20.-Mum, it is nice weather. I want to skate
this afternoon.
-Don’t you think the ice on the lake is too thin to _____ your weight?
A. stand
B. bear C. catch D. take
ⅱ.cloze test (20 scores )
Have you ever thought of the
possibility that the earth will be invaded by the people from other Planets?
The evening of October 30th, was just like any other 1
Sunday night to most of
the people of America.
Many families were at home
2 the papers or listening to the radio.
There were two programmes that night which 3
large audiences. One was
a comedy and the other was a play
4 by the actor-writer Orson Wells.
The listeners 5 themselves for an hour of comfortable
excitement but, after the opening announcement, the play did not start. 6
there was dance music.
Then just as people were beginning to wonder if something had gone wrong, an
announcer 7 with a dramatic “news-flash”. In an 8 voice, he said that a professor in
an observatory had just noticed “some gas explosions on the planet of Mars”.
This news was 9 by a set of rapid on-the-spot
broadcasts. These told the uneasy listeners news that Martians had come to 10
war on the earth.
Such reporting made nearly everyone believe the “invasion”was really
taking place. At nine o’clock that evening, people in the United States had a 11
feeling of fear. In New
York City hundreds of families run away in great fear
from their houses and ran for
12 to the parks. In San Francisco on the West
Coast, citizens ran into the streets and 13
the sky for the invaders. Some people, thinking they were under gas
attack, even 14 wet towels and handkerchiefs round
their heads.
As the play went on that night Orson Wells was 15
to see the studio control room full of police. They were warned
about the panic which was 16 traffic and filled the hospitals
with screaming women. They ordered that announcements 17
be made pointing out that it was only a radio play, not an 18
news broadcast. The message was given four times 19
the programme ended, but it was not enough to 20
nationwide fear. Further announcements were made as late as
midnight.