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(2021·湖南长郡中学模拟)
The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning.Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree __1__ in smoke about 500 yards away.A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, its engine __2__.
“I grabbed buckets of water,” said Languell.Then he ran to the crash __3__.The car looked worse up close.It was nearly __4__ into two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if planted there.No one should have __5__ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his __6__ face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible __7__.Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success.“When the __8__ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he said.
Completely __9__ his own safety, Languell opened the car’s back door and __10__ in.He cut through Thompson’s seat belt using a pocketknife he’d had the foresight to bring with him.Now that Thompson was free of the __11__, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then __12__ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.
Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post __13__ him as “looking great, smiling,and joking”.Displaying the sort of sympathy that __14__ him to help, he explained, “My heart goes out to Thompson.When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so __15__.”
【语篇解读】 本文是记叙文。本文记叙了达米安·兰格尔目睹了一场车祸,并且冒着生命危险从中救出幸存者的故事。
1.A.swallowed B.preserved
C.melted D.settled
答案 A [根据下文A car was wrapped around the tree’s base和空后的in smoke可推知,树被烟“吞没”了。swallow“吞没”,preserve“保存”,melt“熔化”,settle“解决”。]
2.A.beyond reach B.under control
C.on fire D.in shape
答案 C [根据上文的描述可知,车撞上了一棵树,且根据第二段倒数第二句中的pouring the fire可知,引擎应该是起火了。beyond reach“够不着”,under control“在控制中”,on fire“起火”,in shape“呈……形状的事物”。]
3.A.levels B.surroundings
C.direction D.site
答案 D [根据语境可知,兰格尔应该是拿着一桶水跑向撞车地点。level“等级”,surroundings“环境”,direct