It was black in the evening. Andy, a 12-year-old boy was unwilling to go outside. But his mother, Lilly, was worried about his father and
36 he go.
About an hour ago, the husband said he had to
37 his car outside their house.
___38 enough, it seemed that the wife hadn’t heard a single
39 for a long time.
“Go and have a look. What on earth is he doing?” she said to Andy.
The boy walked out and called into the darkness “Dad?”
“Andy?”
40 was his father, who spoke slowly, in a strange way. Actually, his voice sounded
41 .
That evening, when the man had to get
42 the car to fix it, he used a forklift to lift the car.
43 , the man didn’t place the blocks in front of the car’ s front tires to keep it from
44 forward off the forks, which was exactly
45 it did afterwards.
Little Andy saw his dad’s feet
46 out from beneath the car.
47 to take a full breath, his father sank into a sleepy, half-alive
48 .
“Keep calm, mum. Everything will be all right.” The boy
49 the scared mother.
He climbed on and tried to do something to help. Finally, the car started to come off the ground and hung in the
50 .
After a few minutes, the policemen were sent for. Luckily, the father, who
51 under the car, could still breathe, alive.
It wasn’t
52 his dad was carried into an ambulance heading for the hospital that the little boy
53 and couldn’t help crying.
Andy says one satisfying change has come out of the
54 : he is able to spend more time with his dad, who hasn’t touched a car
55 his car fell on him.
| 小题1: | | A．stated | B．demanded | C．declared | D．announced |
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| 小题3: | | A．Strangely | B．Interestingly | C．Fortunately | D．Naturally |
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| 小题4: | | A．word | B．voice | C．noise | D．sound |
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| 小题6: | | A．usual | B．different | C．calm | D．upset |
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| 小题7: | | A．into | B．onto | C．beneath | D．above |
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| 小题8: | | A．Somehow | B．Anyhow | C．Somewhat | D．Anyway |
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| 小题9: | | A．sinking | B．rolling | C．driving | D．running |
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| 小题11: | | A．bringing | B．moving | C．sticking | D．taking |
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| 小题12: | | A．Unable | B．Unlikely | C．Likely | D．Able |
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| 小题13: | | A．circumstance | B．environment | C．state | D．position |
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| 小题14: | | A．encouraged | B．comforted | C．required | D．persuaded |
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| 小题17: | | A．until | B．unless | C．when | D．while |
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| 小题18: | | A．broke out | B．broke down | C．broke up | D．broke off |
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| 小题19: | | A．matter | B．affair | C．accident | D．event |
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| 小题20: | | A．after | B．before | C．when | D．since |
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