Question

  Shirley Yeats is certainly a very brave woman!At the age of sixtyseven,she (1)       to take a trip round the coast (海岸) of Malaysia. Everything was fine (2)       one day,as she was going back to her room on the (3)       ，she saw smoke coming out of another room. She (4)       the captain from her room at once and told him about the fire. Then she went up on deck (曱板) to see (5)       she could do to help. The fire spread (蔓延) very quickly and soon (6)       was completely out of control. The captain decided to get all the passengers out as quickly as possible.  

  Many of the other passengers were (7)       ，but Shirley remained calm (镇静的) .She even helped the other passengers to (8)       the lifeboats.

  All 1,000 passengers were in the lifeboats and no passenger died in the fire. Shirley was one of the last people to leave. Later,she told reporters, "I was very afraid,        (9) I always knew what I had to do. I        (10) all my years as a teacher helped―all the time telling people what to do!"

(   ) 1. A. stopped   B. used   C. had   D. decided

(   ) 2. A. since   B. after   C. until   D. before

(   ) 3. A. way   B. ship   C. land   D. road

(   ) 4. A. phoned   B. told   C. asked   D. ordered

(   ) 5. A. if   B. how   C. what   D. where

(   ) 6. A. she   B. he   C. that   D. it

(   ) 7. A. sleepy   B. terrified   C. fired   D. lazy

(   ) 8. A. get into   B. get back to   C. get off   D. get up to

(   ) 9. A. and   B. but   C. so   D. or

(   ) 10. A. need   B. like   C. think   D. hate

Answer 1

1. D由下文可知她决定去旅游。decided to do sth.意为"决定做某事"。

2. C根据下文可知直到火灾发生的那天，情况一切正常。

3. B从下文captain,deck,lifeboat可确定她是在船上。

4. A由from her room可知她是打电话将情况告诉了船长。

5. C根据下文她协助乘客脱险，可知她走上甲板是去看能不能帮忙做点什么事情。

6. D由The fire spread very quickly可知是大火无法控制了。

7. B根据下文but Shirley remained calm可知其他乘客非常恐惧。

8. A"进人救生艇"用get into.

9. B Shirley告诉记者："我很害怕，但我知道应该做什么。"

10. C Shirley认为自己从教多年的经历有很大的帮助——总是告诉别人该怎么做。