A friend of mine met with an accident driving in the darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t   36 .What was worse was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone didn’t  37   . Nothing could be done but  38    in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the   39    of the rescue.

  It is almost   40    that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his  41   , “First of all I checked up on my physical  42   and found myself not in fatal(致命的) danger. Finding no   43    to call for help, I leaned back to try my best to keep the wound from  44   . In this way I fell asleep.

  This  45   me of another story: A group of young men   46    to explore a mountain cave and got lost.  47  to find a way out in the dark cave they were  48    and ran anxiously without a sense of   49   . Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the  50     people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the   51    of the cave. If they stayed where they got lost and tried to   52   themselves, they would probably   53    a small light glimmering(闪烁) not far away.

  We can compare it with our   54    itself. Sometimes when we meet with difficulties in life, we feel lost in the darkness. If it is unclear, you needn’t put up a struggle    55   . Remember: CALM DOWN!

1.A. recover                B. move         C. escape               D. shout

2. A. control               B. operate      C. ring             D. work

3. A. cry                   B. lie          C. wait             D. sleep

4.A. failure                B. success          C. team             D. arrival

5.A. untrue         B. unbelievable     C. reasonable           D. strange

6.A. conclusion         B. decision         C. explanation      D. bravery

7.A. conditions         B. situations       C. signs        D. cases

8. A. method                B. way              C. road         D. approach

9.A. paining                B. spreading        C. hurting      D. bleeding

10.A. reminds               B. informs          C. demands      D. tells

11. A. had                 B. managed           C. tried            D. planned

12.A. Unwilling         B. Unable           C. Determined   D. Deciding

13.A. frightened            B. surprised        C. excited          D. disappointed

14.A. hearing               B. sight            C. touch        D. direction

15. A. rescue               B. village          C. local        D. brave

16.A. end               B. top                  C. opening          D. door

17.A. save              B. help                 C. check            D. calm

18.A. look              B. sense                C. catch            D. realize

19.A. adventure         B. accident         C. life           D. experience

20.A. really                B. immediately      C. carefully    D. certainly

The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.

The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses(病毒) passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.?

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.?

In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp(奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.?

At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.?

If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains—taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.?

No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(症状).?

1. The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.?

A. 4             B. 5            C. 6             D. 3

2. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage??

A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.?

B. Colds are not caused by cold.?

C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.?

D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already had one.

3. Arctic explorers may catch colds when ________.

A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions?

B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather?

C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions?

D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world

4. The passage mainly discusses ________.

A. the experiments on the common cold  

B. the fallacy about the common cold?

C. the reason and the way people catch colds

D. the continued spread of common colds

Eric received training in computer for one year, _____ he found a job in a big company.

A. after that        B. after which          C. after it         D. after this