5、As the sound of footsteps behind her grew louder, she quickened her pace. She didn’t want to turn around as the memory of that morning’s newspaper headline made her afraid of what she would see : “City Killer Claims Fourth Victim.”

“Why did I stop for a few drinks in the bar after work?” she thought to herself. Now it was dark and the streets deserted. She was alone and a sitting duck.

She felt as if she was walking in the rain. Her clothes were damp from nervous sweat and as each short hot breath hit the night air, it turned to steam, coating her glasses in a thin film so all she saw seemed covered in fog.

The footsteps were closer now She needed to get off this street Her eyes began a useless search for an open store or lighted window Passing a small lane she looked through，for a possible escape route. But the lane was a dead - end and she laughed to herself at the irony.

The sound of a car behind her turning onto the street interrupted her self - pity Escape was at hand. But as she was about to throw herself onto the road and shout for the calf to stop, the car’s headlights cast a shadow that paralyzed her with terror.

It was the footsteps’ owner. The figure was huge and in its raised arm it held what looked like a lead-pipe, no doubt the one that was about to claim victim number five.

The shadow dissolved as the car passed by and disappeared into the distance. She felt a hand on her shoulder. It was all happening as if in slow – motion. She was waiting for her life to flash before her eyes like all those novels said it would – but it didn’t. The only thing she thought of was her dear husband. She recalled phoning him from work that very afternoon and joking about, of all things, the city killer. It was a night full of ironies.

There was a voice talking to her now but she was lost in thoughts of her fate and didn’t respond. The hand then began turning her around. It was surprisingly gentle given what was about to come. She allowed it to guide her without resistance.

She looked up. She recognized the face, but she didn’t know from where. Its mouth was still talking to her but she couldn’t understand. Then she remembered. The face belonged to the foreign looking man who had served her at the bar. She looked down to his hand and saw in it not a lead – pipe but a rolled up copy of a work report she had been correcting in the bar as she drank.

His words suddenly started to register in her brain and she could her him. “Miss, Miss. Are you OK? You left this in the bar and it looked important so I thought I’d better give it to you.”

1．The woman was feeling nervous because        .

       A．she had left her report in the bar

       B．there was a killer in the city

       C．she was being followed by someone

       D．the streets were dark and empty

2．The underlined expression “a sitting duck” （paragraph 2） is closest in meaning to “        ”.

       A．an easy target                                      B．a frightened person

       C．a foolish animal                                   D．a still position

3．What is the correct order of events that happened to the woman on the day of the story?

       a. She went for a drink in a bar.                  b. She corrected the report.

       c. She heard loud footsteps.                       d. She read the newspaper.

       e. She called her husband.                          f. She felt a hand on her shoulder.

       A．d,c,a,e,b,f           B．c,d,a,e,f,b            C．d,a,b,e,c,f           D．d,e,a,b,c,f

4．Why did the woman laugh when she looked into the lane?

       A．She was excited because she thought it may be a way to escape.

       B．She felt bitter because she had no chance to escape.

       C．She was becoming more and more nervous.

       D．She realized that she was behaving foolishly.

5．Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

       A．It was raining when she left the bar.

       B．The woman had felt nervous about the city killer for days.

       C．The temperature was very low that evening.

       D．The woman was behaving unreasonably.

4、Bird strikes are extremely rare in the airline industry, which has one of the best safety records of any mode of transport. However, birds are a known threat （威胁）at airports, particularly where runways are close to water, such as the airport in New York.

Airports take a range of measures against bird strikes, which usually occur around take – off or landing, when a plane flies into a flock （鸟群）and sucks birds into its engines. They sometimes keep the grass long near runways, because flocks avoid areas that could contain dangerous animals. Staff also use “noise guns” to disperse flocks that settle on the site. Airports sometimes hire eagles, too.

A professional pilots’ group said last night that the apparent disabling of two engines by the birds strike in New York was a “terrible coincidence” and praised the bravery and skill of the pilot who landed in the Hudson River.

“It is quite clear that the pilot got everything absolutely right. Witness reports suggest that the plane hit a flock of birds, and I must have damaged both engines because if it had been one, he would have been able to continue.”

“Engines are designed extremely well now and in general they are better able to cope with bird strikes,” said Martin Chalk, president of the European Pilot Association. “It is an extremely rare occurrence. It would appear that worse has been avoided due to the skills and training of the crew.”

A severe bird strike disabled a plane at Rome’s airport in November last year, when a Frankfurt to Rome jet carrying 166 passengers had to make an emergency landing. The airport is known to have problems with flocks of geese.

In the UK, a plane had to make an emergency landing at Manchester airport in April 2007 after two herons where sucked into the engine of a passenger plane shortly after taking off for Rome.

The low but unavoidable threat of bird strikes is one of the reasons why many people are opposing the proposed construction of a new international airport in swampland near London. According to a 2003 report, “the risks posed by bird strikes would be expected to be greater at sites near major areas of water.”

1．What was the cause of the air accidents described in the passage?

       A．Damage to the plane’s engine.

       B．Loss of vision by the pilot due to birds.

       C．The runway being too close to the river.

       D．Failure of the airport to manage the bird problem.

2．The underlined word “They” （paragraph 2） refers to “        ”.

       A．Planes                 B．Airports               C．Birds                   D．Pilots

3．Why are plane accidents caused by birds increasingly rare?

       A．There are fewer birds living around airports.

       B．Pilots and crew are trained to ignore bird strikes.

       C．Pilots know how to avoid brides when taking off.

       D．Plane engines are better designed than in the past.

4．How many serious bird strike accidents are mentioned in passage?

       A．2                        B．3                        C．4                        D．5

5．Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

       A．It is safer to build airports away from wetlands.

       B．Birds will continue to be a serious danger to plane travelers.

       C．Most accidents occur when planes are landing.

       D．The passengers were lucky to survive the crash.

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