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A passenger plane crashed in southern China in March,     1     killed 132 people, and both black boxes from it are being analyzed by U. S. experts at a government lab in Washington, D. C.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it is helping its Chinese counterparts download information from the flight data recorder. Both boxes may have been damaged by the impact of the crash. If the information on them can     2     (recover), it could tell why the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 went into a sudden nosedive from about 8, 800 meters (29, 000 feet) over a     3     (mountain) region on March 21.

The crash left     4     20-meter-deep huge hole in a mountainside,     5     (destroy) the plane completely and set off a fire in the surrounding forest. More than 49, 000 pieces of plane debris were found. It took 2 days to find the CVR, which would pick up voices and other sounds from microphones     6     (wear) by the pilots. Another 4 days later searchers discovered the flight data recorder, which     7     (constant) records information of speed, altitude and the performance of key systems on the aircraft. And it was, buried 1.5 meters underground.

The 737-800 has an excellent safety record and the Chinese airline industry has had relatively few     8    (accident) in recent years. Before this accident, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred     9     August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines hit the ground short of the runway in the northeastern city of Yichun and caught fire,     10     (kill) 44 people. Investigators blamed pilot error.

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Earlier this month, a team of doctors in Russia managed to complete an open heart surgery as the hospital caught fire, Now a picture     1     (take)at the operating theater goes viral on social media,     2     (move)the netizens(网民)everywhere,

According to reports, firefighters     3     (battle)the flames from outside the building as more than 120 patients and medical workers were being evacuated(转移). Despite this, the eight doctors did their best to finish the operation at the ground floor     4     (successful). Soon thereafter, the patient was evacuated to the regional hospital,     5     is about 5 kilometers away.

Cardiac surgery center department head Valentin Filatov said: “There was nowhere to go, the man had to be saved. We did everything at the     6     (high)level, as they say.”

Antonina Smolina, one of the medics, shared that “there was no panic” among the hospital crew.

When responders realized that the surgery could not     7     (stop), they made sure that the operating room would have sufficient power supply by providing an electric cable. They also had to keep smoke     8     entering the theater.

Amur Region’s Ministry of Health later released an official     9     (state), saying the operation during a fire was performed smoothly. Meanwhile, the government authorities will award the doctors for     10     they have done.

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A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been found alive, according to local media reports.

The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after an earthquake hit Sichuan on Sept. 5,     1     killed 93 people and injured     2     (hundred).

Gan did first aid for his colleague and helped prevent flooding by releasing water from the dam (大坝). Both Gan and Luo then stayed in the station for over a day without food or mobile signal. They attempted     3     (leave)on Sept. 7, walking more than 12 miles. But Gan, who is short- sighted, lost his glasses and had much     4     (difficult)walking through the mountains. The pair     5     (eventual)decided to split up(分开), with Gan     6     (stay)there waiting for help and Luo going off to find assistance. Rescuers found Luo 3 days later,     7     to their disappointment, when they returned to the place where he had left Gan, he was no longer there.

However, Gan was discovered by     8     local farmer, who heard Gan’s faint cries and     9     (spot)him lying injured under some trees. He     10     (fly)to a nearby hospital and doctors determined that he had several bone wounds.

4 . 语法填空

A fire     1    (break) out in the Henderson Tower, starting from the 8th floor and     2    (spread) quickly through the tower block on Sunday night.     3     has been confirmed that 4 people are dead and dozens of people are injured, 5 of     4     are in a critical condition. The fire was started by a     5    (drop) cigarette end on a carpet of the 8th floor and it is     6    (current)being investigated further. 

News reports on     7     same events usually contain different or even contradictory information, because journalists decide on different     8    (priority), which would affect how they report an event. So facing such     9    (fact) differences, do not rush to the conclusion that one of the news reports gives false information. Checking different sources enables us     10    (draw) a more informed conclusion. 

In a word, when we read news reports, we should be critical news readers.

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Twenty one ultra-marathon runners have died since extreme weather hit a 100-kilometer (62-mile) mountain race in northwest China.

The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon     1     (begin)on Saturday morning in sunny conditions. But by 1 p.m. local time weather conditions had turned, with freezing rain and hail stones     2     (beat) runners in Gansu County.

Liang Jing, one of China’s well known ultra-marathon runners was among those who died, as

    3     Hong Kong marathon group called Hong Kong 100 Ultra Marathon confirmed via a statement     4     (release) on Sunday.

As temperatures dropped in the Yellow River Stone Forest, some started to report suffering from hypothermia, while     5     went missing. The marathon     6     (organize) canceled the race and immediately they launched a search party of 1,200 people to scour the complicated terrain.

One race participant told the local publication Red Star News: “It was     7     (awful) freezing.” He said he decided to abandon the race. “I managed to enter a wooden cabin at the direction of a rescuer,     8     there were already about 10 more runners and within half an hour about 50 runners came and took shelter     9     extreme weather in the cabin.” 

By Sunday morning, 151 of the 172 runners had been confirmed safe, with eight in hospital. Another 21 were found     10     (die), according People’s Daily.

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A cruise ship     1     (carry) 456 people capsized(翻) on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. Officials say so far only 15 people     2     (survive).     3     is reported that the ship sank within a few     4     (minute), while many people were asleep. Most of those     5     board were tourists aged between 50 and 80 travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing. There is no doubt     6     for some of those on the Eastern Star it would have been the trip of a lifetime. One survivor,     7     tour guide said the ship began to shake     8     (violent) and capsized all of a sudden. A 65-year-old woman was among those     9     (save) from the ship by brave divers. She said she tried to hold on to     10     she could find to keep her head above water in the darkness until divers came to her rescue.

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According to the latest Chinese report, a Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633     1     (operate) by an A319 made an emergency landing at CTU at 07:42 on Monday morning.

When the flight was on     2     (it) way from Chongqing to Lhasa, the pilot heard a sharp sound, and then the windshield(风挡) broke off. Captain Liu Chuanjian,     3     has 25 years of flight experience, found himself in a tough struggle to maintain control of a plane full of 119 passengers. He turned to his co-pilot only     4     (see) “half his body suspended out of the window,” he said. “     5     (fortunate), he was wearing a seat belt.” Liu described the terror at 30,000     6     (foot) during an interview with the Chengdu Business News. No one     7     (kill). “The crew members are     8     good condition and after full rest, they will continue to perform the sacred duty of safe flight,” the airline said. Another 27 passengers sought assistance after     9     plane made an emergency landing in the Chinese city of Chengdu. None of them appeared seriously hurt, the airline said,     10     (add) that it had arranged for special personnel to accompany the travelers.