第一部分:知识运用(共两节,30分)
第一节 完形填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a foggy Sunday morning, Amrisha Vaish was sleeping soundly at home in Arlington, Virginia. The sound that woke him at 7:15 was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to 1 carefully, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree 2 in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped by smoke around the tree’s base, and its engine was on fire.
Seeing that, he immediately grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the 3 looked worse. The car was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if 4 there. He thought that no one could have survived this crash, and yet there was 15-year-old Quintin Thompson, still 5 with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Vaish tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water yet with no success. When the 6 got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.
Instantly, Vaish tried to open the back door, but he failed. He picked up a stone beside the tree and hit the back door. This time, it 7 . The back door was opened and Vaish crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Vaish noticed how 8 his legs were. Using a pocketknife, Vaish sawed through Thompson’s seat belt. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Vaish pulled him out of a window, and then dragged him to safety before the car was 9 surrounded by flames. Vaish called an ambulance as Thompson suffered severely. Soon, the doctors arrived and Vaish felt 10 .
1. A. analyse
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B. view
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C. examine
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D. question
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2. A. enveloped
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B. choked
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C. marked
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D. rescued
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3. A. wound
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B. damage
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C. engine
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D. smoke
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4. A. drawn
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B. guarded
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C. sent
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D. planted
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5. A. calm
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B. curious
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C. conscious
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D. confident
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6. A. water
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B. driver
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C. passengers
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D. flames
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7. A. responded
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B. changed
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C. worked
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D. failed
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8. A. dirty
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B. bad
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C. unique
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D. normal
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9. A. slowly
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B. entirely
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C. simply
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D. deadly
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10. A. relieved
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B. touched
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C. recognized
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D. satisfied
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