2 . 阅读下面材料，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。

On Sunday, a tragedy struck in Chongqing, after a bus crashed into oncoming traffic before falling into the Yangtze River. The accident     1     (cause) by a fight between an angry passenger and the bus driver left 15 people dead.

A woman passenger failed     2     (get) off at her drop-off station. She demanded the driver an immediate stop, but the driver refused.     3     was unexpected was that she later struck the driver on the head with her mobile phone, and the driver took his right hand off the wheel to fight back. Then, he lost control of the bus and crashed into a red car before breaking through the bridge guardrail and tumbling into the river. People witnessed the disastrous scene,    4     (hope) looking on as the tragedy occurred. One of the rescue workers said the bus     5     (sink) to a depth of 68 meters.

    6     is very basic common sense that the lives and     7     (safe) of the whole bus depend upon the driver. As the one     8     (responsibility) for the whole bus, he should have stopped the bus     9     the roadside to ensure that it was safe while under attack. On the other hand, the woman attacked the driver simply on account of her own fault.

Feeling terribly sorry for the tragedy, many netizens blamed the woman for the crash,    10     others criticized the driver for his reaction.

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

It was a very hot afternoon. My friend Leah and I were waiting for the rush hour train. We were tired and couldn’t wait to get back to the place where we were living.

When the train arrived, we got into the second carriage from the front. The air-conditioning wasn’t working at the rear (后部), so the front was particularly crowded that day. I sat by the window admiring the changing landscape.

Suddenly we felt enormous pressure pushing us backwards into our seats. The windows broke into tiny pieces and dust flew around violently. I could barely open my eyes.

The train was suffering from a crash, and it didn’t feel as if it were going to stop. I thought I would be dead. I thought about my husband Guy, who was supposed to receive the news first. I thought of my dear father and other family members, wondering how each would deal with my death.

Voices began to break through my thoughts. People were anxious. Strangely, I was totally calm. I wasn’t panicking; my heart wasn’t even beating fast. When the train finally stopped, we slowly stood up, pushing off the table that had fallen onto us; others stayed in their seats and many were injured and covered in blood. I could hear screaming. A soldier pushed the damaged door open for us to escape.

Our carriage had run out of rails and we were halfway home. We had a lot of blood on us and I searched my body for wounds, but I didn’t find any. My knees felt painful and my hips were black and blue, and Leah had her hand cut when jumping off the train, but that wasn’t serious.

Helicopters landed and we saw soldiers running in and out. All around us were ambulances (救护车) and people lying on the ground. Everyone was shouting for help. I rang Guy, who was very calm and said he would come and get us. Seeing all these brought me great emotional hurt.

Paragraph 1:
It was almost dark by the time we found Guy and he drove us home.
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Paragraph 2:
In the days that followed, I convinced myself I had internal bleeding.
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5 . 假定你是李华，作为交换生正在英国Windmill College 学习。今天早晨你骑车上学时不小心刮擦(scratch)到了一辆停在路边的汽车。由于急着上学，你无法在原地等候车主。请留一张便条，内容包括：
1.       表明身份；
2.       简述事情经过；
3.       道歉并表示愿意赔偿；
4.       联系方式（Tel:5893671 E-mail:lihua@windmillco.org）。
注意：1. 词数80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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6 . “For the families of the seven, we can not bear, as you do,     1    But we feel the loss, and we are thinking about you so very much. You     2     , and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and     3    ”. They had     4    and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.”（根据句意填空）

7 . Mount Hood is the highest mountain in Oregon, a state in the western United States. At 3,400 meters it is attractive (有吸引力的) to many people, some of whom, of course, run into trouble. Each year 25 to 50 people have accidents or get lost on Mount Hood and require rescue. Although most of these are understandable accidents, a few result from careless risk-taking.

In one recent case, three experienced climbers went hiking (远足) in the middle of a snowstorm in December. Most hikers climb Mount Hood in May or June when the weather conditions are favorable. But in December, the mountain is covered in snow and ice. Winds up to 135 kilometers per hour blow the snow around making it difficult to see. Temperatures can drop below freezing. As one rescue worker put it, “What were they thinking? They were just asking for it.”

During a rescue a few years ago, a helicopter full of rescue workers crashed (坠毁) and the rescue workers were almost killed. Linda Carle, who lives in the Mount Hood area, asks, “If someone made a poor decision, why should rescue teams have to risk their lives to save them? Why do people take unnecessary risks and do things that aren’t right if they know that they can get into trouble?”

Most of the Mount Hood rescue workers are either volunteers (志愿者) or part of the local sheriff’s department. There is no charge for these rescues. It is the taxpayers (纳税人) who pay the bill. Linda Carle suggests that people who take careless risks and require rescue should be charged for the rescue. She feels it is only fair that costs for things like damaged helicopters and medical care for rescuers be paid for by the people who took the risk. What would you do if you were the local sheriff at Mount Hood?

1. What can we learn about Mount Hood?

A．It lies in the south of the United States.

B．It is the highest mountain in the United States.

C．The best time to climb the mountain is in May or June.

D．Hundreds of people get lost in the mountain every year.

