2 . I was recently involved in a bad traffic accident. I was knocked unconscious by the impact so I don’t __ anything about the accident. My first memory is being given oxygen as the doctors and nurses tried to ____ me back to life.

As I lay in the emergency room, I found myself ____ my life and thanking God that I was still __. The good news is that nobody else was __.

Since that day, the physical recovery has been __ but not as tough as the emotional recovery. I've learned a lot about myself and about what really ____ in this world. Things that are really important are not“things”. I’m not invincible(无敌的)and I cannot ____ everything that happens in my life. I need to be better at ____ the things that come into my way that I didn’t plan for. As someone who was always in a ____，it taught me to slow down a little. I have learned to live each day honestly and ____.

___ I continue to heal physically and emotionally，I have a different opinion on ____ . When tragedy strikes，you can either let it ____ your spirit，or use it as an opportunity to grow. I have chosen to ____ from it.

1.

A．receive

B．remember

C．mention

D．care

2.

A．bring

B．hit

C．pay

D．answer

3.

A．sacrificing

B．predicting

C．analyzing

D．mourning

4.

A．wealthy

B．alive

C．optimistic

D．healthy

5.

A．threatened

B．informed

C．ignored

D．hurt

6.

A．difficult

B．smooth

C．quick

D．stable

7.

A．works

B．happens

C．matters

D．functions

8.

A．understand

B．control

C．identify

D．oversee

9.

A．rejecting

B．identifying

C．improving

D．accepting

10.

A．hurry

B．dilemma

C．routine

D．mess

11.

A．comfortably

B．quietly

C．fully

D．busily

12.

A．As

B．Before

C．Unless

D．Although

13.

A．love

B．future

C．work

D．1ife

14.

A．1ift

B．break

C．protect

D．show

15.

A．suffer

B．escape

C．discover

D．learn

4 . Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of   _________   in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly _________ by fire each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest   _________ fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed toward the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the _______. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had _______ in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and     _______     me that Luke had succeeded in saving four kittens who had been _______by the flames. I _______   accompanied the fireman to the forest to get him back. _______ we got to the scene of the incident, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the   ________ of a dog barking in the forest. I ________the barks as Luke’s. The firemen ________ the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured ________. Thanks to Luke, four kittens and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving, caring and compassionate. We should love and ________them. Little animals can do     ________     things for humans.

1.

A．rain

B．sun

C．noise

D．fires

2.

A．damaged

B．removed

C．changed

D．treated

3.

A．made

B．caught

C．set

D．burned

4.

A．forest

B．house

C．area

D．shelter

5.

A．lost

B．died

C．appeared

D．remained

6.

A．warned

B．reminded

C．informed

D．promised

7.

A．buried

B．trapped

C．controlled

D．swallowed

8.

A．immediately

B．slightly

C．approximately

D．particularly

9.

A．Since

B．Unless

C．When

D．Until

10.

A．call

B．shout

C．voice

D．sound

11.

A．understood

B．recognized

C．treated

D．realized

12.

A．recorded

B．noticed

C．followed

D．wanted

13.

A．fireman

B．doctor

C．farmer

D．teacher

14.

A．save

B．raise

C．protect

D．hate

15.

A．fun

B．enormous

C．little

D．risky

6 . The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree ________ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree's base, its engine ________.

"I grabbed buckets of water," said Languell. Then he ran to the crash ________.The car looked worse up close. It was nearly ________ into two, and the tree was where the driver's seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have ________ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his ________ face pressed against the driver's side window, in visible ________. Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success. "When the ________ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there," he said.

Completely ________ his own safety, Languell opened the car's back door and ________ in. He cut through Thompson's seat belt using a pocketknife he'd had the foresight to bring with him. Now that Thompson was free of the ________, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then ________ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.

Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post ________ him as "looking great, smiling, and joking". Displaying the sort of sympathy that ________ him to help, he explained, "My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ________."

1.

A．swallowed

B．preserved

C．melted

D．settled

2.

A．beyond reach

B．under control

C．on fire

D．in shape

3.

A．levels

B．surroundings

C．direction

D．site

4.

A．developed

B．arranged

C．shot

D．divided

5.

A．explained

B．planned

C．survived

D．prevented

6.

