fellow safari (观兽旅行) camp guides called my name, nodding to the spot behind me. I turned to see a male lion, fully grown, not 10 metres away.
I’d been working as a guide at the safari camp in Botswana for a year and had seen lions a few times, usually in the heat of the day. Guests paid to come on guided rides between tented camps 20 miles apart. It was a very remote area. We left at 7 am that morning; it was three hours later when the lion appeared.
Just as I saw it, the horses ran wildly, leaving riders hanging on as the lion began its chase (追逐). I wasn’t in control of my horse, Acaba, which was heading into a much thicker bush, away from the path and the rest of the group. I realised that the lion had chosen to drive Acaba away from the others.
I thought we were going to die together. I screamed in pure panic. Suddenly, Acaba ran into a really thick bush and stopped without control, throwing me into a bush. By the time I got myself out of the low woody plants, the lion was killing him.
Unbelievable! Acaba hid me in the bushes and left himself in extreme danger! It protected me! Scared... shocked... moved... my mind went blank. I was only two metres away! Acaba was on the ground, feet in front of him. He tried to push himself up. But the lion was on top of him, covering his body entirely, his front feet around Acaba’s neck.
I seized a device hanging around my neck, which is known as a bear banger. It has a spring, and when you pull the trigger (扳机) the spring fires off containers that explode when they land. It’s like a small firework but as loud as a shotgun.
Somehow my panic died down. I found myself moving closer to Acaba and the lion.
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I pulled the trigger, and it worked.
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One of the guides gave me a horse and I planned to find Acaba.
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It was a typical Monday morning. My form teacher, Mrs Tan, was going through our exam questions. I pot down some notes and did my corrections.
“Riiiiiiinnnngg!” A high-pitched sound pierced through the air like a knife. Covering my ears in annoyance, realization dawned on me. It was the fire alarm! While I encouraged others to remain as cool as a cucumber, it was in vain. My classmates were all screaming and running around like crazy.
“Calm down, everyone! Please queue up in an orderly manner! We have practised this in the fire drills!” instructed Mrs Tan , sounding anxious.
The class ignored her and continued screaming at the top of their voices. One student even broke down in a fit of panic. I rushed around the class, asking all my fellow students to settle down while waiting for further instructions.
A serious voice soon announced from the speakers in every class, drawing our attention. “All students are to follow their teachers and evacuate(撤离)the building in a calm and organized manner. The fire may have been caused by a gas explosion in the canteen; do not go near there!”
Mrs Tan finally managed to calm the panicky class down. In a strict voice, she told us that we were to use the evacuation route to Gate 6. She arranged the pupils quickly in neat straight rows and led us out of the classroom.
Upon taking my first step out of the classroom, I took a deep breath instantly. The surroundings were hazy(模糊的) as thick smoke came from the canteen. Choking, I unconsciously covered my nose. To make matters worse, the ash from the smoky surroundings hurt my eyes. Coughing anxiously, I tried to see my teacher in the lead, but the air was too hazy for me to see anything clearly. Within less than a minute, I lost sight of my class and was left alone.
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A wave of anxiety washed over me.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7 . Those with closed minds refused to consider any contradictory facts, and they proceed with their planned course of action, full speed ahead, with their “minds made up” and tightly shut. As an illustration, consider the situation in 1986, prior to the space shuttle Challenger’s disatrous launch that killed all seven astronauts aboard, there was a heated telephone debate between two engineers from the company that produced the shuttle booster rockets and the top officials of NASA (the federal government’s space agency). The engineers insisted that the flight was too risky because of freezing temperature at the Florida launch site. They explained that some of the seals on the fuel tanks were not designed to withstand such low temperatures and might leak under pressure, thus endangering the craft and crew.
Despite the pleas to stop the flight, officials at NASA overruled the engineers, who were best qualified to make judgments about the complex technical problems of space flight. What caused the officials to ignore the engineers? Several flights had already been postponed, and it would not look good to postpone another. It would be bad public relations to disappoint the crowds of people and news reporters waiting for the launch. Top government officials were ready to appear on the national television and take the credit for another safe flight. As a result, with their minds absolutely closed to the facts presented by the engineers, NASA officials ordered the Challenger to take off. Seventy-three seconds later, the spacecraft was enveloped in flame.
