1. What did the two men plan to do?
| A．Attend a sailing race. |
| B．Travel between two islands. |
| C．Get away from their country. |
| A．Relieved. | B．Optimistic. | C．Upset. |
| A．They were found by a passing boat. |
| B．They boated to the nearest shore. |
| C．They found a floating device. |
1. What happened to the woman at the beginning?
| A．She lost her phone. | B．She couldn’t find the way. | C．She was trapped in heavy snow. |
| A．The car was running out of gas, |
| B．She stopped to answer a call. |
| C．The engine couldn’t work properly. |
| A．By drinking hot tea. | B．By using the car heater. | C．By having more clothes on. |
| A．They called an ambulance. |
| B．They led the woman to her home. |
| C．They helped the woman go to the main road. |
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 . When I was 12, I went on a 720-mile cycling trip with my brother and father. Before the trip, we
One night, we were getting to a campsite and cycling down a large hill with
Instinctively, I rushed out in front of my brother in the middle of the road, and
My father said I was
| A．accounted | B．prepared | C．searched | D．answered |
| A．enthusiastic | B．courageous | C．professional | D．committed |
| A．paid | B．cared | C．looked | D．longed |
| A．in | B．around | C．on | D．beyond |
| A．eagerness | B．anxiety | C．surprise | D．relief |
| A．hiking | B．climbing | C．wandering | D．cycling |
| A．sank | B．slid | C．rolled | D．raced |
| A．attached to | B．buried in | C．loaded with | D．stuck in |
| A．danger | B．trouble | C．shock | D．vain |
| A．clapped | B．waved | C．raised | D．rubbed |
| A．around | B．back | C．ahead | D．aside |
| A．potentially | B．slightly | C．incredibly | D．generously |
| A．risking | B．losing | C．saving | D．changing |
| A．suggestions | B．preferences | C．prospects | D．dilemmas |
| A．removed | B．released | C．robbed | D．freed |
5 . A Heroic Driver
Larry works with Transport Drivers, Inc. One morning in 2009, Larry was
The man who had his bright lights on
Once fire and emergency people arrived, Larry and the other man
One thing is
| A．walking | B．touring | C．traveling | D．rushing |
| A．passengers | B．colleagues | C．employers | D．customers |
| A．Since | B．Although | C．As | D．If |
| A．each | B．another | C．that | D．his |
| A．flames | B．smoke | C．water | D．steam |
| A．used | B．disabled | C．removed | D．abandoned |
| A．got hold of | B．prepared | C．took charge of | D．controlled |
| A．came down | B．came through | C．came in | D．came over |
| A．returned | B．received | C．made | D．confirmed |
| A．then | B．again | C．finally | D．even |
| A．Starting | B．Parking | C．Passing | D．Approaching |
| A．quiet | B．still | C．away | D．calm |
| A．for | B．so | C．and | D．but |
| A．explode | B．slip away | C．fall apart | D．crash |
| A．as if | B．unless | C．in case | D．after |
| A．stepped forward | B．backed off | C．moved on | D．set out |
| A．woman | B．police | C．man | D．driver |
| A．forbidden | B．ready | C．asked | D．free |
| A．for certain | B．for consideration | C．reported | D．checked |
| A．patience | B．skills | C．efforts | D．promise |
1. What happened to the woman at the beginning?
| A．She lost her phone. |
| B．She couldn’t find the way. |
| C．She was trapped in heavy snow. |
| A．The car was running out of gas, |
| B．She stopped to answer a call. |
| C．The engine couldn’t work properly. |
| A．By drinking hot tea. | B．By using the car heater. | C．By having more clothes on. |
