Ⅵ. A) Read the passage and choose the best answers. 阅读短文,选择最佳答案。
On 26 December 2004, Tilly Smith, a 10-year-old English schoolgirl 1 that a tsunami, a huge ocean wave, was on its way across the sea. 2, the schoolgirl was able to save over 100 lives. She knew what would happen, because she learned about underwater earthquakes at school only two weeks earlier, a newspaper reported.
"3 I was walking along the beach with my family, I noticed something strange," Tilly Smith told the reporter from the newspaper. "Thick white froth formed on top of the waves, and the waves came in instead of going out suddenly. I knew there was going to be a 4. I told my family about it," she said.
Tilly's family and the hotel security guards acted quickly. They cleared people from the beach just minutes before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one on the beach died that day.
The reporter also 5 Tilly's geography teacher. The teacher was very proud of her. "Tilly is a very clever girl. It is very 6 that our class learned about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas. Knowledge learned at school can be very powerful and can even save lives in real life," he told the newspaper reporter.
() 1. A. expected
B. warned
C. refused
() 2. A. Bit by bit
B. What's more
C. As a result
() 3. A. Although
B. While
C. Since
() 4. A. tsunami
B. rainstorm
C. typhoon
() 5. A. interviewed
B. rescued
C. forgave
() 6. A. usual
B. unlucky
C. lucky
B) Read again and answer the questions. 再读,回答问题。
7. How did Tilly Smith know that a tsunami was coming?

8. What can we learn from Tilly's story?

1-6 BCBAAC
7. Thick white froth formed on top of the waves and the waves came in instead of going out suddenly. She knew what would happen because she learned about underwater earthquakes at school just two weeks before Christmas.
8. Knowledge learned at school can be very powerful and can even save lives in real life. (One possible version)