Incredibly, seventeen years later, the lesson of the Challenger disaster was repeated. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the earth’s atmosphere, killing another crew of seven. During the shuttle’s liftoff, a piece of foam insulation(泡沫隔热材料) had broken off, hitting the shuttle's wing at five hundred miles per hour. Lower-level engineers at NASA begged for photographs of the Columbia in orbit, which might have shown the extent of the damage, but their closed-minded superiors ignored their requests. It was the damage caused by the 1.7 pound chunk of insulation that doomed the Columbia.
There is no virtue in ignoring contradictory facts and “sticking to your guns” when the course taken shows all the signs of being the wrong one. Closed minds are especially noticeable in political campaigns and debates. Many people line up to support one candidate or another and won’t listen to any facts presented by the opposing candidate.
All those with an open mind say is this: “I don’t know everything, so I’d better keep my mind, eyes, and ears open to any new facts that may come along.” The world would be a much better and safer place if everyone had this attitude.
1. Which of the following brought about the disastrous launch of the Challenger?| A．Its crew | B．The engineers |
| C．The fuel tanks’ seals | D．The size of its rocket |
| A．postponed the flight at once. |
| B．made judgments about the complex technical problems. |
| C．announced the news on national television. |
| D．ordered to launch the Challenger as scheduled. |
| A．The Columbia disaster was impossible to foresee. |
| B．Engineers were to blame for the Columbia’s explosion. |
| C．The Columbia disaster could have been avoided. |
| D．The Columbia was deliberately damaged. |
| A．Holding firm to your own opinion. |
| B．Remaining and firing your gun at enemies. |
| C．Strengthening your status. |
| D．Keeping an open mind. |
| A．To inform readers about what an open mind is. |
| B．To entertain readers with two stories of tragedies in space. |
| C．To persuade readers to keep an open mind. |
| D．To criticize what NASA officials had done in aerospace history. |
| A．By stating arguments. | B．By giving examples. |
| C．By explaining statistical data. | D．By providing research result. |
Earlier this month, a team of doctors in Russia managed to complete an open heart surgery as the hospital caught fire, Now a picture
According to reports, firefighters
Cardiac surgery center department head Valentin Filatov said: “There was nowhere to go, the man had to be saved. We did everything at the
Antonina Smolina, one of the medics, shared that “there was no panic” among the hospital crew.
When responders realized that the surgery could not
Amur Region’s Ministry of Health later released an official
A dog who is thought to have died in a snow slide is home safe after spending days in the
A skier and a snowboarder both survived a snow slide in Chaffee County, Colorado, last week. “The second skier down caused a snow slide,
The skier opened his airbag and
The couple also had their dog with them. After searching everywhere for the dog following
“We did have some search and rescue
It was supposed that the dog died in the snow slide
“Extraordinarily, the dog managed
10 . After lunch I was napping near the window when there came a big bang. I
The driver got off. After
That, I thought, would be the
This man was actually a hero and I was embarrassed by my
| A．gradually | B．especially | C．immediately | D．generally |
| A．center | B．shape | C．direction | D．beginning |
| A．assessing | B．mentioning | C．limiting | D．mending |
| A．stopped | B．failed | C．finished | D．worked |
| A．equipment | B．sight | C．wisdom | D．strength |
| A．broke | B．lighted | C．burnt | D．rose |
| A．in place of | B．on top of | C．in front of | D．in need of |
| A．Perfectly | B．Gracefully | C．Awkwardly | D．Intentionally |
| A．broken | B．fallen | C．repaired | D．locked |
| A．end | B．cause | C．plan | D．form |
| A．flew off | B．passed by | C．turned up | D．moved on |
| A．guessed | B．counted | C．stood | D．watched |
| A．improved | B．destroyed | C．painted | D．rebuilt |
| A．unbalanced | B．uncertain | C．unfair | D．unhurried |
| A．observe | B．explain | C．challenge | D．wonder |
