1 . After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their hometown feeling glad to be back, they noticed ________, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a ________ in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.”

But John ________ closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ________ work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us,” Mary ________.

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in ________. A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John ________ her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the ________,” cried the woman. “Down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement, John ________ for the basement which was full of smoke and ________ hot. He found the door and two children. ________ he left he could hear some more sobbing. He ________ the two badly frightened children into ________ arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ________! That house will fall down any second.”

________ he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the ________ stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely ________ about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.

1.

A．direction

B．mistake

C．danger

D．smoke

2.

A．home

B．plant

C．store

D．kitchen

3.

A．ran

B．walked

C．drove

D．rode

4.

A．at

B．off

C．to

D．on

5.

A．whispered

B．nodded

C．disagreed

D．required

6.

A．ruins

B．pieces

C．flames

D．silence

7.

A．pushed

B．seized

C．greeted

D．stopped

8.

A．basement

B．department

C．house

D．hall

9.

A．went

B．reached

C．asked

D．rushed

10.

A．heavily

B．slightly

C．partly

D．terribly

11.

A．If

B．As

C．Since

D．Unless

12.

A．comforted

B．delivered

C．recognized

D．protected

13.

A．cheering

B．freezing

C．waiting

D．suffering

14.

A．many

B．several

C．three

D．two

15.

A．dangerous

B．foolish

C．practical

D．painful

16.

A．Therefore

B．So

C．Instead

D．But

17.

A．wide

B．endless

C．narrow

D．dirty

18.

A．particular

B．interesting

C．familiar

D．fortunate

19.

A．car

B．sunlight

C．crowd

D．arms

20.

A．rescued

B．found

C．lost

D．missed

2 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!

1.

A．hired

B．carried

C．visited

D．telephoned

2.

A．hit

B．assisted

C．banned

D．followed

3.

A．dangerous

B．appropriate

C．fortunate

D．necessary

4.

A．praying

B．cheering

C．reflecting

D．suffering

5.

A．work

B．appear

C．change

D．improve

6.

A．pilots

B．businessmen

C．employees

D．designers

7.

A．determined

B．hesitated

C．agreed

D．started

8.

A．bitter

B．human

C．casual

D．general

9.

A．in advance

B．on schedule

C．at bottom

D．for ages

10.

A．remarkably

B．completely

C．constantly

D．suddenly

11.

A．adjusted

B．examined

C．destroyed

D．found

12.

A．regretful

B．merciful

C．doubtful

D．hopeful

13.

A．busy

B．angry

C．mature

D．social

14.

A．wine

B．water

C．fruit

D．vegetables

15.

A．purified

B．sought

C．wasted

D．distributed

16.

A．went on

B．set out

C．broke down

D．took off

17.

A．landed

B．decorated

C．repaired

D．moved

18.

A．abandoned

B．rescued

C．condemned

D．informed

19.

A．withdrawn

B．sworn

C．participated

D．lied

20.

A．plane

B．traffic

C．desert

D．snow

3 . By my third day in the hospital, I realized Owen didn’t visit. I couldn’t understand ________ my best friend wouldn’t come to see me. Struggling against the ________ , I called his ________ . His mom answered, and when I asked for Owen, she got ________that she didn’t tell ________ . “He’s not here right now,” she said. I thought it was ________ me where he was or to have him call me. But I was so weak, I just let it ________ . I found out later that Owen’s mom telephoned my parents right ________ we rang off. My phone call really made her ________ , and she ________ they talk to me. Later that night, my mom ________ . Did I remember drinking? Did I remember being in a car? I had ________ what she was talking about, so she finally told me the news: I’d hit a tree. Owen, in the ________ seat, was thrown from the car and killed instantly. The only reason I’d lived was because of my ________ .

My first ________ was of shock. I’d been drink-driving? Hit a tree? Killed Owen? I felt like the ________ person in the world. Even after I was able to ________ several weeks later, I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to talk. I just ________ at the wall in my ________ and cried. The only person I wanted to see was ________ . I didn’t feel like hanging out with any of my old friends.

1.

A．if

B．whether

C．why

D．how

2.

A．nurse

B．doctor

C．pain

D．wound

3.

A．company

B．house

C．school

D．office

4.

A．quiet

B．relieved

C．calm

D．worried

5.

A．unfair

B．wrong

C．strange

D．unnecessary

6.

A．permit

B．allow

C．offer

D．refuse

7.

A．stay

B．come

C．fly

D．go

8.

A．before

B．after

C．when

D．until

9.

A．anxious

B．shocked

C．disappointed

D．excited

10.

A．hoped

B．wished

C．insisted

D．ordered

11.

A．went by

B．came by

C．called back

D．sent for

12.

A．understood

B．doubted

C．wondered

D．no idea

13.

A．passenger

B．driver

C．safe

D．spare

14.

A．doctor

B．friend

C．seat-belt

D．fault

15.

A．thought

B．reaction

C．action

D．idea

16.

A．luckiest

B．worst

C．happiest

D．most lonely

17.

A．stand up

B．go over

C．go home

D．eat out

18.

