Mikio Tanaka is a devoted father----and prove it by taking three months off to care for his baby boy. That makes Tanaka __36__ of a revolutionary in Japan, where men are __37__ known for working long hours and __38__ in the bars with clients than mixing baby milk and changing diapers (尿布).

“It was __39__, but it was also a lot of fun,” Tanaka said, sitting __40__ the living room floor with his 4-month-old son, Daiki, __41__ on his back. “ I saw the first time he __42__. It was a great experience.”

Tanaka, 31, is one of a __43__ number of fathers in Japan who are taking a bigger __44__ inside the home. Men are a __45__ sight with kids at parks and zoos at weekends, though often __46__ yawning. Books and magazines __47__ fathers on how to play with and care for their kids. For Japan’s __48__ housewives, the changing is too late. In Tanaka’s case, his wife, Ayako, 28, was __49__ to take a full year of leave , for she was a school teacher.

__50__ for Tanaka, a department chief at his company had taken the __51__ leave a few years before, so his plan to __52__ three months unpaid leave was not a total shock to his __53__. Ayako took three months off for Daiki, then it was Tanaka’s __54__ when she went back to work. Daiki started day care full-time at __55__ month. Tanaka said at that time he was able to work again.

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You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells （炮弹）are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t  36  carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a  37  and you’re telling the TV  38  what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very  39  . In the first two years of the  40  in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were  41  .
What kind of people put themselves in danger to  42  pictures to our TV screens and  43  to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s  44  to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s  45  you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it  46  it is a war.”
But there are moments of  47  . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets（子弹）are flying  48  your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling  49  after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be  50  .”
“None of us believes that we’re going to  51  ” adds Michael. But he always  52  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, 53  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I  54  I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God  55  , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells （炮弹）are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t  36  carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a  37  and you’re telling the TV  38  what is happening.

It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very  39  . In the first two years of the  40  in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were  41  .

What kind of people put themselves in danger to  42  pictures to our TV screens and  43  to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

“I think it’s every young journalist’s  44  to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s  45  you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it  46  it is a war.”

But there are moments of  47  . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets（子弹）are flying  48  your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling  49  after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be  50  .”

“None of us believes that we’re going to  51  ” adds Michael. But he always  52  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, 53  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I  54  I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God  55  , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

1.                A．really          B．simply          C．merely   D．even

2.                A．battlefield       B．crowd          C．camera   D．house

3.                A．directors       B．producers       C．actors    D．viewers

4.                A．depressing      B．disappointing    C．dangerous D．endangered

5.                A．life            B．stay            C．war  D．fight

6.                A．buried         B．defeated        C．wounded D．beaten

7.                A．take           B．bring           C．make D．show

8.                A．Stories         B．scenes         C．passages  D．contents

9.                A．faith           B．nightmare       C．dream    D．duty

10.               A．how           B．why           C．where D．because

11.               A．even if         B．as if           C．even so   D．ever since

12.               A．fear           B．surprise        C．sadness   D．shame

13.               A．past           B．into           C．through   D．around

14.               A．occurs         B．returns         C．goes  D．continues

15.               A．away          B．out            C．home     D．there

16.               A．die            B．leave          C．remain    D．escape

17.               A．wears          B．carries         C．hangs D．holds

18.               A．seldom         B．never          C．many times D．some time

19.               A．consider        B．promise        C．guess D．accept

20.               A．screaming      B．laughing        C．crying D．whispering

Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.

Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my ___36___ was more manageable, I ___37___ ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. ___38___ that was years ago and times have changed. ___39___ I live with my mother on a country farm.

Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to ___40___ my disability pension(残疾抚恤金). ___41___ I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my ___42___. I decided that I would consider ___43___ to singing in restaurants.

My family are all musicians, so I was ___44___ when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of ___45___ to get started. And ___46___ you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can ___47___ use.

When I told the owner of the shop about my ___48___, he gave me a long, thoughtful ___49___. “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”

He led me ___50___ the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand ___51___ on his treasure and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your ___52___ and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”

I ___53___. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose ___54___ that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.

His ___55___ still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

1.                A．sadness        B．tiredness        C．sickness  D．loneliness

2.                A．enjoyed        B．kept           C．shared   D．set

3.                A．Eventually       B．Unfortunately    C．Surprisingly    D．Gladly

4.                A．Then           B．Sometime       C．Meanwhile    D．Now

5.                A．make up for     B．get rid of        C．take advantage of   D．add up to

6.                A．As             B．Though         C．Before   D．If

7.                A．condition       B．choices         C．positions  D．movement

8.                A．living up        B．getting on       C．going back D．reaching out

9.                A．interviewed     B．found          C．invited   D．recognized

10.               A．time           B．energy         C．knowledge D．money

11.               A．once          B．seldom         C．often D．thus

12.               A．hardly         B．nearly          C．formerly   D．actually

13.               A．family          B．idea           C．offer D．job

14.               A．view           B．look           C．sight  D．face

15.               A．along          B．towards        C．through   D．over

16.               A．lovingly        B．pitifully         C．gratefully  D．unhappily

17.               A．turn           B．role           C．step  D．pick

18.               A．ought to cry     B．should have cried C．could have cried D．had to cry

19.               A．the ones        B．few            C．the rest   D．more

20.               A．devotion       B．kindness        C．trust  D．courage