Question

It was black in the evening. Jason, a 12-year-old boy didn’t want to go outside. But his mother, Branda, was worried about his father and   36  he go.

That evening the man had to  37  his car, a Buick outside their house in the driveway.

38  enough, the wife hadn’t heard a single  39  for at least one hour. “Go and find him,” she told Jason.

The kid stepped outside in the darkness and called into the shadows “Dad?”

       “Jason?”  40  was his father, but his voice sounded  41  . He spoke slowly, in a strange way.

       That evening, when the man had to get   42  the car to fix it, he used a forklift to lift the car.  43  , the man didn’t place the blocks in front of the car’ s front tires to keep it from  44  forward off the forks, which was exactly  45  it did afterwards.

Little Jason saw his dad’s feet  46  out from beneath the car.  47   to take a full breath, Old Jason sank into a sleepy, half-alive  48  .

       “Calm down. It will be OK.” The boy  49   his mother. Now he couldn’t afford to be scared.

       He climbed on and started up, the Buick started to come off the ground and 50   in the air.

       Minutes later, 911 policemen arrived. Old Jason 51  beneath the car, still breathing.

       It wasn’t  52  his dad was loaded into an ambulance that the little boy 53   and sobbed.

       Little Jason says one happy change has come out of the 54  : he gets to spend more time with his dad. Old Jason, who hasn’t touched a car  55   the Buick fell on him often spends evenings with his son playing.

A. claimed              B. demanded            C. declared                D. announced

A. clean                     B. buy                     C. fix                D. sell

A. Strangely            B. Interestingly        C. Fortunately           D. Dangerously

A. word                     B. sentence              C. noise                    D. sound

A. He                        B. This                    C. There                   D. It

A. usual                     B. different              C. calm                     D. unhappy

A. into                    B. onto                    C. beneath                 D. above

A. Somehow                  B. Anyhow              C. Somewhat             D. Anyway

A. sinking              B. rolling                       C. driving                 D. running

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

A. bringing            B. moving               C. sticking                D. taking

A. Unable             B. Unlikely              C. Likely                  D. Able

A. environment      B. circumstance        C. state                            D. position

A. inspired            B. comforted           C. required              D. persuaded

A. moved                 B. drove                  C. bent                            D. suspended

A. slept                    B. sat                      C. stood                           D. lay

A. until                    B. unless                 C. when                           D. while

A. broke out             B. broke down                C. broke up               D. broke off

A. matter                 B. affair                  C. accident                D. event

A. after                    B. till                       C. when                         D. since

Answer 1

【小题1】B

【小题2】C

【小题3】A

【小题4】D

【小题5】D

【小题6】B

【小题7】C

【小题8】A

【小题9】B

【小题10】A

【小题11】C

【小题12】A

【小题13】C

【小题14】B

【小题15】D

【小题16】D

【小题17】A

【小题18】B

【小题19】C

【小题20】D

解析:

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