I’ve often puzzled over something that happened to me one winter when I was eight. Over the years I had been wondering if my
31 was nothing more than a kid’s imagination.
There was a
32 near our house. In winter it was the greatest
33 place in the world. One
34 all I wanted to do was go skating. I had been waiting for weeks
35 the water was frozen solid. Mom had one rule: “Never ice-skate alone.” But I couldn’t
36 any longer that afternoon. So I
37 my skates under my coat and ran to the pond. Several people were skating near the shore, and some kids were playing hockey．I was not really
38 ．
The hockey game had attracted
39 audience, so I skated in the other direction until their cheering
40 . But another noise came soon. The ice was cracking beneath me. Freezing water
41 my body, and I sank like a rock. My feet
42 the bottom. Just when I thought I wouldn’t last another
43 , I felt a tap on my shoulder. “Don’t worry,” someone said. I swung my
44 around. I couldn’t see anybody. But I heard the voice again，“Push your feet into the bottom and you’ll shoot straight up to the surface.” I did as I was told and
45 . I crawled to the shore and lay down,
46 ．The next thing I knew was people were
47 around me, covering me with coats.
When I awoke, I was home in my own bed. Mom sat next to me,
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my hand. “I saw nobody there. It must be an angel that came to my
49 ．” I said. Mom smiled, “I just thank God you’re safe.”
For a long time I thought I would
50 a more realistic explanation if I just thought hard, but I never did.
| 小题1: | | A．attention | B．behavior | C．explanation | D．reason |
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| 小题3: | | A．skating | B．fishing | C．swimming | D．skiing |
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| 小题4: | | A．afternoon | B．morning | C．evening | D．night |
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| 小题7: | | A．found | B．threw | C．took | D．hid |
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| 小题8: | | A．lonely | B．single | C．alone | D．afraid |
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| 小题9: | | A．noisy | B．happy | C．small | D．young |
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| 小题10: | | A．changed | B．disappeared | C．increased | D．stopped |
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| 小题11: | | A．filled | B．controlled | C．covered | D．loaded |
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| 小题12: | | A．hit | B．dragged | C．set | D．tapped |
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| 小题13: | | A．day | B．hour | C．minute | D．second |
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| 小题15: | | A．left | B．succeeded | C．tried | D．survived |
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| 小题16: | | A．worried | B．surprised | C．excited | D．exhausted |
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| 小题17: | | A．lying | B．standing | C．laughing | D．crawling |
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| 小题18: | | A．raising | B．shaking | C．holding | D．washing |
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| 小题19: | | A．place | B．mind | C．defense | D．rescue |
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| 小题20: | | A．take up | B．make up with | C．bring up | D．come up with |
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my hand. “I saw nobody there. It must be an angel that came to my 49 ．” I said. Mom smiled, “I just thank God you’re safe.”