2. What Linda Carle says in the third paragraph shows a feeling of        .

A．peace

B．pride

C．loneliness

D．anger

3. According to Linda Carle, risk-takers should        .

A．pay for all the costs needed	B．learn to save themselves
C．be taxed at a higher rate	D．work as volunteers

4. The author’s purpose in writing the text is to        .

A．ask the government to provide more rescuers

B．introduce Mount Hood to mountain climbers

C．advise climbers to think twice before they act

D．report some serious accidents in Mount Hood

8 . 阅读下面材料，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。

Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it     1    （break）out .

Every year, over 11, 000 people     2    （kill）or injured in house fires. These fires could have been avoided. Smokers who are     3    （care）cause about 200 deaths and over 6,000 fires. More than half of those     4     die in fires are poisoned or harmed by smoke.

If fire happens, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. Try putting out a small fire with water. If     5     fire has spread or if the flames are more than 20 inches high, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and tell them to get out. You should leave and dial 119for the fire department.

Before     6    （go）into a room, check the door. If the handle or the door is hot, do not open it! Instead, put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to keep smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it     7    （slow）. If there’s a rush of smoke or heat, close it again and shout to warn     8    （other）in side.

Now open the window and shout “Fire!”. See whether you can drop safely to the ground. Use this     9     your escape course if you can. If you are not on ground level, break your fall by pushing a mat out first. Lower yourself at arm’s     10    （long）before dropping. Once outside, stay outside and make sure the fire department is called.

9 . The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he thought it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to examine, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _________. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke from a car about 500 yards away, its engine in _________.

“I grabbed (抓住) buckets of water,” Languell told BBC News. Then he and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The badly-damaged car looked _________ up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, running into a tree, was broken nearly _________ two. No one should have _________this crash, and, _________ there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose _________ face was pressed against the driver’s side window, _________. Languell, 35, tried ____________ the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the flames got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he told WAGM-TV.

Languell ____________ the Buick’s back door and crawled (爬) in. Thompson was struggling to get ____________, Languell says. “That’s ____________ I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had brought with him, he ____________ through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free of the ____________, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, and then pulled the teen to safely “before the ____________ car was in flames,” the police said.

____________ Thompson hurt his legs, and face, a social media post described him ____________ “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ____________.”

Languell is one of the real-life ____________ changing the world.

1.

A．woke up

B．stood up

C．looked up

D．got up

2.

A．outside

B．inside

C．upstairs

D．downstairs

3.

A．danger

B．flames

C．ruins

D．trouble

4.

A．better

B．clearer

C．worse

D．larger

5.

A．to

B．in

C．through

D．of

6.

A．survived

B．preferred

C．suffered

D．noticed

7.

A．therefore

B．already

C．even

D．yet

8.

A．disappointed

B．frightened

C．surprised

D．confused

9.

A．in need

B．in pain

C．in person

D．in silence

10.

A．finding out

B．blocking out

C．putting out

D．making out

11.

A．shut

B．hit

C．destroyed

D．opened

12.

A．free

B．fine

C．cool

D．straight

13.

A．when

B．why

C．where

D．how

14.

A．got

B．went

C．climbed

D．cut

15.

A．death

B．limit

C．injury

D．accident

16.

A．useless

B．old-fashioned

C．entire

D．second-hand

17.

A．Since

B．Until

C．Although

D．Unless

18.

A．as

B．for

C．with

D．beyond

19.

A．frequently

B．dangerously

C．determinedly

D．directly

20.

A．volunteers

B．heroes

C．friends

D．drivers

10 . A high-altitude rescue team has set new standards in the Himalayas this season, performing the highest altitude rescue ever completed. On May 19th, a rescue team successfully got a mountaineer from near Camp 3 at 23,000 feet on Everest (珠穆朗玛峰). The climber named Gautam nearly reached the top but became extremely exhausted and seriously dehydrated (脱水的).

After a difficult and dangerous rescue，the team was able to successfully save Gautam’s life.

In an interview with Moro, the pilot of the rescue team, he said, "You have to be prepared, technically, physically,and also mentally (心理上).” He added, “The aim wasn’t to set a record but to save someone’s life. ”

The team has flown rescue tasks using Nepalese helicopters (直升飞机) for two years but had the idea to create a team with its own helicopter, which has been able to complete this season. The entire operation is privately financed，and according to Moro, “doesn’t cost the Italian or Nepalese tax-payer a single cent.” Moro also flies tasks for the local population for “free or at extremely reduced prices”.

Moro sees potential (潜力) for the increasing number of high altitude Himalayan rescue operations. In the future, he hopes to see more than one team , as well as a specialised team of climbers that would be able to perform rescues at altitudes and in weather condition that are impossible for helicopters.

1. What can we infer about Gautam?

A．He is a lover for mountaineering.

B．He lost his life on Himalayas.

C．He ever reached the mountain top once.

D．He is a leader of a rescue team.

2. What is Mono like?

A．He can operate the helicopter technically,

B．He is generous and helpful to people.

C．He makes good preparations for mountaineering.

D．He is potential and wealthy.

3. What does the underlined word “financed” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Loved by many people	B．Managed in a new way.
C．Supported with money.	D．Discovered by chance.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．The Future of High-Altitude Rescue Team

B．The successful Flying Task on Himalayas.

C．An Interview with an Italian Famous Rescue Team Leader.

D．A Daring High-altitude Rescue on Everest Sets a Record.