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The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院）fire has been put out, but its spire (尖顶）and a large portion of its wooden roof     1     (damage). The terrible destruction causes a sudden sharp pain to people around the world. "What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonder anymore.”

But     2     good news is that there is at least one way of seeing them, namely through a video game     3     (call) Assassin's Creed: Unity. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in     4     (real), and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire. Further, with virtual (虚拟的) reality technology，    5     is already quite mature, one can even look around the undamaged Notre Dame as if it is still there. Maybe digital (数字的) technology could help to     6     (well) protect architectural cultural heritage than ever before.

The idea of making digital     7     (model) of ancient buildings to save their data     8     (date) back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to advance since then.     9     scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with multiple images, as well as measuring everything precisely, engineers can make a copy as accurate as the real one.

As computers and smartphones are hugely popular, the digital model has great useful value. It allows tourists     10     (feel) the cultural relics without touching them.

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A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for two days is now safe at home with his family. But Casey Hathaway told     1    （he) rescuers that he was not alone in the wet, freezing cold woods. He said he was with       2    friend-a bear. The child went missing on January 22 while     3    （play) with friends at his grandmother's house in the southern state of North Carolina. When the other children returned to the house and Casey did not, the family searched the area for almost an hour     4     calling the police. Police formed a search and rescue team     5    （look) for the young boy in the nearby woods.     6     two days went by and still-no Casey. Then on January 24, someone called the police saying they heard a child crying in the woods. Police followed up on the information and searched that particular area,     7     they found Casey at about 9: 30 that night. They pulled him out of some bushes. He was in good health. Casey told the rescuers that he       8    （hang)out with a black bear for two days, a bear he called his "friend. "Sheriff Chip Hughes spoke with reporters from several news     9    （agency). He said Casey did not say how he was able to survive in the woods for three days in the cold,     10    （rain) weather.

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On Sunday, a high school senior, 18-year-old Jessica Gallegos, saved the     1     (life) of six of her friends when she realized the farmhouse     2     they were sleeping was on fire.

“I woke them up，and I was yelling，‘Get out! There’s a fire!”’ Jessica told the reporter. “I just remember     3     (see) terror in everyone’s faces as they were running out of the house. It was scary. ”

After the teens got to     4     (safe)，they watched the entire house burn down in Kaufman County, Texas. Unbelievably，only one of Jessica’s friends，Cheyenne Dupal,     5     (injure) with first and second-degree burns.

“Jessica saved all of     6     (we),’’ Cheyenne said. “If she wasn’t there，then we wouldn't be here today. I'm just really happy she was there.

    7     (early) in May? another heroic teen saved her family     8     a deadly fire in San Bernardino. Fifteen-year-old Storhmn Figueroa heard the smoke alarm going off and     9     (immediate) rushed to get her younger siblings outside. It wasn’t until they were all safe     10     she called 911.

“I was shaking so badly that I couldn’t stop,” Storhmn told the San Bernardino County Sun. “But all I could think was wow，I got everybody out.’’

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On March 8, 2014, a plane    1    (carry) 239 people lost connection with the control center. The aircraft    2    (plan) to arrive in Beijing on March 8, 2014, but it didn’t. The    3    (miss) Malaysia Airlines plane carried 227 passengers (including two babies) and twelve crew members. There are 154 Chinese.

The reason of the lost contact is    4    investigation. The people who care most about the passengers are the family members of the passengers. They have been    5    (anxious) waiting and even getting desperate after waiting hopelessly for so many days.

The   disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 has inevitably captured the attention of the world   because so little of its fate is known.     6    hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continued at full speed, with more planes and ships joining the multinational search as the time     7    (leave) to find the plane’s “black-box” flight    8    (record) runs low. Chinese, Australian and New Zealand aircraft   claimed         9    (find) objects in recent days,    10    items which were fished out of water so far have turned out unrelated to the missing plane.

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People love the view of old buildings in Paris, especially Notre Dame Cathedral(巴黎圣母院).     1    (unfortunate), on April 16, a fire destroyed the spire(尖顶) of the 850-year-old cathedral, and two-thirds of the roof. Flames could be seen     2    (rise) through the top of the monument. The citizens in Paris gathered around the cathedral, praying     3     the hundreds of firefighters who fought the flames.     4     was no wonder that people felt sad. The church itself, after all, is a historical and artistic treasure.     5    (build) in 1163, it is one of the world's most famous tourist sites, attracting about 12 million     6    (visit) every year.

Notre Dame Cathedral is home to many     7    (religion) artworks, paintings and sculptures. Despite its long history and many treasures, the cathedral     8    (need) the help of a writer to become truly famous. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, presented the building to     9     wide audience of readers. He wrote the book to remind people of it, with the hope     10     they would protect the beautiful old buildings of Paris.

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Miners have dangerous jobs because occasionally the earth sinks or falls apart. When this happens, miners are     1    (trap) underground. They are buried     2     they don't have air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink, they will die. They     3     not go without any of these things for long, but the first is the most important.     4    is difficult to figure out where miners are and reach them in time. Trapped miners dream of     5       (be) free and don't give up.

In August 2010, 33 miners     6     (go) to work in a mine in Chile, All of a sudden, a wall broke apart and rocks and dirt filled     7     mine's exit. At first,people thought all the miners died.     8     , after working for 17 days, people at the surface learned the miners were still alive.     9    , people on the surface figured out where the miners were and dug a     10    to send them food and water.

9 . 语法填空

A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway    1     (have) a close knock on Oct 22. He was so    2    (absorb) in his Smartphone that he didn't see a train approaching until it brushed past him,    3    (throw) him to the ground. This should serve    4    a warning that people should be aware of their surroundings, especially    5    crossing roads.    6    (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver     7    (stop) the train. An l8-minute delay followed the incident,    8    led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.

The Smartphone    9    (addict) has spread like an infectious disease. It's evident that it will do great harm to society. What's even    10    (bad),some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends. Some people blame the Smartphone for the sad story, yet in fact people's weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.