五、完形填空
A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday 1 he saved the life of a girl in another country.
Dean Bluey was a schoolboy from Dallas, Texas, who has much 2 in computer. One day, he was 3 an email to a friend on the internet. Suddenly he 4 a message saying “Help! Pain! Help!” The 5 was from Finland, thousands of kilometres away from America.
“I didn’t know 6 I should do,” Dean said to a reporter afterwards. “It was really 7 to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did nothing at first. 8 the message kept coming.
“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble,” Dean explained. He 9 and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a 10. She was ill. What was 11, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch with 12 in America immediately. And they realised that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in 13. Then an ambulance rushed to the library. 14, she was still alive and was sent to the hospital quickly.
“I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe: 15 saved her life.”
()1. A. before
B. after
C. unless
D. until
()2. A. interest
B. degree
C. wonder
D. victory
()3. A. receiving
B. accepting
C. sending
D. offering
()4. A. received
B. offered
C. wrote
D. sent
()5. A. letter
B. message
C. call
D. note
()6. A. how
B. what
C. where
D. when
()7. A. difficult
B. interesting
C. funny
D. exciting
()8. A. So
B. And
C. But
D. As
()9. A. telephoned
B. replied
C. found
D. talked
()10. A. store
B. library
C. park
D. gym
()11. A. better
B. worse
C. harder
D. easier
()12. A. the police
B. the driver
C. the teacher
D. the friend
()13. A. America
B. England
C. Finland
D. Ireland
()14. A. Hardly
B. Happily
C. Luckily
D. Carefully
()15. A. boys
B. doctors
C. the police
D. emails
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