摘要： 完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Two weeks ago, my 90-year-old mother, Catherine Ritchie, was preparing
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Two weeks ago, my 90-year-old mother, Catherine Ritchie, was preparing herself for bed at around 9 pm. After brushing her teeth and hair, she turned around to find her bed completely engulfed(吞没) in flames. She made an ____16____ to extinguish the flames herself by ____17____ blankets and pillows on the fire. The smoke and heat were so overwhelming that she immediately lost her sense of ____18____, gave up ____19____ the fire, and decided to flee. She pushed the emergency call button she ____20____ on her necklace, called 911, and attempted to get out of her now engulfed ____21____. She walked into the closet several times thinking it was the door that ____22____ to the hallway. It wasn’t. She couldn’t find her way out. She was ____23____. Smoke everywhere.
Across the street, 4 boys saw the smoke and ____24____ of flames. Not an adult in _____25_____. 4 kids who took immediate _____26_____ to save an elderly woman who they couldn’t _____27_____ was home and who 3 of them had never even _____28_____. One started breaking the glass on the front door. One called 911. One went to the back door and began kicking it in. One went to the _____29_____ for an ax and help. Within minutes, a door was _____30_____ in by a 14-year-old child who found my mother and picked her up in his _____31_____. Kids who are told about all the things they aren’t _____32_____ enough to do saved the life of the most precious and beloved woman we know. Courageous young men _____33_____ their own lives, their own safety, perhaps their good _____34_____ with their parents who might have chosen for them to do _____35_____, and they carried my mother out of her burning home into the street, where firetrucks and ambulances would soon arrive.
Dylan Wick – 16 years old, Nick Byrd – 14 years old, Seth Byrd – 16 years old, and Wyatt Hall – 17 years old, thank you!
16. A. appeal B. experiment C. operation D. attempt
17. A. dragging B. throwing C. distributing D. spreading
18. A. direction B. balance C. urgency D. self
19. A. covering B. catching C. fighting D. spilling
20. A. wears B. holds C. purchases D. decorates
21. A. kitchen B. toilet C. closet D. bedroom
22. A. leads B. conducts C. connects D. links
23. A. cast B. resisted C. stuck D. adapted
24. A. reflection B. regulation C. caption D. construction
25. A. condition B. charge C. demand D. sight
26. A. step B. effect C. action D. responsibility
27. A. arrange B. guarantee C. promise D. suspect
28. A. witnessed B. reached C. met D. heard
29. A. neighbors B. barbers C. shelter D. basement
30. A. knocked B. kicked C. forced D. settled
31. A. hands B. arms C. effort D. favor
32. A. stable B. acute C. brave D. old
33. A. risked B. gave C. devoted D. saved
34. A. association B. relationship C. assumption D. reputation
35. A. instead B. though C. otherwise D. yet
【答案】16. D 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. A 21. D 22. A 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. B 31. B 32. D 33. A 34. B 35. C
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