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A violent earthquake struck Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday 24 February, 2003, 1.killed as many as 240 people and injured 600,2.(leave) tens of thousands of more homeless.
Luckily, the earthquake happened in the daytime after people had already left home3.work or school. Many people4.( save )because they were outside. Fortunately, all the school children were taking part in 5. ceremony in the street and many adults were working in the fields when it struck.
“My family had just finished breakfast when the house started shaking and we heard a loud noise. I 6.(immediate) pushed my grandchildren out of the door to safety before the house fell down.” said a local woman. Sadly, her neighbors were 7.(little) lucky: both parents died while their three children were seriously injured.
Fortunately, rescue workers 8. (arrive) very quickly. By Tuesday most of the injured had received medical care or had gone to hospital, and by Wednesday thousands of tens, camp beds and warm quilts had arrived and all the9.(survivor) had somewhere to sleep. The next step was10.( bring ) drinking water supply and electricity back to normal as soon as possible.
After work one day, I grabbed a pizza for dinner at the mall. As I was heading home, I saw a girl sitting in a corner of the mall. Her hair covered her face and her body was_______. I determined to walk past her_________that’s what we often do. But something made me turn_________. I learned her age, and why she begged for money and lived on the streets. Her parents_______years ago and she suffered from a serious skin disease. She was_______to work because of her disability and had to live in the safest place she could_______. She had stayed in shelters in the past, but was treated_______. She had to seek shelter from the mall to keep_________on cold days, but even the mall she said wasn’t_________because security(保安) always threw her out.
I’m one of those people who used to believe there was a system of ________ to help her. Ideally, I would like to believe in that. I used to think maybe one day I would________“them”. Maybe one day I would win the lottery(彩票). But when I________that girl, I thought to my self, what if no one ever helped her? What if this so called________system that I believed in didn’t even know or ________her existence? What if I didn’t ________any money? What if she was not going to be around long enough to __________that “one day”?
I didn’t really think about what happened next. I ________my dinner with her and gave her all the money I had. When security came, I talked them into assisting her ________driving her away like they usually did.
Don’t ________one day to come before you help someone. Now is that one day—not tomorrow, not next week. If you can do something to ease someone else’s ________, don’t wait for that distant one day. Be the one day. Be it now.
1.A.hot B.heavy C.weak D.wet
2.A.if B.when C.till D.because
3.A.over B.back C.away D.up
4.A.returned B.removed C.quarreled D.died
5.A.eager B.ready C.unable D.curious
6.A.build B.discover C.expect D.remember
7.A.terribly B.normally C.carefully D.patiently
8.A.calm B.wealthy C.warm D.secret
9.A.quiet B.special C.particular D.safe
10.A.control B.support C.decoration D.communication
11.A.respect B.watch C.help D.encourage
12.A.accepted B.introduced C.persuaded D.noticed
13.A.foolish B.perfect C.simple D.educational
14.A.care about B.talk about C.write about D.argue about
15.A.lose B.lend C.win D.waste
16.A.admit B.imagine C.choose D.see
17.A.cooked B.shared C.ordered D.prepared
18.A.along with B.as for C.except for D.instead of
19.A.worry about B.laugh at C.wait for D.begin with
20.A.sickness B.suffering C.nervousness D.loneliness
On 10 April 1912, an amazing, imposing new ocean liner steamed out of Southampton Harbour. 1. She was the largest ship in the world at that time, and the most luxurious. Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world. Everyone agreed this beautiful new ship was the best liner in existence – in fact, she was said to be unsinkable.
The ship’s crew had absolute confidence in her. When, four days later, Captain Edward Smith gave his radio-men the order to transmit the international distress signal, SOS, they thought he was joking. He wasn’t. At 2.20 a.m. on 15 April 1912, the Titanic sank beneath the freezing waters of the Atlantic. 2.
It is still one of the biggest peacetime maritime tragedies in history.
On 14 April 2012, a passenger ship stopped in the North Atlantic. 3. It was cold and dark. 1,300 passengers stood on deck as a memorial service was held for the people who died there. After hymns and prayers, two wreaths of flowers were thrown into the freezing water.
The story of the Titanic has touched and fascinated people for over a century. Mistakes were made that added up to disaster. 4. There are records of generosity and courage that saved lives when so many others were lost. Millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim was offered one of the few places in a lifeboat, but said it should be given to a woman or a child, and chose instead to dress for dinner. Someone overheard him say ‘We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen!’ 5.The pure drama of the scene means that the legend of the Titanic will never be forgotten.
A. For example, the Titanic’s radio room received no fewer than seven ice warnings on the night of the tragedy.
B. It was twenty to midnight, the exact time that the Titanic hit the iceberg 100 years before.
C. Survivors recalled that the lights stayed on and the orchestra was playing until the moment the huge ship sank into the black water.
D. They arrived two hours later, but only 53 people were rescued from the water.
E. It was her first voyage and her destination was New York City – across the Atlantic Ocean.
F. On that night, over 1,500 people lost their lives.
G. The order to abandon ship was given and hundreds of people plunged into the icy water.
On the day the tornado(龙卷风) hit, there was no sign fierce weather was on its way— the sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first warning my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the national television to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.
Soon the tornado was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. And the wind began to roar(咆哮) through the house, most likely through blown-out windows and the door to our garage. Everything was moving. And the back wall of the house came off and flew into the darkness outside. We had three flights of steps to get to the storeroom down there, the relative safety of the first floor.
I didn’t know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. As we finally reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches.
By the time I reached the storeroom, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the storeroom floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I held Jimmy’s arm as the tornado blew the door open. My knees were full of glass, but I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Amazingly, none of us were seriously injured.
1.Where did the couple learn about the coming fierce weather?
A. From the dark sky. B. From the national station.
C. From the local news report. D. From the text sent by their neighbors.
2.What can we infer from paragraph 2 about the couple?
A. They were hit by a tree branch. B. They tried to get out of the house.
C. Their garage was blown to pieces. D. Their house was badly destroyed.
3.What do we know about Jimmy when the author reached the storeroom?
A. He was in great danger. B. He flew out of the house.
C. He was seriously injured. D. He got inside the storeroom.
单句填空
1.This is the most ______ (power) medicine to cure your illness.
2.They were ______ (trap) in the burning hotel.
3.Mrs. Coxen ______ (aid) in looking after the children by her niece.
4.Alan looked at him and said ______ (calm), “I don’t believe you.”
5.Please pass me the book ______ cover is green.
6.They were driving by the houses ______ Andy had described.
7.Do you know the people ______ live over the road?
8.He is such a good boy ______ everyone likes.
单词拼写
1.The electricity ______ (供应) had been cut off.
2.Grace ______ (轻敲) on the bedroom door and went in.
3.She ______ (吹口哨) to the dog to come back.
4.Tuesday was a fine, clear and ______ (平静的) day.
5.Dr. Fox went to the ______ (帮助)of the dying man despite having been injured in the crash.
6.The soldiers are trained to jump from the planes with full ______ (成套装备) on.
7.The volcano could ______ (爆发) at any time.
8.He has the ______ (控制) to make things very unpleasant for us.
