Lisa Pina never thought she would need the fire safety training she received during her apprenticeship (学徒期) as a union painter and dry waller. On Friday morning,she was thanking God she had it.

On Thursday night,while Pina was babysitting her granddaughter,nephew and two nieces in her sister’s apartment,she smelled smoke and realized the apartment building was on fire. When her 4?year?old granddaughter Ilean Garcia began saying,“We’re going to die,”she knew she had to act.Pina,39,first sealed the door,and then told all four children to get on the floor. After calling 911,she told the children to start singing and promised them all treats as soon as they reached safety. “I said,‘OK,we’re going to lie down and we’re all going to play a game,’” Pina said. “We all started singing our ABCs and 123s.I was just trying to make it fun.” Pina patiently waited,and a few minutes later,Riverside County sheriff’s deputies (治安官的助手) arrived. Pina,Ilean,8?year?old Gabriel Parga,5?year?old Aubreyana Parga and 4?year?old Meriyah Parga were all trapped on the second floor as flames filled the first story. Pina did the only thing she could. She opened the window and dropped the children,one?by?one,into the arms of the sheriff’s deputies about 15 to 20 feet below. “I just needed to keep the kids calm so they wouldn’t be afraid,”Pina said. “I was deathly afraid inside,but I couldn’t let them know that.”[Not long after dropping the children out of the window,firefighters arrived with a ladder and rescued her. Ten people were treated at the scene for suffering smoke,but nobody was seriously injured.

1.The text is mainly about________.

A.a big fire without serious injury

B.an urgent call 911

C.a brave babysitter

D.a babysitter rescuing kids from a big fire

2.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refers to________.

A.a union painter

B.a dry waller

C.the fire safety training

D.the apprenticeship

3..Before Lisa Pina called 911,in order to prevent the fire,she________.

A. let children get on the floor

B.opened the windows of the second floor

C.closed the door hard

D.had children start singing

4.According to the text,we know that________.

A.Lisa Pina was the last one to be rescued

B.the fire didn’t cause any injury

C.the children were sent to hospital after the fire

D.during the fire Lisa Pina wasn’t afraid at all

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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Twenty-one years ago, my husband gave me Sam, an eight-week-old dog, to help me ease the loss of our daughter. Later my husband and I moved from New York to New Jersey where our neighbor, whose cat had ________ had kittens, asked us if we would like one. We were afraid that Sam would not be ________ , but we made up our ________ to take a kitten.

We picked a little, gray, playful cat. She ________ around running after imaginary mice and squirrels and jumped from table to chair very ________ , so we named her Lightning (闪电).

At ________ , Sam and Lightning were not close to each other. But slowly, as the days went on, Lightning started ________ Sam. They slept together, ate together and played together. When I took ________ one out of the house, the other was always ________ by the door when we returned. That was the ________ it was for years.

Then, without any ________ , Sam suddenly died of a weak heart. This time, there was no Sam for Lightning to greet and no way to ________ why she would never see her friend again.

In the ________ that followed, Lightning seemed heartbroken. She could not ________ me in words that she was ________ , but I could see the pain and ________ in her eyes whenever anyone opened the front door. The weeks ________ by, and the cat’s sorrow seemed to be lifting. One day as I walked into our living room, I ________ to have a look at the floor next to our sofa where we had a sculptured replica (雕塑复制品) of Sam that we had bought a few years before. ________ next to the statue, one arm wrapped around the statue’s neck, was Lightning, sleeping with her best ________ .

1.A. recently B.lastly C.firstly D.never

2.A. sad B.excited C.disappointed D.glad

3.A. minds B.hearts C.heads D.brains

4.A. walked B.climbed C.raced D.hid

5.A. slowly B.quickly C.carefully D.bravely

6.A. last B.noon C.night D.first

7.A. leaving B.following C.hating D.catching

8.A. neither B.both C.either D.any

9.A. waiting B.sleeping C.crying D.barking

10.A. road B.path C.way D.street

11.A. words B.diseases C.fear D.warning

12.A. talk B.explain C.think D.write

13.A. days B.months C.seasons D.years

14.A. express B.tell C.report D.say

15.A. enjoying B. doing C.suffering D.missing

16.A. disappointment B.anger C.gathered D.fun

17.A. came B.went C.gathered D.walked

18.A. seemed B.appeared C.happened D.meant

19.A. Running B.Laying C.Playing D.Lying

20.A. friend B.enemy C.sofa D.chair

Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus(柑橘)fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruit and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereals(谷类食品), and rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.

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People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

Paragraph 3

There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1. It is important for people to eat ________.

A. three times a day

B. dinner at twelve o’clock

C. cooked food all the day

D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day

2. People in different countries and different places of the world ________.

A. have the right kinds of food to eat

B. cook their food in the same way

C. have their meals at the same time

D. eat food in different ways

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

B. There are too many people in the world.

C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.

4. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A. When people eat their lunch.

B. What to do with the two problems.

C. How to cook food in different ways.

D. Why people eat different kinds of food.

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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made a deep on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a , I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death, only what is truly important.

About a year ago I was with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs order, which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die. I with that diagnosis all the days. , at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all . No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of . It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is , so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be by dogma(教条)—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner . And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart.

1.A. impression B. curse C. decision D. joke

2.A. seen B. looked C. found D. lost

3.A. would B. should C. might D. could

4.A. hurry B. line C. moment D. row

5.A. successful B. rich C. dead D. frustrated

6.A. apologies B. fortune C. impressions D. choices

7.A. proving B. leaving C. confirming D. telling

8.A. diagnosed B. cured C. treated D. found

9.A. on B. for C. in D. at

10.A. met B. got C. did D. lived

11.A. However B. But C. Therefore D. So

12.A. incurable B. curable C. fatal D. changeable

13.A. Anyone B. Someone C. No one D. Everyone

14.A. want B. avoid C. share D. escape

15.A. destination B. life C. science D. disease

16.A. make up B. make for C. make out D. make way

17.A. distant B. short C. long D. away

18.A. limited B. rare C. enough D. lost

19.A. wasted B. cheated C. excited D. trapped

20.A. voice B. love C. direction D. Confusion

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