1 . I know what courage looks like. I saw it on a flight I took six years ago. When our L9869 left the Orlando airport that Friday morning, we were a chipper, ______ group. The early-morning flights hosted mainly professional people ____ Atlanta for a day or two of business.

Immediately upon ____, it was clear that something went wrong. The aircraft was bumping _____and jerking left to right.   The pilot soon made a grave______that we were about to crash. No sight has ever been so sobering as that fuel, hundreds of gallons of it, streaming past my window out of the plane’s tank. The flight attendants helped people get into position and ____ those who were already hysterical.

As I looked at the faces of my fellow travelers, I was stunned by the changes in their faces. Many looked visibly _____ now---gray in color. There was not one ______. No one faces death without fear, I thought. I began searching the crowd for one person who felt peace and ______ that true courage or great faith gives people in these events.

All around, people cried. Many wailed and screamed. However, I heard a still calm voice, a woman’s voice, speaking in an absolutely normal conversational ______. Finally I saw her. In the midst of all the chaos, a mother was talking, just talking to her child. The woman, in her mid-30’s was______full into the face of her daughter who______to be four years old. The mother’s gaze held the child so fixed and ____ that she seemed untouched by the sounds of grief and ______ around her.

I strained to hear what this mother was telling her child. I leaned over and by some miracle could I hear this soft voice with the tone of reassurance. Over and over again, the mother said: “I love you so much. Do you know for sure that I love you _____ anything?” Then the mother put her body ____ her daughter’s, strapped the seat belt over both of them and ____ to crash. For no earthly reason, our landing gear held and our touchdown was not the______it seemed destined to be. It was over in seconds.

The voice I heard that day never wavered, never acknowledged doubt, and maintained an evenness that seemed emotionally and______impossible. Only the greatest ______and love could have borne that mother up and lifted her above the chaos around her.

1.

A．high-energy

B．high-class

C．first-rate

D．large-scale

2.

A．care for

B．look into

C．head for

D．go away

3.

A．take-over

B．take-up

C．take-off

D．take-out

4.

A．back and forth

B．ins and outs

C．left and right

D．up and down

5.

A．declare

B．announcement

C．notice

D．information

6.

A．relieve

B．comfort

C．scold

D．affect

7.

A．frightened

B．delighted

C．annoyed

D．amazed

8.

A．expectation

B．success

C．agreement

D．exception

9.

A．boring

B．calm

C．quiet

D．still

10.

A．pronunciation

B．sound

C．tone

D．accent

11.

A．staring

B．glaring

C．looking

D．glancing

12.

A．happened

B．remained

C．appeared

D．proved

13.

A．careful

B．aimless

C．intent

D．stressed

14.

A．embarrassment

B．fear

C．frustration

D．excitement

15.

A．rather than

B．other than

C．less than

D．more than

16.

A．against

B．beyond

C．above

D．over

17.

A．prepared

B．finished

C．achieved

D．pretended

18.

A．comedy

B．tragedy

C．tale

D．fiction

19.

A．economically

B．automatically

C．extremely

D．physically

20.

A．determination

B．courage

C．resolution

D．disappointment

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How did Cody Clawson spend the whole night?

A．With his friend, Ford.

B．By himself.

C．With some other boys.

2. Who helped rescue Clawson?

A．Harrison Ford.

B．Harrison Cody.

C．Cody Ford.

3. How far has Clawson been away from his Boy Scout camp?

A．10 miles.

B．10 kms.

C．13 miles.

3 . When two ninth-grade students found smoke coming out of the back of their school bus early Tuesday morning，their bus driver knew just what to do. Thanks to her _______ thinking，more than 50 students’ lives were _______.

While _______ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan，South Carolina，on Tuesday，Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy _______ rising from the back of her bus. She _______ pulled the bus over，evacuated(疏散) the students，and radioed the transportation office to ask _______ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly _______ the fire，which CBS News reported was so _______ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were _______ the fire，but thanks to Stroble，the news they received was all ____________ not a single child had been hurt.

Since then，Stroble，who has been a bus driver for seven years ____________ also works as a teacher’s assistant(助教)，has been ____________ for her brave actions. “We are so ____________ of our bus driver，” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ____________ .She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ____________ they all left. She is our ____________ today.”

The local fire department is still unsure what ____________ the fire，but some say that this 1995 ____________ has been known to have wiring and electrical problems. ____________ ，we’re so happy that Stroble was able to ____________ on her feet and keep everyone safe and sound.

1.

A．careful

B．deep

C．kind

D．quick

2.

A．saved

B．shown

C．gotten

D．checked

3.

A．bringing

B．driving

C．inviting

D．walking

4.

A．gas

B．water

C．smoke

D．heat

5.

