题目内容
Engaged in work, Rose aged 27, reached the destination hurriedly to meet visitors:her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown.But as she hurried down the 36 stairs,she started to feel 37。When she got to the platform,Rose felt weak and tired--maybe it hadn’t been a good idea to give blood the night before,she thought.She rested herself 38 a post close to the tracks.
Several yards away,Frank,43 and his girlfriend, Jennifer found a spot close to 39 the front of the train would stop. They were deep in 40 about a house they were thinking of buying. But when he heard the scream, 41 by someone yelling,“Oh,my God,she fell in!” Frank didn’t hesitate.He 42 down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails.
“No! Not you!” his girlfriend 43 after him.
She was 44 to be alarmed.By the time Frank reached Rose,he could feel the tracks 45 and see the light coming. The train was about 20 46 from the station. It was 47 to lift her.She was just out.But he managed to raise her four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the grip and 48 her away from the edge.That was where Rose briefly regained 49 ,felt herself being pulled along the ground, and someone else holding her 50 .Rose thought she’d been robbed.A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help 51 the blood pouring from her head.52 she tried to talk but she couldn’t, and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.
Police and fire officials 53 arrived,and Frank told what had happened.Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown---just as he had been seconds after the 54 which made her think about her 55 at the time.“I saw the train coming and 1 was thinking he was going to die,”she explained.
1. A.store B. underground C. train D. platform
2. A.proud B. excited C. dizzy D. disappointed
3. A.against B. by C. near D. around
4. A.how B. which C. where D. when
5. A.argument B. conclusion C. expectation D. discussion
6. A.followed B. accompanied C. caught D. controlled
7. A.looked B. jumped C. turned D. fell
8. A.screamed B. cried C. shouted D. stopped
9. A.about B. going C. right D. willing
10. A.moving B. damaging C. cracking D. shaking
11. A.minutes B. seconds C. miles D. moments
12. A.easy B. impossible C. hard D.possible
13. A.push B. drag C. held D.took
14. A.life B. consciousness C. help D.thoughts
15. A.body B. purse C. hand D.shoes
16. A.press B. wipe C.stop D.keep
17. A.And B. But C.So D. Since
18. A.actually B. slowly C.soon D. unnecessarily
19. A.risk B. rescue C.acquaintance D.appointment
20. A.action B. reaction C.safety D.case
1.B
2.C
3.A
4.C
5.D
6.A
7.B
8.A
9.C
10.D
11.B
12.C
13.B
14.B
15.B
16.C
17.A
18.C
19.B
20.B
【解析】
试题分析:本文讲述了一对男女朋友在地铁站勇敢地救起一个晕倒的女孩,防止了一场流血事故的发生。
1.B 上下文串联。根据下文的火车开了过来,可知她是朝地铁走了过去。故B正确。
2.C 形容词辨析。A自豪B兴奋C眩晕D失望;据felt weak说明dizzy眩晕正确。
3.A 介词辨析。A依靠B在…边C在…附近D在…周围;她靠着一根柱子休息。
4.C 语法分析。本题的where引导的是一个宾语从句,作为介词to的宾语。
5.D 名词辨析。A争论B结论C期待D讨论;夫妻两个人在讨论考虑要买的房子。
6.A 动词辨析。A跟随B陪伴C抓住D控制;一些人的大喊随着一声尖叫而来。
7.B 动词辨析。A看B跳C转向D摔倒;他跳到铁轨上,朝那个女孩跑了过去。
8.A 动词辨析。A尖叫B哭C大喊D停止;他的女朋友在他后面叫着提醒他。
9.C 句意分析。她这样做是正确的,一定要提醒他火车要来了。
10.D 动词辨析。A移动B破坏C断裂D颤抖;指火车就要经过的时候,他能够感觉到颤抖。
11.B 名词辨析。A分钟B秒C英里D时刻;火车里这里只有20秒的时间了。
12.C 形容词辨析。A容易B不可能C困难D可能;把她抬起来很困难。
13.B 动词辨析。A推B拉拽C举起D拿走;把她抬起来很困难,所以他就把他拉拽着过去。
14.B 名词辨析。A生命B意识C帮助D思想;指他恢复了意识,清醒了过来。
15.B 上下文串联。根据下句的she’d been robbed说明她以为别人要抢她的钱包。
16.C 动词辨析。A压B清除C停止D保持;一个男的用体恤衫帮助止血。故C正确。
17.A 连词辨析。上下文存在着顺接的关系,指他想说话,可是说不出来。
18.C 副词辨析。A实际上B缓慢C快速D不必;警察和消防人员很快就过来了。
19.B 名词辨析。A冒险B救援C熟人D约会;指在这次救援活动开始以后的几秒钟。
20.B 名词辨析。A行动B反应C安全D案件;她想起了自己那个时候的反应就是他也可能会死掉。
考点:考查故事类短文阅读
点评:本文介绍了一对情侣英勇救人的故事,有较多的细节描写,答题前一定要读懂全文,弄清文章要表达的思想,注意前后段落之间的关系。答题中,一定要认真分析,注意选项与上下文的关系,与前后单词的关系。对于一时没有太大的把握的题可以放到最后再来完成,因为有时答案可以从下文内容体现出来。答完后再通读一篇文章,看看所选选项能不能是语句通顺,语意连贯。
