On a foggy Sunday morning, Amrisha Vaish was sleeping soundly at home in Arlington, Virginia. The sound that woke him at 7:15 was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to ___1___ carefully, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree ___2___ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped by smoke around the tree’s base, and its engine was on fire.
Seeing that, he immediately grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the ___3___ looked worse. The car was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if ___4___ there. He thought that no one could have survived this crash, and yet there was 15-year-old Quintin Thompson, still ___5___ with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Vaish tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water yet with no success. When the ___6___ got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.
Instantly, Vaish tried to open the back door, but he failed. He picked up a stone beside the tree and hit the back door. This time, it ___7___. The back door was opened and Vaish crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Vaish noticed how ___8___ his legs were. Using a pocketknife, Vaish sawed through Thompson’s seat belt. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Vaish pulled him out of a window, and then dragged him to safety before the car was ___9___ surrounded by flames. Vaish called an ambulance as Thompson suffered severely. Soon, the doctors arrived and Vaish felt ____10____.
1. A. analyse B. view C. examine D. question
2. A. enveloped B. choked C. marked D. rescued
3. A. wound B. damage C. engine D. smoke
4. A. drawn B. guarded C. sent D. planted
5. A. calm B. curious C. conscious D. confident
6. A. water B. driver C. passengers D. flames
7. A. responded B. changed C. worked D. failed
8. A. dirty B. bad C. unique D. normal
9. A. slowly B. entirely C. simply D. deadly
10. A. relieved B. touched C. recognized D. satisfied
【答案】1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. A