It was black in the evening. Jason, a 12-year-old boy didn’t want to go outside. But his mother, Branda, was worried about his father and
36 he go.
That evening the man had to
37 his car, a Buick outside their house in the driveway.
38 enough, the wife hadn’t heard a single
39 for at least one hour. “Go and find him,” she told Jason.
The kid stepped outside in the darkness and called into the shadows “Dad?”
“Jason?”
40 was his father, but his voice sounded
41 . He spoke slowly, in a strange way.
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 Jason saw his dad’s feet
46 out from beneath the car.
47 to take a full breath, Old Jason sank into a sleepy, half-alive
48 .
“Calm down. It will be OK.” The boy
49 his mother. Now he couldn’t afford to be scared.
He climbed on and started up, the Buick started to come off the ground and
50 in the air. Minutes later, 911 policemen arrived. Old Jason
51 beneath the car, still breathing.
It wasn’t
52 his dad was loaded into an ambulance that the little boy
53 and sobbed.
Little Jason says one happy change has come out of the
54 : he gets to spend more time with his dad. Old Jason, who hasn’t touched a car
55 the Buick fell on him often spends evenings with his son playing.
| 小题1: | | A．claimed | B．demanded | C．declared | D．announced |
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| 小题3: | | A．Strangely | B．Interestingly | C．Fortunately | D．Dangerously |
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| 小题4: | | A．word | B．sentence | C．noise | D．sound |
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| 小题6: | | A．usual | B．different | C．calm | D．unhappy |
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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．environment | B．circumstance | C．state | D．position |
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| 小题14: | | A．inspired | B．comforted | C．required | D．persuaded |
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| 小题15: | | A．moved | B．drove | C．bent | D．suspended |
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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．till | C．when | D．since |
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