| A．They called an ambulance, |
| B．They led the woman to her home. |
| C．They helped the woman go to the main road. |
1. Who is Anna?
| A．An operator. | B．An assistant. | C．A rider. |
| A．What a ride operator should do. |
| B．How they should take a picture on the ride. |
| C．What rules they are for the ride. |
| A．His safety belt broke. |
| B．He lost his phone on the ride. |
| C．He was removed from the park for spitting. |
| A．Board the car. |
| B．Ask Anna some questions. |
| C．Get some food and drinks. |
8 . Matthew began working on the brakes of his truck immediately he got home late on a Monday. For safety, he couldn’t
Matthew couldn’t breathe, move or yell. This was definitely a
The
Not only the father but also everyone was
| A．give up | B．carry on | C．set about | D．put off |
| A．consequence | B．idea | C．angle | D．start |
| A．switched | B．fell | C．covered | D．spread |
| A．shameful | B．scary | C．familiar | D．discouraging |
| A．Thankfully | B．Eventually | C．Obviously | D．Unfortunately |
| A．enthusiastic | B．patient | C．strong | D．willing |
| A．kicked | B．struck | C．thought | D．tried |
| A．accident | B．explosion | C．fight | D．exposure |
| A．madness | B．collapse | C．injury | D．breakdown |
| A．felt | B．escaped | C．separated | D．emerged |
| A．lifted | B．pushed | C．protected | D．detected |
| A．instructor | B．superior | C．guide | D．hero |
| A．responsible | B．qualified | C．grateful | D．eager |
| A．ended | B．changed | C．reacted | D．behaved |
| A．service | B．response | C．recover | D．change |
9 . It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport, New York, train station, jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20 minute drive home to her husband and sever-year-old son. She'd just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route so many times. She practically drove on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then - wham! Out of nowhere on that awful night, a car T-boned Esposito's minivan, forcing her backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She sat in the minivan, bruised (淤伤的) but mostly just stunned by the impact and by the vehicle's airbags.
As it happens, Pete DiPinto was getting ready for bed. He'd just closed his book and was crawling under the covers when he heard the high-pitched clang of metal on metal and shattering glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never stopped to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas, ran out of the door. The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had hit Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was 
, he looked around and spotted Esposito's minivan straddling (横跨) the railroad tracks.
And then he heard an upsetting sound: the bells signaling an oncoming train. "Honey, you're on the railroad tracks," DiPinto shouted to Esposito, "We have to get you off right now!" He yanked on the handle, but the door was smashed in and jammed shut. The heavy diesel (柴油) train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was hurting toward them. Dipinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the door. He pushed aside the flat airbags, grabbed Esposico's arms, and pulled her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and rapidly walk her to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimates, the train ploughed into the minivan.
1. How did Janice Esposito feel when driving home?| A．Careless. | B．Light-hearted. | C．Mindful. | D．Stunned. |
| A．It got stuck on the back. |
| B．It crashed into a running train. |
| C．It was hit on the driver's side. |
| D．It broke down on Station Road. |
| A．Calm and adventurous. |
| B．Sensitive and creative. |
| C．Warm-hearted and diligent. |
| D．Decisive and experienced. |
10 . In a close-up (特写), one man is pulling the other with all his strength through the window of an SUV, a type of vehicle, which is stuck dangerously on a cliff (悬崖) 30 feet above a busy roadway.
Jason Warnock, then 29, is the man performing the life-saving action. He was driving in Lewiston, Idaho, in April 2015 when he came upon a fallen tree in the middle of the road. “I was like, ‘What happened’?” he told a news website. Warnock stretched out his neck to stare up the side of a cliff. At the very top, where the tree should have been, was an SUV swinging on the edge, held back from falling to the road by a delicate, heavily damaged chain-link fence. Looking inside the car, Warnock could see a panicked Matthew Sitko, 23, beating on the passenger-side window.
That’s when Warnock sprang into action. He crossed a nearby footbridge, and climbed up the cliff to get to the vehicle. When Warnock got to the car, he tried breaking the window with a tool he had on him, only to realize that his cracking was shaking the car and might cause it to slip down the hill. He stopped and turned to calming Sitko enough to get him to open the window. “Give me your hand,” Warnock said. “If this thing goes, I want to have a hold of you so I can at least get you out of there.” Before reaching for the lifeline, Sitko had one request: “Can I grab my phone?” Soon enough, Warnock had freed both man and his machine.
According to the Lewiston police chief, the accident was caused when Sitko, who suffered only minor injuries, lost control of his car. For his part, Warnock insisted he came to Sitko’s aid for one simple reason: “I just did what anyone would do.”
1. Where was Matthew Sitko’s SUV when spotted?| A．On a cliff. | B．By a river. |
| C．On the road. | D．Under a tree. |
| A．His strength ran up. |
| B．His tool stopped functioning. |
| C．He worried about his own safety. |
| D．He realized the possible consequence. |
| A．The SUV was beyond repair. | B．The SUV was out of control. |
| C．Sitko was severely injured. | D．Sitko was sleepy and tired. |
| A．Calm but stubborn. | B．Daring but anxious. |
| C．Caring and decisive. | D．Optimistic and strong. |
