Question

It was 3 am when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling of flames(火焰的噼啪声) somewhere below there was not a    1    in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.

With his father away on night    2   at a factory, Glenn was    3    about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, and his brother Todd. He ran    4   through the smoke-filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd    5    they sat up. Then they helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden.

The nine-year-old raced    6    into the house and upstairs to his mother's room. He found it    7    to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer was unconscious（昏迷不醒的）, and there was    8    to help Glenn carry her to the garden. "But the boy remained    9    and," as a fireman said later, "acted with all the self-control of a trained adult."

On the bedroom telephone, luckily still    10   , Glenn called his father and,    11    Mr. Kreamer to call the fire brigade, got on with the task of    12    his mother.

First he    13    a bucket（桶） with water from the bathroom and    14   water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth    15   his head he went back to the garden.

He could    16    the fire engine coming, but    17    would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house    18    flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?

Grasping a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and running upstairs to his mother's room. Tying one end of the string（绳子）    19    her hand he ran back, laying out the string    20     he went through the hall and back out into the garden. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.

1. A. person B. sound C. thing D. light

2. A. duty B. business C. strike D. manager

3. A. sorry B. worried C. excited D. happy

4. A. outside B. inside C. downstairs D. from

5. A. because B. until C. before D. while

6. A. away B. there C. home D. back

7. A necessary B. important C. easy D. impossible

8. A. nobody B. somebody C. anybody D. everybody

9. A. worried B. calm C. clever D. dangerous

10. A. sleeping B. burning C. working D. ringing

11. A. doing B. making C. letting D. leaving

12. A. carrying B. pulling C. saving D. asking

13. A. found B. filled C. made D. borrowed

14. A. put B. did C. threw D. placed

15. A. in B. from C. above D. around

16. A. watch B. hear C. see D. listen

17. A. when B. why C. how D. what

18. A. there B. here C. where D. which

19. A. in B. up C. behind D. to

20. A. as B. so C. though D. after

 

Answer 1

1. B。根据下文的"火焰的噼啪声"可以判断此处应填表"声音"的词。2. A。on night duty意思是"值夜班"。3. B 4. C 5. B。根据句意判断此处应是Glenn Kreamer又推又拉他们，"直到"他们坐起来。6. D 7. D。 从后面"昏迷不醒的"看，叫醒她是"不可能的"。8. A 9. B。从消防队员说的话判断，他非常"镇静"。 10. C。根据luckily和后面的called his father看，此时电话还能用。此处容易误选ringing。11. D 12. C。继续"救"他的母亲。13. B 14. C。用threw表示"洒在......上"，生动形象。15. D 16. B。根据下文Glenn又做的事情看，他只能是"听到"救火车的到来。17. C 18. C 19. D 20. A