1 . It was a day like any other. I awoke and stretched as the summer sun lay casually ________ my sheets. This summer was going to be different—I had my ________ and my car. With my new found freedom fresh on my mind, I leapt out of bed and ran to the kitchen. My mother was bent over the sink with her phone. “Yes…I’ll be there soon,” she said, then ________ “You need to drive me to ________ my truck.” she said, turning to me.

As we ________ our way to the car dealership, my mother kept ________ me this highway was dangerous, and always _______ with rushing cars. When we drove back home, I followed _______ behind my mother. Everything was fine at first. My mother put her right ________ on, indicating that we were to the exit. The only problem was that I was one lane over and my ________ was blocked by a giant truck in the right lane. Stupidly, I sped up and ________ to pass the truck. However, I judged everything ________. The most horrifying and unimaginable ________ announced the collision, and my car began to spin off the road. There were bloody ________ up and down my legs and arms, but everything ________ worked like it should.

Tears ________ in my mother’s eyes as she hugged me tight. Hours seemed like minutes, and ________ I knew it we were driving home in my mother’s truck. It didn’t ________ me until later that day, just how fragile life is. Sure, I could easily have been killed. In half a second, all my achievements and ambitions would mean ________. Everything I’d ever done would be all I’d ever be remembered for. Life is so fragile and deserves to be lived ________

1.

A．through

B．under

C．across

D．over

2.

A．passport

B．license

C．certification

D．account

3.

A．hung up

B．call on

C．pick up

D．ring up

4.

A．sell

B．repair

C．load

D．fetch

5.

A．struggled

B．lost

C．made

D．fought

6.

A．reminding

B．asking

C．informing

D．bothering

7.

A．wide

B．busy

C．quiet

D．narrow

8.

A．far

B．free

C．hard

D．close

9.

A．door

B．window

C．signal

D．wiper

10.

A．path

B．direction

C．mirror

D．truck

11.

A．managed

B．pretended

C．ordered

D．attempted

12.

A．normal

B．right

C．wrong

D．crazy

13.

A．applause

B．sound

C．click

D．tick

14.

A．scars

B．cuts

C．bones

D．bumps

15.

A．never

B．even

C．also

D．still

16.

A．ran out

B．welled up

C．squeezed out

D．held up

17.

A．before

B．until

C．after

D．while

18.

A．strike

B．touch

C．hurt

D．beat

19.

A．something

B．everything

C．nothing

D．anything

20.

A．to the end

B．to the point

C．to the extent

D．to the fullest

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 . 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