完形填空(每小题1.5分,共20小题)
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 years 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 48 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.really B.simply C.even D.merely
2. A.battlefield B.camera C.crowd D.house
3. A.directors B.producers C.viewers D.actors
4. A.depressing B.disappointing C.dangerous D.endangered
5. A.life B.stay C.fight D.war
6. A.buried B.defeated C.wounded D.beaten
7. A.take B.make C.bring D.show
8. A.stories B.scenes C.passages D.contents
9. A.faith B.nightmare C.dream D.duty
10. A.how B.where C.why D.because
11. A.as if B.even if C.even so D.ever since
12. A.surprise B.fear C.sadness D.shame
13. A.past B.into C.through D.around
14. A.occurs B.returns C.goes D.continues
15. A.away B.out C.there D.home
16. A.die B.leave C.remain D.escape
17. A.wears B.carries C.hangs D.holds
18. A.seldom B.never C.many times D.some time
19. A.promise B.consider C.guess D.accept
20. A.laughing B.screaming C.crying D.whispering
– Could I ask you a rather personal question?
– Sure, ____.
A.pardon me B.go ahead C.good idea D.forget it
At one point I made up my mind to talk to Uncle Sam. Then I changed my mind, ____ that he could do nothing to help.
A.to realize B.realized
C.realizing D.being realized
Though there is no one in the hall, he stands on the stage as if he ____watched and expected to deliver a speech.
A.has been B.had been C.were being D.is being
Sorry I’m late. I ____ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep again.
A.might B.should C.need D.will
Not far from the river is a house,____owner seated in it reading newspapers.
A.its B.whose C.which D.where