You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t  36   carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a    37  and you’re telling the TV   38  what is happening.

       It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very    39  .In the first two years of the   40   in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫),28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were    41  .What kind of people put themselves in danger to   42   pictures to our TV screens and   43   to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

       “I think it’s every young journalist’s   44   to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s   45   you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes ,you take it    46  it is a war.”

       But there are moments of   47   . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets (子弹)are flying  48   your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling   49   after a while and when the next war starts , you’ll be

  50   .”

       “None of us believes that we’re going to   51   ,” adds Michael .But he always  52   a lucky charm(护身符)with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war .It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh,   53  ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I   54   I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God   55   ,because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

36.A.simply

B.really

C.merely

D.even

37.A.crowd

B.house

C.battlefield

D.camera

38.A.producers

B.viewers

C.directors

D.actors

39.A.dangerous

B.exciting

C.normal

D.disappointing

40.A.stay

B.fight

C.war

D.life

41.A.injured

B.buried

C.defeated

D.saved

42.A.bring

B.show

C.take

D.make

43.A.scenes

B.passages

C.stories

D.contents

44.A.belief

B.dream

C.duty

D.faith

45.A.why

B.what

C.how

D.where

46.A.even so

B.ever since

C.as if

D.even if

47.A.fear

B.surprise

C.shame

D.sadness

48.A.into

B.around

C.past

D.through

49.A.returns

B.goes

C.continues

D.occurs

50.A.there

B.away

C.out

D.home

51.A.leave

B.escape

C.die

D.remain

52.A.hangs

B.wears

C.holds

D.carries

53.A.never

B.many times

C.some time

D.seldom

54.A.consider

B.accept

C.promise

D.guess

55.A.whispering

B.laughing

C.screaming

D.crying

 

I heard a shotgun blast.I must have been hit because I was down and felt it in my stomach.I was lying on the ground of a parking a lot in the dark,scared,hurt and alone,not knowing if I would live or die.It seemed so real,ever thought it was a dream.

This dream,after my father’s death,help me understand the shock and physical hurt I was going through.I bad never experienced the loss of someone I loved.It was as if a part of me had died.

I soon began to receive and experience the incredible healing(康复)power of love.It was an honest outpouring from the people who surrounded me,wrote letters and called.One expression of sympathy I will always remember came from my friend Diana who lost her mother to cancer when she was a teenager.Soon after we returned home from Dad’s funeral there was a knock at the door.There Diana stood holding the most beautiful bouquet of flower.She put her hand over her heart and said two words,“My mother.”We didn’t need to talk.I knew she was telling me about the love she lives on. She knew how I was feeling and wanted to share this time with me.

During this time,my tears would come as easily as the memories of Dad.I believe tears are like holy water.They flow from the well of our hearts, where we hold our feelings.I stayed with my sadness.I shared it with others and received great comfort because they too had sadness.

My mother said she gardened with her grief.Her yard was never more beautiful than the year my father died.I have learned that our sadness ennobles us as humans.It means we have loved deeply.It is this love that will never die.I wrote about this in a poem the summer after my Dad died.

MY  FATHER

I think I am letting him go.

It is not that my love is diminished

or that I miss him less.

It is only that the sun is up

and there is no milk

in the refrigerator

and the bunny got out

of the cage

And is eating my red geraniums.

I think I can letting him go.

But sometimes at night

Before I go to sleep

I fill the tears

fill up my eyes

and run down my cheeks.

I do not think I will ever

let  him go.

but he gone.

 

41.According to the passage.we know that the author’s father died________.

    A.from cancer

    B.because he was shot by someone with a gun

    C.when the author was very young

    D.None of the above

42.In the third paragraph,the author uses Diana’s example to show that_______.

    A.people usually have the same feeling in some events

    B.the author was really thankful for Diana’s timely help

    C.people around him offered him much help and he was thankful for that

    D.it’s necessary to share your feelings with your friends

43.The underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to________.

    A.my tears       B.my feelings     C.my sadness      D.this time

44.The author wrote the poem “MY FATHER” to show that_________.

    A.he was still deeply sad about his father’s dead

    B.his love for his father would ever live on

    C.he has gone through hi8 shock and hurt brought by his father’s death

    D.he would live on bravely 

45.Which of the following statements is RIGH?

    A.The author dreamed of his,father and.felt shocked and physically hurt.

    B.The author had never experienced the loss of someone before his father’s death

    C.The author received,,great comfort from others after his father died

    D.Not until his father died did the author know that he loved him deeply

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