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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