Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know
31 you are a
32 person or a
coward(懦夫). But you will never really know the answer to this question
33 you are tested in real life. Some people
34 they are brave but when they come face to face with real
35 , they act like cowards. Others think of themselves as cowards, but when they meet danger, they act like
36 .
Lenny had always thought of himself as a
37 person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy.
38 , on January 15
th, 2002, a plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to the river to see what was happening. He saw a woman in the
39 water. Lenny did not feel afraid. He kept very
40 and did a very dangerous thing. He jumped into the Potomac,
41 to the woman, and kept her head
42 the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thank to Lenny, it was not
43 .When you are in a very
44 situation and feel afraid, the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood. The chemical is called adrenalin(肾上腺素).
45 adrenalin in the blood system, you will feel stronger and stronger and are
46 to fight or run away. However, when you are absolutely terrified, the body can produce too much adrenalin. When this
47 , the muscles become very hard and you find you
48 move at all. You are then paralyzed(使瘫痪，使麻痹) with fear. This is
49 when we are very frightened, we sometimes say we’re “petrified”, which means “stone”. We are
very frightened
50 we become stonelike.
| 小题1: | | A．how | B．neither | C．whether | D．either |
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| 小题2: | | A．brave | B．real | C．hard | D．certain |
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| 小题3: | | A．when | B．until | C．after | D．once |
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| 小题4: | | A．realize | B．find | C．think | D．agree |
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| 小题5: | | A．life | B．question | C．mouse | D．danger |
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| 小题6: | | A．soldiers | B．mice | C．heroes | D．cowards |
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| 小题7: | | A．useful | B．brave | C．nervous | D．terrible |
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| 小题8: | | A．So | B．Therefore | C．Then | D．Actually |
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| 小题9: | | A．fresh | B．poisonous | C．warm | D．ice-cold |
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| 小题10: | | A．nervous | B．calm | C．frightened | D．excited |
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| 小题11: | | A．went | B．helped | C．spoke | D．swam |
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| 小题13: | | A．an accident | B．a mistake | C．seventy-eight | D．seventy-nine |
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| 小题14: | | A．dangerous | B．comfortable | C．different | D．favorable |
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| 小题15: | | A．With | B．Without | C．For | D．Like |
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| 小题16: | | A．afraid | B．unable | C．ready | D．anxious |
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| 小题17: | | A．gets | B．disappears | C．happens | D．goes |
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| 小题18: | | A．needn’t | B．can’t | C．mustn’t | D．shouldn’t |
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| 小题19: | | A．where | B．how | C．because | D．why |
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