Accidents and illness are unhappy things to talk about, but no one can expect to live a lifetime without having some kind of accident or becoming ill. Some accidents and illnesses are serious and may result in long periods of invalidism.
The newspapers contain spectacular accounts of accidents in the street and highways and public places, but nearly as many accidents occur around the home. Somebody trips on a rug. Somebody falls off a stepladder. Somebody is careless in cooking dinner, and is burned. Accidents incurred in the playing of sports and swimming also accounts for a large number of injuries, big and little. Despite constant campaigns to reduce the number of accidents, there are still approximately 100,000 accidental deaths and nearly 9,000,000 nonfatal injuries in the United States each year.
It has been estimated that around 3,000,000 people are constantly ill in the United States throughout the year and that over half the illness is caused by respiratory diseases, chiefly colds and influenza.
The pain and suffering caused by accidents and illness tell only half the story. Loss of time from school and work and medical and hospital expenses often make the pain seem worse. Money spent in this country for doctors, services, hospitalization, nursing care, drugs, medicines, Xrays, and special treatments, amounts to a huge annual sum. Added to this expense is another much larger amount that is lost to wage earners throughout the nation by reason of their loss of wages or income while sick or otherwise disabled.
Accident and health insurance is a form of insurance devised to protect against these economic losses. It protects the earning of wage earners and finishes financial aid to the family of the breadwinner by the payment of his doctor and hospital bills. Today, business and professional men, farmers, industrial workers, clerks and those engaged in various occupations, whose earning power is shut off for a week, a month, or sometimes years, because of accidents or illness can insure themselves against this financial loss by accident and health insurance.
Protection is available to all types of workers and the cost(called the premium)ranges from a few cents a day for small or limited policies to a month for policies paying larger amounts(called indemnities). Policy is another name for an insurance contract(合同). Most accident and health policies are cancelable policies—that is, they are sold for a definite term such as a week, a month, or a year, similar to contracts of fire insurance and automobile liability insurance. There are, however, policies which cannot be canceled or terminated(终止)by the insurance company until the policyholder reaches an age at which he usually has no further earning power—most often at sixty or sixtyfive years. These noncancelable policies cost more than the cancelable policies.
【小题1】What is the passage mainly concerned about?
| A.Everyone will have some sort of illness or accident. |
| B.Accident and health insurance is available to everyone. |
| C.Cancelable insurance policies are better than noncancelable one. |
| D.Insurance is a good protection against accidents and illness. |
| A.more people die in accidents than of illness |
| B.more people who are ill than those injured in accidents |
| C.more outdoor accidents than indoor accidents |
| D.more people injured in accidents than those who are constantly ill |
| A.colds and influenza | B.financial losses |
| C.loss of time | D.invalidism |
| A.covering their medical expenditure |
| B.paying their wages |
| C.restoring their earning power |
| D.providing policyholders with the money they need to survive |
—— Do young people in that country like to be engaged in teaching?
—— Not really, for teachers strongly feel that school systems____ them ____.
|
A.let; down |
B.let; off |
C.let; go |
D.let; alone |