A．stared

B．looked

C．glanced

D．glared

19.

A．sickroom

B．office

C．bedroom

D．dormitory

20.

A．my mom

B．my doctor

C．police

D．Owen

4 . I grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was Friday night high school football. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise their children away from crime and danger of a big city, and where teenagers like me _______leaving to find something bigger and better.

All that _______one summer night. My friend Lisa, Kim and Tyler held a party for my eighteenth birthday at Lisa’s house. As they kept _______alcohol to me, I was pretty drunk. I asked Tyler to take me home. With some _______, we made it out to his car and drove home. News came next morning. Kim, my friend _______we were five years old, was killed in a car accident. That night after Tyler and I left, Kim, who was clearly more drunk than me, got into her car and _______towards the highway to go home. She was driving on the wrong side of the road and never saw the truck coming. The driver didn’t see her _______to avoid the car. They hit head on. Kim died immediately, and the driver was thrown _______the truck windshield (挡风玻璃) and died a week later.

Whenever I look back on that day, I can’t help thinking that it was my _______to drink so much that night, otherwise things would be different. I know Kim made the choice to drink and drive that night, but a part of me will always feel ________for what happened.

I may not change the world with my story, but I do hope that I can make people ________the responsibility that they have to themselves and others by ________it. Don’t ever think that your choices are yours ________. Every choice is like a stone dropped into ________water—each ripple (波纹) represents someone who your choice ________. That’s quite an influence, isn’t it?

1.

A．succeeded in

B．dreamed of

C．applied for

D．approved of

2.

A．happened

B．continued

C．changed

D．remained

3.

A．sending

B．delivering

C．taking

D．handing

4.

A．pleasure

B．difficulty

C．hope

D．method

5.

A．before

B．until

C．when

D．since

6.

A．headed

B．walked

C．pushed

D．fled

7.

A．in trouble

B．in time

C．in danger

D．in place

8.

A．above

B．below

C．into

D．through

9.

A．desire

B．fault

C．right

D．chance

10.

A．responsible

B．disappointed

C．embarrassed

D．sensitive

11.

A．explain

B．escape

C．limit

D．realize

12.

A．remembering

B．sharing

C．declaring

D．stopping

13.

A．alone

B．finally

C．apart

D．perhaps

14.

A．clean

B．deep

C．still

D．fresh

15.

A．affects

B．inspires

C．attracts

D．benefits

5 . Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ____ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ____ a driving offence (犯规，犯法). Then one day she nearly ____ her record. A police car ____ her, and the policemen in it saw her ____a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed ____ that she would be punished____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ____ old to drive a car, and that the ____why she had not stopped at the red ____ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ____ old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was ____, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ____ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ____ a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had ____ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was dismissed, and her record remained unbroken.1.

A．which

B．when

C．that

D．this

2.

A．about

B．on

C．to

D．for

3.

A．kept

B．won

C．missed

D．lost

4.

A．watched

B．after

C．followed

D．ran after

5.

A．pass

B．go

C．run

D．rush

6.

A．sure

B．indeed

C．certain

D．perhaps

7.

A．Before

B．While

C．Until

D．When

8.

A．so

B．very

C．too

D．quite

9.

A．cause

B．reason

C．matter

D．trouble

10.

A．light

B．lamp

C．sign

D．one

11.

A．with

B．because

C．for

D．of

12.

A．speaking

B．saying

C．talking

D．telling

13.

A．holding

B．getting

C．carrying

D．bringing

14.

A．took

B．brought

C．picked

D．chose

15.

A．almost

B．hardly

C．successfully

D．successful

6 . Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n)__of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she____hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men____the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was,____they could get the money they had seen.__, the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers__a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the__is still under investigation(调查), local police aren’t saying__else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers__the girl in the past.
Two other__were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was__. The robbers left peacefully after____that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the____that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to___citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites_____doing so. The police say it is___that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address,_____that the robbers knew the girl in another way._____, they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have____such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that____the girl’s name.1.

A．picture

B．story

C．blog

D．video

2.

A．kept

B．made

C．let

D．got

3.

A．knocked at

B．looked at

C．broke into

D．ran into

4.

A．even if

B．so that

C．as soon as

D．in case

5.

A．Usually

B．Suddenly

C．Fortunately

D．Finally

6.

A．spent

B．left

C．asked

D．took

7.

A．robber

B．family

C．case

D．girl

8.

A．few

B．many

C．little

D．much

9.

A．ignored

B．knew

C．remembered

D．followed

10.

A．members

B．adults

C．characters

D．neighbors

11.

A．escaped

B．harmed

C．killed

D．buried

12.

A．showing

B．realizing

C．discovering

D．recognizing

13.

A．cash

B．grandmother

C．house

D．website

14.

A．inform

B．accuse

C．rob

D．warn

15.

A．enjoy

B．stop

C．keep

D．consider

16.

A．possible

B．important

C．necessary

D．strange

17.

A．so

B．or

C．and

D．but

18.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Instead

19.

A．taken up

B．set up

C．put away

D．given away

20.

A．included

B．drew

C．contained

D．attracted