A．gradually

B．suddenly

C．finally

D．immediately

6.

A．anyone

B．someone

C．everyone

D．another

7.

A．found out

B．turned down

C．put out

D．cut down

8.

A．large

B．wide

C．fast

D．bright

9.

A．tired of

B．angry about

C．surprised at

D．worried about

10.

A．new

B．simple

C．good

D．active

11.

A．or

B．and

C．but

D．so

12.

A．praised

B．encouraged

C．helped

D．supported

13.

A．sure

B．fond

C．certain

D．proud

14.

A．serious

B．mad

C．calm

D．positive

15.

A．after

B．until

C．if

D．because

16.

A．hero

B．friend

C．teacher

D．leader

17.

A．controlled

B．fixed

C．ordered

D．caused

18.

A．topic

B．bus

C．source

D．detail

19.

A．Also

B．Besides

C．However

D．Later

20.

A．think

B．focus

C．stand

D．look

4 . I was driving home with my son Giacomo, 15, on the A40 when I suddenly saw a small plane coining down. Out of nowhere, it _______ some 200 yards away from where we were_________, overturning and bursting into flames.

We were going 70 miles an hour and I managed to_______；otherwise we would have crashed into it ourselves. I jumped out, _________ Giacomo in the car. I remember shouting at him to stay there _________we really didn't have time to mess around.

Flames were coming out of the cockpit（驾驶舱）and I could hear screaming, so I climbed under the wing and tried to_____________the windows in but failed, and with the heat of the_________coming over the top of the plane, I _______ I might have to give up or I'd be in great danger myself. I found the small windows at the back of the plane had cracked, so my best bet was to kick those through. It ___________ and, looking back, we were unbelievably ____________; otherwise, it would have been a completely different____________.

I pulled a teenage girl and boy out.____________another guy, Joel Snarr, arrived on the scene to________________at just the right time. I don't think I would have been able to get the______________out—he was a big guy.____________, Joel seized him by the arms and got him out just in time. I could____________straight away Joel had a military background by how he conducted himself. We'd just got all three of them, Stuart Moore, who’d flown the plane, and his nephew and niece, to a safe ____________when the plane exploded.

The emergency services ____________ pretty quickly, and then they did their duty. When I got back to my__________, Giacomo and I stared at each other, almost laughing in __________. It was a very strange moment—things like this only happen in films.

1.

A．exploded

B．landed

C．disappeared

D．crashed

2.

A．living

B．driving

C．standing

D．flying

3.

A．roll

B．speed

C．stop

D．pass

4.

A．leaving

B．saving

C．blaming

D．greeting

5.

A．if

B．though

C．until

D．since

6.

A．fix

B．kick

C．clean

D．shut

7.

A．fire

B．steam

C．water

D．engine

8.

A．expected

B．imagined

C．admitted

D．sensed

9.

A．lasted

B．counted

C．worked

D．ended

10.

A．afraid

B．lucky

C．cautious

D．brave

11.

A．story

B．adventure

C．challenge

D．lesson

12.

A．Yet

B．Thus

C．Then

D．Indeed

13.

A．help

B．climb

C．explain

D．deliver

14.

A．steward

B．driver

C．rescuer

D．pilot

15.

A．Instead

B．However

C．Strangely

D．Secretly

16.

A．argue

B．tell

C．describe

D．agree

17.

A．return

B．room

C．distance

D．journey

18.

A．went away

B．set out

C．shut down

D．turned up

19.

A．car

B．house

C．plane

D．cinema

20.

A．surprise

B．sorrow

C．relief

D．confusion

5 . Crude oil (原油) taken from fields in Alaska's North Slope near Prudhoe Bay is carried by tube to the port of Valdez. From there it is shipped by tanker to the West Coast of the United States. Just after midnight on March24, 1989,the Exxon Valdez, a tanker more than three football fields long, went off course in Prince William Sound near Valdez and hit rocks underwater. About 42 million liters of oil poured out from several slices in the ship, creating the worst escape of oil ever in the U. s. waters.

In 1990，the National Transportation Safety Board NTSB) found the captain of the tanker guilty of drinking before sailing and of leaving the bridge and turning over the ship to an inexperienced and tired third mate. The NTSB ruled that the accident was the result of drinking of the captain, an overworked crew member, and inadequate traffic control by the Coast Guard.

In the early 1970s, conservationists said that a large, damaging oil escape would occur in these dangerous waters containing hidden rocks and frequented by icebergs and violent storms. They urged that Alaskan oil be brought to the lower 48 states by tube over land to reduce potential damage.

