Question

     You are near the front line of a battle . Around you shells 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 （子彈）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（護(hù)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 .”

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

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

38．A．producers         B．viewers             C．directors           D．a(chǎn)ctors

39．A．dangerous         B．exciting             C．normal              D．disappointing

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

41．A．injured            B．buried               C．defeated                D．saved

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

43．A．scenes              B．passages              C．stories               D．contents

44．A．belief              B．dream                   C．duty                    D．faith

45．A．why                B．what                 C．how                    D．where

46．A．even so            B．ever since            C．a(chǎn)s if                D．even if

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

48．A．into                 B．a(chǎn)round                  C．past                 D．through

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

50．A．there                B．a(chǎn)way                 C．out                  D．home

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

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

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

54．A．consider           B．a(chǎn)ccept               C．promise           D．guess

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

Answer 1

36.D   37.D   38.B   39.A   40.C 41.A   42.A   43.C   44.B   45.D   

46.D   47.A   48.C   49.B   50.A51.C   52.B  53.B   54.C   55.B

解析:

36.解析：前面說，你在前線，你不是戰(zhàn)士，所以后面的意思應(yīng)該是“甚至沒有槍”。

37.解析：本文是講戰(zhàn)地記者的，他們作報(bào)道應(yīng)該站在鏡頭前。crowd人群，house房子，battlefield戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)。

38.解析：對(duì)電視觀眾作介紹，用viewer。producer制片人，director導(dǎo)演，actor演員。

39.解析：后面講了28個(gè)記者和攝影師死在戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上，因此，戰(zhàn)地記者的工作是很危險(xiǎn)的。

40.解析：前面講戰(zhàn)地記者，因此這里說的是前南斯拉夫戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。

41.解析：injured受傷。根據(jù)句意，28個(gè)人犧牲，成百上千的人受傷。bury埋葬，defeat打敗，save解救。

42.解析：bring...to把……帶給。

43.解析：story故事，經(jīng)歷。在報(bào)紙上報(bào)道的事情的經(jīng)歷常用story表示。

44.解析：dream夢(mèng)想。從句意來看，成為外國記者是每個(gè)年輕記者的夢(mèng)想，而不是belief信仰，duty職責(zé)，faith信仰、約定。

45.解析：where引導(dǎo)表語從句，表示地點(diǎn)。那是你發(fā)現(xiàn)激動(dòng)人心的地方。

46.解析：even if即使，as if好像，even so即使這樣，ever since從那時(shí)到現(xiàn)在。“機(jī)會(huì)來了你要抓住它，即使是一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)”。

47.解析：后面講到子彈飛過耳邊，因此應(yīng)該是fear，害怕。surprise驚訝，shame害羞，sadness悲傷。

48.解析：past經(jīng)過。子彈飛過耳邊，fly past your ears。into表示飛進(jìn)，around表示繞著飛，through表示把耳朵打穿。

49.解析：前面講到有害怕的感覺，所以應(yīng)該“一會(huì)兒這種感覺走了（消失）”。return回來，continue繼續(xù)，occur發(fā)生。

50.解析：意思是“下一次戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)開始時(shí)，你還會(huì)在那里”。

51.解析：“我們沒有人相信自己會(huì)死。”

52.解析：wear穿、戴。本句意思是“他戴著一個(gè)護(hù)身符”。

53.解析：后面說every time，說明是想過，所以選many times。

54.解析：這是向上帝祈禱，所以用“保證”，promise。

55.解析：上帝不相信你的話，所以應(yīng)該是能聽到他笑。whisper低語，scream尖叫，cry哭泣。