2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Driving to Palm Springs two years ago, I met a snowstorm. A car suddenly changed the direction     1     (avoid) hitting mine and drifted (漂移) towards the side of the cliff. Meanwhile, some drivers     2    (sit) in different cars rushed out. They     3    (take) off the chains that had protected their own tyres and put them on that car’s tyres     4    (rapid). Just as the car was about to be lost off the cliff, those drivers stepped up, letting their kind hearts go beyond the snowstorm.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Before we abandoned the ship, Shackleton calmly called us together and told us to rescue our    1    (essential) supplies — the small boats, our food, the cook stove, candles, clothes and blankets. We were not allowed to take most of our personal belongings, and Shackleton    2    (he) threw away all his gold.    3    (surprising), he allowed Hussey to keep his banjo in order to keep our spirits up. Soon    4    we arrived at Elephant Island, Shackleton selected a boat party and set off for South Georgia Island to get help. We    5    (struggle) for months since their departure, but things on Elephant Island are going    6    bad to worse. Thanks to Frank and Ernest, were it not for their genuine concern for others, their    7    (persevere) and their resolve, we would all be dead by now.

4 . 语法填空。

The shopping mall,     1     atmosphere many people enjoyed, was on fire last week because the gas pipes     2     were used too long cracked. Those     3     were shopping in it were trapped. It was such a big fire that it seemed as if the world came to an end. Many goods     4     were on sale were destroyed. This was the biggest fire     5     people had ever seen. Luckily, the firefighters     6     received the emergency call came at once. They did     7     they could to put out the fire. To our relief, no one was injured or dead.

5 . 语法填空。

Two boys were rescued by a brand new lifesaving drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use     1     device. The     2    (swim), aged 15-17, had got into difficulties off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW).

A man walking along the beach spotted the teenagers     3    (struggle) in heavy waves about 700 metres offshore. Lifesavers instantly sent the drone     4    (drop) an inflatable rescue pod (救援舱), and the boys made their way     5    (safe) to the shore. The rescue was considered to be historic, because it was the first time that a drone     6    (equip) with a flotation (漂浮) device had been used to rescue swimmers like that.

Lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan was piloting (领航) the device when the alarm     7    (raise). He described the experience as a(n)     8     (real) and unbelievable one.

“The drone certainly proved     9    (it) today. It is an amazingly efficient lifesaving device,” he told the local newspaper. It took just a minute     10     two to launch the drone, fly it to the rescue site, and drop the pod. However, before that, reaching the teenagers could easily have taken three times as long.

6 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式, 并将答案填写 在答题卡上。

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.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Seven construction (建筑) workers were confirmed dead after going missing in extreme weather conditions in Altay city in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to a statement     1     (release) by local government at late night on Monday.

Starting from Nov. 20, the     2     (strong) cold air recorded in a decade has been sweeping the city, bringing in strong winds, snowstorms and freezing cold temperatures, the statement said.

At around 11 pm on Saturday, local police received     3     emergency call reporting eight staff members had gotten lost near the constructing highway     4     links Altay and Burqin county.

After receiving the report, local government     5     (immediate) set up a rescue team and successively found the eight workers as of 11:10 am on Sunday and sent them to the hospital.

Seven of them were dead and the other     6     is in stable condition, the statement said.

Due to the suspension (暂缓) of construction caused by extreme weather, 14 workers     7     the site began to be transported to nearby town on Saturday evening by two different     8     (vehicle). The first vehicle arrived at the town at 9 pm     9     the second vehicle carrying eight workers was trapped 500 meters from the construction station.     10     (fail) to pull the vehicle out from the thick snow, they decided to walk back to the station. But soon they went missing!

8 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式(每空不超过3个单词)。

At least 151 people were killed and 82 others were injured in a stampede (踩踏) accident on October 29th in Itaewon, a district of the Republic of Korea’s capital Seoul, during a Halloween gathering, local authorities said    1     the early morning of October 30th.

Many victims are largely in their    2    (twenty). About twenty-six foreign nationals     3    (be) among the dead. The incident is believed to have happened near a narrow alley in the district. Several Halloween gatherings took place in Itaewon, and the police estimated that     4    (rough) 100, 000 people had participated in the Halloween parties in the area,     5    is known for its nightclubs. More than 140 first-aid vehicles    6    (send) to rescue the injured.     7     (hold) two emergency meetings, the Republic of Korea’s President ordered officials    8    (arrange) enough hospital beds for the injured and establish an accident management headquarters, and properly deal with the aftermath (后果),    9    (include) identifying the dead and investigating the cause of the accident. According to some local media, the accident occurred when some people were rushing to a bar where an unidentified celebrity visited,     10    it is not confirmed yet. The exact cause of it is under investigation.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

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.

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

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.