三、短文填空(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读短文,从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其适当形式填空,使短文通顺、意义完整。每空仅填一词,每词仅用一次。

There is a brave and clever girl. She saved about one hundred other tourists from the Asian tsunami because she had warned them a huge ocean wave was on 36 way across the sea. She knew 37 was happening because she learned about underwater earthquakes at school only a few weeks 38, a newspaper reported.
"I was 39 the beach and the water started to go funny," Tilly Smith told the 40 from the newspaper. "There were bubbles and the water went back 41. I knew there was going to be a tsunami. I soon told Mum about this," she said. Tilly's mother and the hotel workers 42 quickly. They told people to 43 away from the beach before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.
Tilly's teacher was very proud of her. "She's a very 44 girl ... It is very lucky that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two 45 before Christmas," he told the newspaper.
36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41.
42. 43. 44.
45.

36. its
37. what
38. earlier
39. on
40. reporter
41. suddenly
42. acted
43. run
44. clever
45. weeks

36. 固定短语on one's way表示“在途中”，此处指代wave，用it的形容词性物主代词its。
37. 该空引导宾语从句，what表示“什么”，符合“知道正在发生什么”的语境。
38. a few weeks earlier是固定表达，意为“几周前”，此处用early的比较级earlier。
39. on the beach是固定搭配，意为“在沙滩上”。
40. 根据from the newspaper可知是告知记者，report的名词形式reporter表示“记者”。
41. 此处需要副词修饰动词went，sudden的副词形式suddenly表示“突然地”。
42. 结合语境是“迅速行动”，act的过去式acted，符合一般过去时的时态要求。
43. run away是固定短语，意为“逃离”，tell sb. to do sth.后接动词原形run。
44. 此处需要形容词修饰girl，clever表示“聪明的”，符合对女孩的评价。
45. two后接可数名词复数，week的复数形式weeks表示“周”。