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| John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good __1__ and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was __2__ that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They __3__ a reliable woman to care for the children and made the __4__, returning home a little earlier than they had planned. __5__ they drove into their home town, they found a home in flames. Mary said, "Oh well, it isn't our fire; let's go home." __6__ John drove closer and exclaimed (惊叫), "That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn't be __7__ work yet. Maybe there is something we could do." John drove up and they were both __8__ to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics __9__, "The children! Get the children! They are in the basement." __10__ Mary's protests (反对), John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿)his clothes, put his wet handkerchief on his head and __11__ for the basement which was full of __12__. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的)children and after carrying them to safety, he asked how many more children were __13__ there. They told him two more and Mary __14__ his arm and screamed, "John! Don't go back! It's __15__! That house will cave in any second!" But he shook her off and went back by __16__ his way down the smokefilled hallway and into the room. It __17__ a long time before he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the__18__ and fresh air, he found that he had just __19__ his own children. It turned out that the babysitter had __20__ them at this home while she did some shopping. | |||
| ( )1. A.job ( )2. A.known ( )3. A.asked ( )4. A.preparations ( )5. A.Before ( )6. A.And ( )7. A.off ( )8. A.heart-broken ( )9. A.coughing ( )10. A.Apart from ( )11. A.reached ( )12. A.smoke ( )13. A.up ( )14. A.pulled ( )15. A.dangerous ( )16. A.pushing ( )17. A.meant ( )18. A.shade ( )19. A.helped ( )20. A.left |
B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged |
B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged |
D. boss D. hoped D. reminded D. trip D. Since D. But D. at D. poverty-stricken D. weeping D. In spite of D. sent D. danger D. down D. held D. stupid D. moving D. seemed D. crowd D. rescued D. forgotten |
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John lived all alone because his wife had died. He had worked hard as a tailor all his life, but misfortune had left him penniless. He had 16 sons, but they only had time to 17 and eat dinner with their father once a week.
18 the old man grew weaker and weaker, and his sons came by to see him less and less. He often worried 19 would become of him, until at last he thought of a plan.
The next morning he went to see his friend, the carpenter, and asked him to make a large 20. Then the locksmith, and asked him for an old 21 . Finally the glassblower for all the broken pieces of glass he 22 . The old man took the chest home, filled it to the 33 with broken glass, locked up tight and put it beneath his 24 .
“What’s in this chest?” his sons asked, looking under the table.
“Oh, nothing,” the old man replied, “just some things I’ve been 25 .” They kicked it and heard a rattling inside. “It must be full of all the gold he’s saved over the years,” they 26 to one another.
So they talked it over and realized they needed to 27 the treasure. They decided to 28 living with the old man, and 29 they could look after him, too. So the first week the youngest moved in, the second week the middle and the third week the eldest. This 30 for some time.