Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out. So
Cruz rushed to help his
The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. Any chance of their
Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and dragged them back to land. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water
Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, though they are still kind of awestruck by their fearless neighbour. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “if he wasn’t there, I could have died.”
People love the view of old buildings in Paris, especially the Notre-Dame Cathedral (巴黎母院).
Notre-Dame Cathedral is home to many
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4 . They had to get as many people out of the burning building as quickly as they could. So they told them to jump out of the window.
The first one out of the window was a man, who was followed by his two children. Next, a baby and then the baby’s mother
It happened last November at around 4 am, when a
Boykin was at his
Boykin ran to a nearby house to get a ladder and
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And it didn’t
A.came out of | B.looked out of | C.knocked on | D.pointed to |
A.peace | B.fear | C.silence | D.secret |
A.free | B.find | C.help | D.surprise |
A.game | B.party | C.fight | D.fire |
A.reaching | B.blocking | C.kicking | D.covering |
A.so | B.and | C.for | D.but |
A.see | B.talk | C.shout | D.listen |
A.got off | B.went by | C.carried on | D.turned around |
A.car | B.window | C.school | D.company |
A.neighbor | B.friend | C.teacher | D.student |
A.important | B.necessary | C.special | D.wrong |
A.praising | B.treating | C.catching | D.teaching |
A.rushed | B.promised | C.agreed | D.learned |
A.Run | B.Jump | C.Help | D.Quick |
A.left | B.ignored | C.climbed | D.moved |
A.because | B.unless | C.though | D.until |
A.avoided | B.hated | C.tried | D.continued |
A.early | B.softly | C.fully | D.badly |
A.risked | B.saved | C.changed | D.admired |
A.disappear | B.burst | C.finish | D.settle |
5 . The night the Titanic sank
From a high place on the ship, Fred Fleet, who worked on the Titanic, saw the iceberg just a few hundred metres a way. He rang the bell to warn the people to stop the ship.
Soon after midnight, the crew of the Californian saw rockets going up into the sky from the Titanic. Their captain said, “Fireworks!
At 2:20 am on April 15th the Titanic finally sank. Another ship, the Carpathia, heard the Titanic's last call for help.
A.The accident happened at about 11:40 pm. |
B.Everyone was very proud of the Titanic. |
C.The passengers of the Titanic are having a party. |
D.It was 58 miles away, but it raced to help the ship. |
E.But it was travelling too fast to stop, and it hit the iceberg. |
F.Before the accident, the Titanic had received an ice warning. |
G.A lot of people stayed on the ship instead of trying to escape. |
6 . A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding — undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism — if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott’s last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.
1. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?A.Frank Hurley. |
B.Ernest Shackleton. |
C.Robert Falcon Scott. |
D.Caroline Alexander. |
A.Artistic creation. | B.Scientific research. |
C.Money making. | D.Treasure hunting. |
A.They were made last week. |
B.They showed undersea scenery. |
C.They were found by a cameraman. |
D.They recorded a disastrous adventure. |
7 . Cassie Thomas thought she was just meeting with the media at her lunch break. Instead, the nurse at Janet Weis Children’s Hospital near Danville got a surprise party from her workmates. It was her first day back to work after a family vacation in Clearwater, Florida, and what a vacation it was!
“Just as I looked up, there was this big pinks lightning that just came down and hit the beach, ” Cassie said. Cassie, her husband, and their two daughters were on their hotel balcony last week when they heard and saw the storm.
After Cassie saw the lightning, she saw two boys lying on the beach. So, she shouted to them. “Then one boy sat up and he just started shouting back, and I said, ‘Jay, call 911; I’m going. ” Cassie said. So the 31-year-old nurse sprang into action. She ran down 16 flights of stairs onto the beach where she found the two boys, Jansen and Cameron, who are from North Carolina. Cameron had no heartbeat.
“I rolled Cameron over and I just started compressing(按压),”Cassie said. She didn’t realize it at the time, but she-was risking her own life to save the teenage boys.
“My daughters were on the balcony and it was a very dangerous situation to put myself in. I just wished to keep me safe because I was going, ” Cassie said. “It just goes to her character to help others. And you know what? When it’s your kid, you’d want someone to be coming in and saving his life, ” one of her workmates said.
Cassie was there when Cameron got out of the hospital. “He just said, ‘Thank you; thank you; thank you.’ He gave me so many hugs, ” Cassie said. “A nurse never truly goes on vacation. I just keep telling everybody the same thing. It’s just what you do. ”
Cassie and two other people got Good Samaritan awards from the Clearwater Police Department for saving Cameron’s life. Cassie’s workmates said they couldn’t be any prouder of this-life-saving nurse.
1. Why did Cassie’s workmates give her a surprise party?A.To welcome her back to work. |
B.To see her off for her vacation. |
C.To honor her for her heroic act. |
D.To congratulate heron the interview. |
A.They were pulled into the sea. |
B.They were hit by lightning. |
C.They fell off from the balcony. |
D.They got caught in a rain. |
A.She called 911. |
B.She took them to a hospital. |
C.She jumped into the sea to save them. |
D.She gave first aid to one of them. |
A.Nurses have no time to go on a vacation. |
B.Nurses are ready at all times to help others. |
C.Nurses don’t like to go on a vacation. |
D.Nurses may be called back to work during vacation. |
A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway
The Smartphone
1. Why didn’t the man get the injured woman out of the car?
A.He couldn’t open the door. |
B.He was afraid of a car explosion. |
C.He didn’t want to worsen her wounds. |
A.On the road. | B.In a hospital. | C.Over the phone. |
A.Clear the road. | B.Run to the meeting. | C.Wait in the car. |