20.A. nice
B. friendly
C. fresh
D. happy
高三英语专项训练--完形填空(四)
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 1 carrying a gun. You’re
standing in front of a 2 and you’re telling the TV 3 what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war
reporter, and it can be very 4 . In the first two years of the 5 in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and
photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6 . What kind of people put themselves in
danger to ___7____ pictures to our TV screens and 8 to our newspapers? Why do they do it?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s ___9____ to be a foreign
reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s __10____ you find the
excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it __11____ it
is a war.”
But there are moments of ___12____ . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes
,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets(子弹) are flying _13_____ your ears , you think:' What am I doing
here? I’m not going to do this again.' But that feeling __14____ after a
while and when the next war starts, you’ll be __15______.”
“None of us believes that we’re going to __16____ ,”adds Michael
. But he always __17____ 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
, __18_____ , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to
God,' If you get me out of this , I __19_____ I’ll never do it again. '
You can almost hear God _20___, because you know he doesn’t believe you.”