A．terrified

B．relaxed

C．moved

D．confused

7.

A．eagerness

B．doubt

C．pain

D．devotion

8.

A．flames

B．water

C．branches

D．fuel

9.

A．denying

B．ignoring

C．respecting

D．guaranteeing

10.

A．climbed

B．slipped

C．ran

D．called

11.

A．dilemma

B．trap

C．destination

D．embarrassment

12.

A．forced

B．showed

C．dragged

D．accompanied

13.

A．thanked

B．employed

C．served

D．described

14.

A．ordered

B．drove

C．begged

D．trained

15.

A．directly

B．hopelessly

C．calmly

D．effectively

7 . Recently, I flew to Las Vegas to attend a meeting. As we were about to arrive, the pilot announced that there would be a slight __________ before setting down. A sandstorm had __________ the airport to close all but one runaway. He said that we would be __________ the city for a few minutes, waiting to ______       . We were also told to remain in our seats with our seat belts fastened, __________ there might be a few bumps（颠簸）. Well, that few minutes turned into about forty-five minutes, including a ride that would make a roller coaster（过山车）__________ by comparison.

The movement was so fierce that several passengers felt __________ and her to use airsickness bags. As you might guess, that’s not a good thing to experience in a(n) __________ space because it only __________ to increase the discomfort of the situation.

About twenty minutes into the adventure, the entire airplane became very __________.

There was now a sense of anxiety and fear that could be __________ noticed. Every passenger simply held on for or twice, much to the chagrin（懊恼）of the man sitting next to me holding the airsickness bag. dear life… except one. A __________ was having a good time! With each bump of the __________ he would let out a giggle（咯咯笑）of delight. As I observed this, I __________ that he didn’t know he was supposed to be afraid and worried about his        ______. He neither thought about the past nor about the future. Those are what we grown-ups have learned from __________. He was __________ the ride because he had not yet been taught to feat it. Having understood this, I took a deep breath and __________ back into my seat, pretending I was __________ on a roller coaster. I smiled for the rest of the flight. I even __________ to giggle once

1.

A．mistake

B．delay

C．change

D．wind

2.

A．forced

B．warned

C．swept

D．reminded

3.

A．watching

B．visiting

C．circling

D．crossing

4.

A．arrive

B．enter

C．stop

D．land

5.

A．if

B．though

C．because

D．while

6.

A．light

B．pale

C．dark

D．quick

7.

A．sick

B．nervous

C．angry

D．afraid

8.

A．empty

B．narrow

C．secret

D．open

9.

A．serves

B．aims

C．fails

D．happens

10.

A．quiet

B．hot

C．dirty

D．crowded

11.

A．partly

B．gradually

C．shortly

D．clearly

12.

A．pilot

B．baby

C．guard

D．man

13.

A．seats

B．passengers

C．flight

D．airplane

14.

A．realized

B．hoped

C．agreed

D．insisted

15.

A．health

B．safety

C．joy

D．future

16.

A．teachers

B．books

C．experience

D．theories

17.

A．learning

B．taking

C．missing

D．enjoying

18.

A．sat

B．lay

C．went

D．rode

19.

A．nearly

B．finally

C．really

D．suddenly

20.

A．attempted

B．managed

C．wanted

D．decided

8 . The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “____station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a ____at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious voice of a young woman.
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance____off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty____!” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a____when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came____towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly____to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was____at last. Later the police did whatever they could to____the woman who had____them, but failed.
It is really ____that a prediction should agree with the fact so____1.

A．Weather

B．Railway

C．Fire

D．Police

2.

A．bus

B．truck

C．taxi

D．train

3.

A．turned

B．took

C．set

D．walked

4.

A．call

B．signal

C．trick

D．arrangement

5.

A．reward

B．praise

C．thanks

D．punishment

6.

A．turning

B．running

C．starting

D．passing

7.

A．continued

B．refused

C．began

D．stopped

8.

A．saved

B．dead

C．awake

D．alive

9.

A．find

B．attack

C．award

D．thank

10.

A．laughed

B．visited

C．repeated

D．telephoned

11.

A．exciting

B．pleasing

C．surprising

D．interesting

12.

A．equally

B．truly

C．exactly

D．carefully