Question

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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 year 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.”

1.A. simply             B. really               C. merely           D. even

2.A. crowd          B. house            C. battlefield          D. camera

3.A. producers      B. viewers          C. directors            D. actors

4.A. dangerous      B. exciting             C. normal           D. disappointing

5.A. stay           B. fight                C. war              D. life

6.A. injured            B. buried           C. defeated             D. saved

7.A. bring          B. show                 C. take                 D. make

8.A. scenes             B. passages             C. stories          D. contents

9.A. belief             B. dream            C. duty                 D. faith

10.A. why           B. what                 C. how              D. where

11.A. even so       B. ever since           C. as if                D. even if

12.A. fear          B. surprise             C. shame            D. sadness

13.A. into          B. around           C. past                 D. through

14.A. returns           B. goes                 C. past                 D. through

15.A. there             B. away                 C. out              D. home

16.A. leave             B. escape           C. die              D. remain

17.A. hangs             B. wears                C. holds                D. carries

18.A. never             B. many times       C. some time            D. seldom

19.A. consider      B. accept           C. promise         D. guess

20.A. whispering        B. laughing             C. screaming            D. crying

Answer

1.D

【详解】考查副词的用法。你到那儿去干吗呀？你不是士兵，甚至连枪都没带！  “Even”is used to add a stronger, more exact word to what you are saying

2.D

【详解】根椐后面的you're telling the TV viewers what is happening.意识到这是一位战地记者,是站在camera之前工作的..

3.B

【详解】TV viewer 就是观众的意思。

4.A

【详解】从下文的28 reporters and photographers were killed.可以看出战地记者工作的危险性

5.C

【详解】根椐常识及上下文提到的都是war,例如 “It's all in a day's work for a war reporter” “it is a war.”等.

6.A

【详解】28 reporters and photographers were killed。更多的人应该是受伤。

7.A

【详解】本题尤其要注意上下文。要注意词的搭配。Bring可以和下面的pictures和stories

搭配

8.C

【详解】在报纸里报道的内容我们通常用story， 另外，前面的：pictures to our TV screens也是提示语，由pictures对应的是screens，那么newspapers相对应的是story。

9.B

【详解】作为战地记者是非常的光荣，当然每个人都梦想着成为其中的一员。

10.D

【详解】这是你能找到刺激的地方。

11.D

【详解】take the opportunity:抓住机会。从上文看梦想成为一员和找到刺激。所以即使是战争也要去。

12.A

【详解】what am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.表明战地记者既刺激又害怕

13.C

【详解】子弹应该呼啸而过。Flow past your ear说明战地记者的危险性。子弹应该呼啸而过。fly past your ear说明战地记者的危险性。如果选around，那太“神”了；如果选A. into与D. through，那就会没命。

14.B

【详解】从上文看，你害怕了，从下文看但是当你投入到新的战争报道是你又忘了恐惧所以fear goes意思即为恐惧不复存在。

15.A

【详解】从上文的fear goes，也就意味着你又投入到了新的战争的报道。There 指的是你又重新回到了你的岗位上

16.C

【详解】Does he ever think about dying?从这句话可以看出答案。没有人相信自己会死，但总是带护身符。

17.D

【详解】考查词的辨析。“Carry ….with ”表示“随身带”，其他几个都搭配不当。

18.B

【详解】从下文的every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God,可以看出。其实回看一下上面的内容，many times与always对应，look to the sky and say to God与carry a lucky charm对应。

19.C

【详解】向上帝的作祷告时，你必须使承诺。也就是说当受到死亡威胁的时候，就对上帝“许诺”不干这项工作了。本题含有文化因素

20.B

【详解】从下面的because you know he doesn’t believe you.和上文的But that feeling __49__

after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be __50__.”可以推断出B为正确答案。