It was early in the morning, on a lonely road. It's
1 heavily. A 9-year-old boy was in the car with his mother, who was
2 him to school. Suddenly, the car went off the road, rolled several times, and came to rest upside down in a ditch (沟渠) filled with water.
Luckily, both the mother and son were
3 seatbelts. The mother suffered a blow to her head and was unable to move. The boy was frightened but
4 . As water came through broken windows in the car, he
5 unbuckled (解开) himself, climbed out of the passenger window, made his way around to the driver's side, and reached inside the
6 to free his trapped mother. With great effort, he managed to
7 her, pull her through the window and up to the road, where they were soon
8 .
His mother later recalled her experience of the
9 . Being unable to move or even speak to offer instructions (指导) or encouragement to her son, she was
10 by her little son's action. She recalled
hearing
her boy saying out loud as he pulled her through the water, “I think I can, I think I can!”
It seemed clear that this little boy's act of courage was from one of his favorite books: The Little Engine that Could. In that
11 , when everyone else had
12 hope, the Little Engine carried the heavy load of toys and good things to eat over the hill to the children waiting on the other side. He had
13 and took action. Obviously this book had left a
14 impression before the accident that rainy
15 and motivated (激励) the son to take action if the terrifying moments.
| 小题1: | | A．snowing | B．smoking | C．blowing | D．raining |
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| 小题2: | | A．ordering | B．driving | C．pushing | D．flying |
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| 小题3: | | A．making | B．watching | C．wearing | D．missing |
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| 小题4: | | A．afraid | B．dead | C．tired | D．unhurt |
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| 小题5: | | A．quickly | B．carefully | C．nearly | D．happily |
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| 小题7: | | A．respect | B．introduce | C．recognize | D．free |
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| 小题8: | | A．accepted | B．rescued | C．welcomed | D．fed |
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| 小题9: | | A．accident | B．experiment | C．travel | D．fire |
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| 小题10: | | A．excited | B．frightened | C．wounded | D．amazed |
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| 小题11: | | A．poem | B．notice | C．story | D．dream |
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| 小题12: | | A．realized | B．waken | C．kept up | D．given up |
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| 小题13: | | A．courage | B．food | C．space | D．time |
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| 小题14: | | A．bad | B．deep | C．false | D．general |
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| 小题15: | | A．afternoon | B．night | C．morning | D．evening |
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