王伟storm_【英语】宁夏银川九中2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试

C. In America, children believe the eggs are hidden by the Easter bunny

D. In America, the hidden eggs are supposed to have fallen from church bells

B

Jack Buzzi looked out the window during the worst of the storm. He saw something horrifying(吓人的): his neighbor’s house was floating by on floods. Part of the top floor had broken off, and the rest of the house was in a mess. At the same time, Buzzi was on the phone with his friend Jack Ward, whose sister Kathey Ward, 60, owned the house. The men feared that Kathey was in danger.

Buzzi hung up the phone, threw on boots and a raincoat, and took a flashlight and two life jackets. During a pause of the storm, Buzzi mad his way through knee-high water toward what remained of Kathey’s house. He tried to yell to Kathey over the howling wind, but she didn’t respond. “The roof had fallen apart,” Buzzi said.“I thought she was dead.”

He made his way back home and called Jack again. Jack told him he had finally reached his sister on the phone. She was trapped but uninjured. Buzzi headed back into the storm and found her standing on a piece of wooden board that had been part of a doorway on the second floor of her home. “She was surprisingly calm,” says Buzzi.

“I knew you would come,” Kathey said. She’d been sitting in the only room of the house that didn’t get broken apart when the roof fell. Buzzi gave her a life jacket and escorted(护送) her through the falling water around his house.

The next morning, Buzzi and Kethey used a kayak(皮艇) to rescue Kathey’s sister Mary Ward and Mary’s boyfriend, Dave O’Hara, who’d been trapped in the top floor of Mary’s flooded house.

“It’s human nature, right?” he says. “We protect each other.”

24. Why did Jack Buzzi think Kathey was dead in the storm?

A. Because her house was floating on floods.

B. Because Jack Ward couldn’t reac h her on the phone.

C. Because the top floor of her house had fallen apart.

D. Because the doorway on the second floor had broken off.

25. What does the underlined word “reached” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A. Get to.

B. Find out.

C. Touch with hand.

D. Get through to.

26. Which can explain “human nature”best according to the passage?

A. Staying calm when faced with danger.

B. Taking care of each other in time of danger.

C. Getting well hidden in time of danger.

D. Getting well prepared for coming danger.

C

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