Atabout10P.M.onSeptember7,2013,TommyBarberandhisfriendS...

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At about 10 P.M. on September 7, 2013, Tommy Barber and his friend Susan Laney were stepping out of the elevator of her apartment building when both of them  41  smoke. “My dogs!” Susan shouted with  42  as she ran down the hall to her apartment. Tommy, 54, who is  43 , walked toward the smoke.

“I was  44  across from Susan’s apartment door; I took four or five steps to the right, and smoke hit me right in the face,” he says. “I  45  the door, shouting, ‘Anybody home?’  46 nobody answered.”

Suddenly the door opened, and  47  smoke came out. Tommy heard coughing and reached behind the door, waving his arm until he  48  someone. It was Diane Marshall, who lived there. He grabbed her arm and pulled her into the hall, then ran back to the  49  apartment.

Then he and Susan picked up the fire extinguisher (滅火器). While Tommy held it, he  50  Susan to use it to fight the fire.  51 , the fire finally died down.

Diane had fallen asleep with a cooking pot on the stove (爐子), and it had  52  fire. She later called Tommy to  53  him. “I could have died,” she told a local news station.

As it turned out,  54  fires was second nature to Tommy — he had been a   55  with the St. Lucie County Fire District for about a year in the 1980s. He  56  a serious eye disease in 2000 and lost his sight.

Last November, the St. Lucie County Fire District awarded him and Susan the Citizen Hero Award for their  57  actions. When asked what he  58  at that time, Tommy said, “I wasn’t  59  at all. I just knew it was  60  I had to do.”

41. A. blew                     B. saw           C. smelled                     D. produced

42. A. anger                  B. surprise        C. fear                         D. joy

43. A. blind                    B. deaf              C. lost                          D. hurt

44. A. sitting                   B. standing        C. exercising                D. working

45. A. locked            B. opened              C. came into                D. knocked on

46. A. So                         B. But               C. Because                 D. Unless

47. A. no                        B. less               C. more                 D. other

48. A. left               B. felt              C. recognized                 D. remembered

49. A. middle-sized     B. well-decorated   C. old-fashioned      D. smoke-filled

50. A. taught                 B. allowed         C. forced            D. wanted

51. A. Sadly            B. Usually             C. Suddenly            D. Luckily

52. A. caught                B. attracted        C. prevented           D. used

53. A. invite            B. know                C. thank             D. support

54. A. making          B. feeding             C. fighting          D. lighting

55. A. doctor           B. survivor            C. doorkeeper          D. fireman

56. A. found           B. developed     C. treated            D. spread

57. A. free             B. brave            C. further           D. official

58. A. did              B. said              C. thought          D. had

59. A. interested           B. worried           C. excited          D. frightened

60. A. nothing         B. everything   C. anything         D. something 

【回答】

41-45  CCABD   46-50  BCBDA   51-55 DACCD  56-60 BBCDD

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