Officials of Alyeska, a company formed by the seven oil companies taking oil from Alaska's North Slope, said that a tube would take too long to build and that a large escape of oil was " highly unlikely". They assured Congress that they would be at the scene of any accident within five hours and have enough equipment and trained people to clean up any spill. However, when the S4-ilion Valdez leak occurred, Alyeska and Exxon officials did too little too late.

In the early 1970s, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton told Congress that all oil tankers using Alaskan waters would have double hulls( 船体). Later, under pressure from oil companies, the requirement was dropped. After the disaster,the oil industry had much to answer for. The accident led to an international push for double-hulled oil tankers.What if the Exxon Valdez had a double hull?

1. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The consequence of drunk sailing.

B．The cause of the Valdez accident.

C．The responsibility of the captain.

D．The role of the Coast Guard in the accident.

2. We can infer that conservationists advised

A．building an oil tube to save delivery time

B．stopping shipping oil in dangerous waters

C．bringing Alaskan oil to the lower 48 states

D．making full preparations for any oil escape

3. What did the author indicate in the end?

A．The Exxon Valdez had a double dull.

B．Morton worked for an oil company.

C．The accident might be preventable.

D．Oil companies favored the requirement.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Valdez: The Predicted Oil Leak

B．Alyeska: Lessons Not Learnt

C．The Oil Accident: Who to Blame

D．The Valdez Disaster: What to Remember

6 . Yi So-yeon, an engineer from Seoul, returned to Earth on Saturday after 11 days aboard the International Space Station(ISS)along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Peggy Whitson.

A technical problem turned a routine(常规)return to Earth into a sharper than usual descent(下降)that tested the group members' energy and courage. They landed in the Kazakh steppes(大草原)about420km(260 miles)wide of their target.

''During the descent there was some kind of fire outside the Soyuz capsule because we were going through the atmosphere, '' Yi said.

''At first, I was afraid but the two other guys looked okay so I tried to look okay too. ''

Yi smiled and joked her way through a 10-minute news briefing at Star City the wooded Soviet era cosmonaut training centre on the edge of Moscow. However Malenchenko and Whitson looked tired and thin after nearly six months in space. Their answers were short and Whitson needed support to balance when she walked. The 29-year-old Yi has become famous in R.O. Korea since the take-off but she brushed this aside and said she has had little contact with friends or family since returning.

''In fact they are the heroes right now, '' Yi said referring to Malenchenko and Whitson. ''I'm just a beginner and a little ashamed to say that I am a hero. '' She did though relate a more light-hearted incident on the ISS.

''I sang Fly Me to the Moon'' Yi said about the 1950s pop song. ''It's my favourite song from university although at that time I didn’t know I would be an astronaut. ''

The capsule's so-called ''ballistic'' re-entering made the group members face twice the usual pull from the centre of the earth. The flames Yi described may have been caused by friction(摩擦)heating the capsule as it fell through the atmosphere.

Whitson told reporters that Saturday's, ballistic landing was irregular but not an emergency.

''The Soyuz has been through its history very reliable and there has obviously been some issue in the last couple of descents which went ballistic but I'm sure the engineers will determine what the problems are and get them fixed, '' she said.

In October a Soyuz capsule carrying Malaysia's first space tourist touched down about 200 km(125 miles)off course in a similar ballistic landing caused by a technical problem.

The Soyuz is the world’s longest-serving manned space capsule. An early version of the craft the Vostok carried the first person into space in 1961.

Whitson, 48, has become the American with the longest amount of time in space with 377 days.

1. What's the main idea of the passage?

A．Flight in space is very dangerous.

B．Not everybody can go into space.

C．Fearful landing tests the Korean astronaut

D．Yi didn't know she would be an astronaut when she was our young.

2. The reason why Yi So-yeon felt afraid at first was that ________.

A．a fire was caused by the friction

B．she had no such experience before

C．she was not brave enough

D．the other two didn't help her

3. From the passage we can learn that ________.

A．Yi So-yeon, a space tourist came from R.O. Korea

B．Whitson became energetic when they landed on earth

C．the two other guys were not afraid during the descent

D．the Soyuz, an unmanned space capsule, had a long history

4. We can conclude from this passage that ________.

A．experience is very important for astronauts to ensure safety

B．Yi So-yeon will never return to the space station

C．people are not willing to experience the space flight

D．we should draw a lesson from the accident

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the man lose control of the car?

A．He hit an ice patch.

B．He had a bet with the other car.

C．He drove around the comer too quickly.

2. What do we know about the driver of the other car?

A．He was frightened at the news.

B．He was carried away in an ambulance.

C．He was nothing serious.

3. What did the man want to do at last?

A．Go to hospital.

B．Visit the other driver.

C．Call his family.

