文章大意:本文是记叙文。文章主要讲述了White在开车回家的路上遇到了一辆皮卡车不正常地行驶,他看到皮卡车司机似乎在睡觉,为了避免发生事故,他跳进皮卡车里,将车停下,他发现司机因为低血糖而几乎失去意识。White的所作所为避免了一次事故的发生。
6 . It was rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. White, 38, was driving home. He noticed a gray Nissan four-door pickup on the opposite side of the two-lane street. It was hard to _______ , since it was turning sharply and careening into the curb (路缘) .
As the pickup drew closer, White got a good look at the _______ : the driver appeared to be asleep. Pretty soon, this guy's going to crash into a house, White thought. While many people would have _______ driving, that's not how White because of his permanent instinct to help out. He had to stop that vehicle.
White busted a U-turn and was now facing in the same direction as the pickup, but there were four cars _______ them. Trapped, White pulled his car over, jumped out and ran around to the driver's side. The window was down on this _______ autumn day. White grabbed the frame of the window—his legs moving in step with the pickup—and with a mighty heave, leaped in.
White was now inside the cab of the truck, waist deep, his legs dangling out the window. The man behind the wheel, 64-year-old Todd DeAngelis, was just _______ enough to be shocked by the sight of a stranger sprawled across his stomach, and he let out a yelp.
White worked quickly. They were coming up to a busy intersection, he recalls, “so I was trying to stop anything before it happened.” He _______ the pickup into park, causing it to jolt to a stop. He _______ himself from the truck window the same way he came in.
From outside the truck, White asked DeAngelis if he was OK. “No,” he replied, in a haze. DeAngelis, a diabetic, was _______ facing dangerously low blood sugar.
“I'm always trying to help, where I can, when I can, ” White says.
But jumping into a moving vehicle to prevent a crash? White admits this was new ________ .
1. A.miss | B.recognize | C.seek | D.realize |
2. A.direction | B.problem | C.street | D.pickup |
3. A.carried out | B.given up | C.kept on | D.taken over |
4. A.prohibiting | B.overtaking | C.separating | D.following |
5. A.burning | B.cooling | C.warm | D.temperate |
6. A.calm | B.anxious | C.desperate | D.conscious |
7. A.forced | B.wheeled | C.urged | D.led |
8. A.ejected | B.landed | C.released | D.escaped |
9. A.regularly | B.specially | C.constantly | D.unexpectedly |
10. A.cause | B.challenge | C.approach | D.territory |