You must know the “ding dong ditch”. Person A rings Person B’s doorbell, and then quickly runs away or hides before Person B answers. Person B hurries to answer the door, only to find that no one’s there. After the
1 thing is repeated several times, this is called “ding dong ditch”.
Sharon Mardis, a single mother of four, told ABC News that she
2 a “ding dong ditch” when she
3 to her door at 1:00 am last night.
“My doorbell started ringing,
4 I came to the door,” Sharon told ABC News. “There was
5 at the door. I went back in the house. I got ten or twenty
6 and the doorbell started ringing again. I came back to the door, still nobody at the door.” She got
7 and stepped outside, shouting, “Who’s that? What on earth are you going to do?” There was just
8 .
But after Sharon returned to the house, she
9 something. Smoke! Sharon quickly
10 her kids and the family pets and ran out of the house. Only then did she
11 how bad the fire was. The
12 of the house fell down; the house was quickly
13 by flames. The smoke detectors(探测器) had never
14 : they were out of batteries. Good thing for the doorbell.
The
15 is who had rung it.
16 found that the flames has fused(熔化) the wires of the doorbell together, causing it to ring. But
17 , the fire had nothing to do with the doorbell wiring at all. It had started in the bathroom, well down the hall. From there, the flames didn’t spread to the nearby
18 , where the children and Sharon were sleeping.
19 , they surprisingly reached the doorbell first, making it ring repeatedly, and
20 Sharon to avoid danger.
Sharon believes it happened that way thanks to an angel.
| 小题1: | | A．special | B．same | C．important | D．serious |
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| 小题2: | | A．experienced | B．followed | C．learned | D．practiced |
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| 小题3: | | A．fell | B．turned | C．responded | D．returned |
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| 小题4: | | A．though | B．but | C．because | D．and |
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| 小题5: | | A．somebody | B．nobody | C．something | D．nothing |
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| 小题6: | | A．miles | B．centimeters | C．feet | D．kilometers |
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| 小题7: | | A．tired | B．angry | C．worried | D．interested |
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| 小题8: | | A．cry | B．noise | C．silence | D．laugh |
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| 小题9: | | A．hit | B．touched | C．heard | D．smelled |
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| 小题10: | | A．gathered | B．settled | C．comforted | D．frightened |
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| 小题11: | | A．wonder | B．dream | C．realize | D．agree |
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| 小题12: | | A．paintings | B．roof | C．lights | D．floor |
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| 小题13: | | A．covered | B．separated | C．blocked | D．stopped |
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| 小题14: | | A．moved off | B．left off | C．taken off | D．gone off |
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| 小题15: | | A．fact | B．opinion | C．mistake | D．question |
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| 小题16: | | A．Nurses | B．Firefighters | C．Teachers | D．Doctors |
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| 小题17: | | A．fortunately | B．strangely | C．honestly | D．clearly |
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| 小题18: | | A．kitchen | B．hall | C．bathroom | D．bedroom |
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| 小题19: | | A．Instead | B．Therefore | C．Thus | D．Then |
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| 小题20: | | A．ordering | B．encouraging | C．warning | D．advising |
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