Two men on a touring holiday were injured by an explosion in their motor van (车) yesterday. Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were 1 by a loud bang, and seconds later the two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to give 2 and helped to put out the fire 3 the van. A light American truck changed the 4 to provide living accommodation room (躺的地方), 5 firemen arrived. The men, Mr. Cary House, who was driving, and his 6 Mr. Charlie Lynn were taken to hospital with slight 7 . They were allowed to leave after 8 . "I heard this explosion. It was 9 loud. I thought it could have been a(n) 10 ." said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street. "I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and 11 on the ground. Then another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a 12 state-parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees." "I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器), but 13 the time I got outside someone from the bank was in the 14 with an extinguisher." Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market"s office to wait for a(n) 15 . "The second man 16 going back into the van to see if everything was 17 , and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was blazing (burning)." he added. 18 inside the van was mainly superficial (表面的), 19 a plastic window was blown out. The two men have spent the last six months 20 . At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in the city. |
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Condition D. so that D. cleaning | 完形填空。 | Last week I was invited to a doctor"s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn"t long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor. "Frank!" I cried in astonishment. He couldn"t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine. My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank. 7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn"t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His " 12 " consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby. One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned. When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same. | ( )1.A. work ( )2.A. answer ( )3.A. covering ( )4.A. minds ( )5.A. better ( )6.A. cave ( )7.A. Discussing ( )8.A. learn from ( )9.A. needed ( )1O.A. normal ( )11.A. more ( )12.A. word ( )13.A. not ( )14.A. fed ( )15.A. attention ( )16.A. lost ( )17.A. troublesome ( )18.A. separated ( )19.A. pushed ( )20.A. nodding | B. stay B. speak B. moving B. memories B. dark B. place B. Solving B. talk to B. recognized B. common B. worse B. speech B. no B. kept B. control B. needed B. unlucky B. went B. tried B. greeting | C. live C. smile C. fighting C. thoughts C. younger C. sight C. Sharing C. help C. interested C. unusual C. fewer C. sentence C. something C. lived C. treatment C. destroyed C. angry C. reunited C. showed C. meeting | D. expect D. laugh D. pressing D. brains D. old D. scene D. Suffering D. know D. encouraged D. quick D. less D. language D. nothing D. depended D. management D. left D. unpopular D. returned D. measured D. acting | 完形填空。 | Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the week- end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we"ve both always 1 the few times a year when we can see each other. Over the 2 , we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was 3 around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with 4 and was into other 5 behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been 6 to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn"t want her 7 him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she 8 better, she didn"t believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared. I tried to 9 her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting 10 . I just couldn"t believe that she really thought it was 11 to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend. By the time she left, I was really worried about her and 12 by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come 13 to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to 14 our friendship-but I didn"t. I put the power of 15 to the ultimate test. We"d been friends for far too long. The chance was that she 16 me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could 17 anything. A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 18 , and then she told me that she had 19 with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly 20 moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend. | ( )1.A. worried about ( )2.A. weekend ( )3.A. working ( )4.A. books ( )5.A. self-destructive ( )6.A. explaining ( )7.A. on ( )8.A. did ( )9.A. told ( )10.A. somewhere ( )11.A. acceptable ( )12.A. exhausted ( )13.A. almost ( )14.A. stop ( )15.A. love ( )16.A. thought ( )17.A. mean ( )18.A. friendship ( )19.A. broke away ( )20.A. demanding | B. looked forward to B. months B. falling in love B. girls B. self-respecting B. reasoning B. beside B. deserved B. convince B. everywhere B. believable B. surprised B. nearly B. continue B. friendship B. remembered B. conquer B. relationship B. broke down B. challenging | C. paid attention to C. years C. hanging C. friends C. self-confident C. declaring C. around C. had C. force C. nowhere C. reliable C. satisfied C. close C. start C. truth C. valued C. tell C. quarrel C. broke up C. frustrating | D. think of D. days D. keeping in touch D. drugs D. self-defensive D. lying D. to D. got D. warn D. anywhere D. admirable D. terrified D. over D. make D. justice D. hated D. prove D. conversation D. broke out D. rewarding | 阅读理解。 | Robert was born in a small town in England. His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to finish university where he is studying law. The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer. Last Monday their term was over. Robert said to his father on the telephone that he was going to travel in a small country during his summer holiday. His father agreed to his plan and posted some money to him. So he started four days ago. Their plane landed at the only airport of the country safely. He took a taxi and got to a hotel in the center of the capital. He felt hungry and tired. So he had a dinner and then a good sleep. This morning he was all right and was going to visit some places of interest. He met an English visitor while he was having breakfast and the man told him to be careful of thieves. Robert thanked the man and left. But he thought he was smart and strong and he decided to have a try. He brought a piece of paper and wrote on it, "A pig has stolen my wallet!" Then he put the note into his empty wallet. After that he put the wallet into a pocket and set off. He did all carefully and hoped to find out who would steal it. "Everything went well, "Robert thought to himself after he had returned to the hotel. He brought out his wallet and put his money into it again. He had a look at the note. To his surprise, it was rewritten. It said, "Your uncle has touched your wallet!" | 1. Robert can study in the university because . | [ ] | A. he wants to be a lawyer B. his father is a rich farmer C. he"s smart and strong D. he keeps his wallet well | 2. Robert went to the small country to . | [ ] | | A. make fun of the thieves B. catch some thieves C. visit the places of interest D. have a nice meal and a good sleep | 3. The English visitor thought . | [ ] | A. there were a lot of thieves in the city B. Robert could deal with the thieves C. it was dangerous to travel in the city D. Robert had to take good care of himself | 完形填空。 | Back in my country, when I was a child, I used to go to "market day" with my mother. One day each week, farmers used to 1 their fruit and vegetables into the city. They 2 one street to all cars, and the farmers set up tables for their 3 . This outdoor market was a great place to 4 . Everything was fresher than produce in grocery stores because the farmers brought it in 5 after the harvest. My mother and I always got there early in the morning to get the 6 produce. The outdoor market was a wonderful adventure for a small child, 7 was like a festival-full of colors and 8 . There are red tomatoes, yellow lemons, green lettuce, peppers, grapes, onions. The farmers did their-own 9 . They all shouted loudly for 10 to buy their produce. "Come and buy my beautiful oranges! They"re juicy and delicious and full of vitamins to 11 your children healthy and strong!" Everyone used to 12 with the farmers over the 13 of their produce. It was like a wonderful drama in a theatre; the buyers and sellers were the " 14 " in this drama. My mother was an 15 at this. First, she picked the freshest, most attractive tomatoes, for example. Then she asked the price. The seller told her. "What?" she said. She looked very surprised. "So 16 ?" The seller looked terribly 17 . "My dear lady!" he replied. "I"m a poor, 18 farmer. These are the cheapest tomatoes on the market!" They always argued for several minutes before agreeing 19 a price. My mother took her tomatoes and left. Both buyer and seller were 20 . The drama was over. | ( )1.A. carry ( )2.A. opened ( )3.A. produce ( )4.A. buy ( )5.A. hurriedly ( )6.A. best ( )7.A. who ( )8.A. voices ( )9.A. shopping ( )10.A. customers ( )11.A. keep ( )12.A. argue ( )13.A. order ( )14.A. viewers ( )15.A. actress ( )16.A. wonderful ( )17.A. injured ( )18.A. excellent ( )19.A. with ( )20.A. disappointed | B. take B. closed B. goods B. sell B. immediately B. finest B. that B. noises B. business B. producers B. let B. talk B. price B. listeners B. inventor B. exciting B. hurt B. fair B. to B. encouraged | C. bring C. started C. food C. bargain C. directly C. freshest C. which C. sounds C. shouting C. themselves C. expect C. discuss C. quality C. actors C. advancer C. cheap C. damaged C. honest C. in C. satisfied | D. fetch D. stopped D. product D. shop D. straightly D. cheapest D. what D. accent D. advertising D. sellers D. make D. speak D. form D. directors D. expert D. expensive D. wounded D. easy D. on D. tired |
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