8 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或用括号内单词的正确形式。
A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia,     1    (kill) 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel.
Six people miraculously(奇迹地）survived the crash Monday night,    2    the disaster actually wiped out an up-and-coming Brazilian football team and     3    (send) shock waves through the world of football. Football legends Pele and Maradona as well as current     4    (superstar) Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo led tributes to(向致敬）the players of Chapecoense Real, a team whose march to glory    5    (cut) suddenly short. Having risen only     6    (recent) from obscurity(默默无闻），the team was on its way to play in the finals of the Copa Sudamericana     7    disaster struck. The charter plane reported “electrical failures” around 10：00 pm Monday and crashed soon after near the city of Medellin,    8    (it) destination.
The plane's black box recorders have been found, but there was no word on how long it would take     9    (analyze) them. The dead included most of the team and 20 Brazilian journalists traveling to cover     10    match. The six survivors are being treated in hospital.

9 . A Heroic Driver

Larry works with Transport Drivers,   Inc.   One morning in 2009, Larry was ______along 165 north after delivering to one of his _______. Suddenly, he saw a car with its bright lights on. _______ he got closer, he found ____ vehicle upside down on the road. One more look and he noticed _______ shooting out from under the _______ vehicle. Larry pulled over, set the brake and _______the fire extinguisher (灭火器). Two good bursts from the extinguisher and the fire was put out.

The man who had his bright lights on _______ and told Larry he had _______ an emergency call. They ________ heard a woman’s voice coming from the wrecked (毁坏的) vehicle. ________the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window. They told her to stay ________ until the emergency personnel arrived, ________ she thought the car was going to ________. Larry told her that he had already put out the fire and she should not move ________ she injured her neck.

Once fire and emergency people arrived, Larry and the other man ________ and let them go to work. Then, Larry asked the ________ if he was needed or ________ to go. They let him and the other man go.

One thing is ________—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His ________ most likely saved the woman’s life.

1.

A．walking

B．touring

C．traveling

D．rushing

2.

A．passengers

B．colleagues

C．employers

D．customers

3.

A．Since

B．Although

C．As

D．If

4.

A．each

B．another

C．that

D．his

5.

A．flames

B．smoke

C．water

D．steam

6.

A．used

B．disabled

C．removed

D．abandoned

7.

A．got hold of

B．prepared

C．took charge of

D．controlled

8.

A．came down

B．came through

C．came in

D．came over

9.

A．returned

B．received

C．made

D．confirmed

10.

A．then

B．again

C．finally

D．even

11.

A．Starting

B．Parking

C．Passing

D．Approaching

12.

A．quiet

B．still

C．away

D．calm

13.

A．for

B．so

C．and

D．but

14.

A．explode

B．slip away

C．fall apart

D．crash

15.

A．as if

B．unless

C．in case

D．after

16.

A．stepped forward

B．backed off

C．moved on

D．set out

17.

A．woman

B．police

C．man

D．driver

18.

A．forbidden

B．ready

C．asked

D．free

19.

A．for certain

B．for consideration

C．reported

D．checked

20.

A．patience

B．skills

C．efforts

D．promise

10 . Any car accident is frightening, but an accident in which your vehicle is thrown into the water, with you trapped inside, is absolutely terrifying.     1    However, most deaths result from panic, without a plan or understanding what is happening to the car in the water. By adopting a brace(支撑) position, acting decisively and getting out fast, you can save yourself from a sinking vehicle.

Brace yourself for impact (撞击力). As soon as you're aware that you're going off the road and into a body of water, adopt a brace position. The impact could set off the airbag system in your vehicle, so you should place both hands on the steering wheel in the “ten and two” position.

Undo your seat belt.     2     Unfasten the children, starting with the oldest first. Forget the cell phone call. Your car isn’t going to wait for you to make the call.

    3     Leave the door alone at this stage and concentrate on the window. A car’s electrical system should work for up to three minutes in water, so try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don’t think about the window as an escape option either because of panic or misinformation about doors and sinking.

Break the window. If you aren’t able to open the window, or it only opens halfway, you’ll need to break it with an object or your foot. It may feel counterintuitive (有悖常理的) to let water into the car.     4    

Escape when the car has equalized. If it has reached the dramatic stage where the car cabin has been filled with water and it has become balanced, you must move quickly and effectively to ensure your survival.     5     While there is still air in the car, take slow，deep breaths and focus on what you’re doing.

A．Open the window as soon as you hit the water.

B．Surviving a sinking car is not as difficult as you think.

C．It takes 60 to 120 seconds for a car to fill up with water usually.

D．Such accidents are particularly dangerous due to the risk of drowning.

E．In conclusion, if you know what to do in the water, you will be safe.

F．This is the first thing to attend to, yet it often gets forgotten in the panic.

G．But the sooner the window is open, the sooner you can escape directly through it.