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 .”
小题1: | A.really | B.simply | C.even | D.merely |
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小题2: | A.battlefield | B.camera | C.crowd | D.house |
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小题3: | A.directors | B.producers | C.viewers | D.actors |
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小题4: | A.depressing | B.disappointing | C.dangerous | D.endangered |
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小题6: | A.buried | B.defeated | C.wounded | D.beaten |
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小题7: | A.take | B.make | C.bring | D.show |
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小题8: | A.stories | B.scenes | C.passages | D.contents |
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小题9: | A.faith | B.nightmare | C.dream | D.duty |
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小题10: | A.how | B.where | C.why | D.because |
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小题11: | A.as if | B.even if | C.even so | D.ever since |
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小题12: | A.surprise | B.fear | C.sadness | D.shame |
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小题13: | A.past | B.into | C.through | D.around |
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小题14: | A.occurs | B.returns | C.goes | D.continues |
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小题16: | A.die | B.leave | C.remain | D.escape |
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小题17: | A.wears | B.carries | C.hangs | D.holds |
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小题18: | A.seldom | B.never | C.many times | D.some time |
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小题19: | A.promise | B.consider | C.guess | D.accept |
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小题20: | A.laughing | B.screaming | C.crying | D.whispering |
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