Question

You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t ___36___ carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a ___37___ and you’re telling the TV ___38___ what is happening.

It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very ___39___. In the first two years of the ___40___ in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were ___41___. What kind of people put themselves in danger to ___42___ pictures to our TV screens and ___43___ to our newspapers? Why do they do it?

“I think it’s every young journalist’s ___44___ to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s ___45___ you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it ___46___ it is a war.”

But there are moments of ___47___. Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullet(子彈) are flying ___48___ your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling ___49___ after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be ___50___.”

“None of us believes that we’re going to ___51___,” adds Michael. But he always ___52___ a lucky charm(護身符) with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, ___53___, and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I ___54___ I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God ___55___, because you know he doesn’t believe you.”

36. A. simply  B. really  C. merely       D. even

37. A. crowd  B. house  C. battlefield   D. camera

38. A. producers    B. viewers      C. directors     D. actors

39. A. dangerous    B. exciting      C. normal       D. disappointing

40. A. stay      B. fight   C. war     D. life

41. A. injured B. buried C. defeated     D. saved

42. A. bring    B. show   C. take    D. make

43. A. scenes  B. passages     C. stories D. contents

44. A. belief   B. dream C. duty    D. faith

45. A. why     B. what   C. how    D. where

46. A. even so B. ever since   C. as if    D. even if

47. A. fear      B. surprise      C. shame D. sadness

48. A. into      B. around       C. past    D. through

49. A. returns B. goes    C. continues    D. occurs

50. A. there    B. away   C. out     D. home

51. A. leave    B. escape C. die      D. remain

52. A. hangs   B. wears  C. holds  D. carries

53. A. never   B. many times C. some time  D. seldom

54. A. consider      B. accept C. promise      D. guess

55. A. whispering   B. laughing     C. screaming   D. crying

Answer 1

36---55     DDBAC   AACBD   DACBA   CDBCB           

解析:

本文講述了戰地記者在戰場上所遇到的各種艱難和危險并且描述了他們的思想斗爭的情況。

36. D。上句話說，“你”不是士兵，接下來說的是“你”甚至(even)沒有槍，因為“你”是戰地記者。

37. D。通讀全文(尤其是第2段第1句話)可知，“你”是戰地記者(a war reporter)，那“你”當然地站在 camera 前了。

38. B。既然是戰地記者站在攝像機前，那當然是給電視觀眾(TV viewers)作報道了。

39. A。根據第1段中說的around you shells are exploding以及第2段中說的…reporters and photographers were killed 可知，只有選項A最合適。另外，比較四個選項，再結合常識，也可選出答案A。

40. C。根據常識和后面的 28 reporters and photographers were killed 可知答案選C。

41. A。根據文章意思和常識，戰地記者死了28人，那么還有數百人應該是 injured。

42. A。比較：bring 帶來；show 出示，拿給……看；take 帶去，拿到；make 制造。結合后面的 pictures to our TV screens，只有bring 最佳。

43. C。前面說給電視帶來pictures，那么與之相對照，給報紙帶來的應該是stories。

44. B。根據下文可知，成為一名駐外記者是年輕記者的夢想。

45. D。where引導地點狀語從句，其意為“……的地方”。

46. D。前文說當駐外記者是每個年輕記者的夢想，所以當實現夢想的機會出現的時候，他們就一定會抓住，即使(even if)是戰爭也不畏懼。

47. A。根據下文中的…and bullet(子彈) are flying past your ears…What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again 可知，記者們也有“害怕”的時候。

48. C。子彈從耳邊飛過，用past，即指從耳朵旁邊飛過。注意不能用through，因為它是指“穿過”“穿透”。

49. B。句中的but使句意發生轉折，前面說有時也有害怕的時候，后面經but轉折后，應該這種感覺一會兒就過去了。(答此題時要注意圍繞“當駐外記者是每個年輕記者的夢想”這一主題。)

50. A。此處指的是害怕的感覺過去后，當下一場戰爭爆發的時候，你又會出現在那里。(答此題時也要注意圍繞“當駐外記者是每個年輕記者的夢想”這一主題。)

51. C。由下文可知，他們隨身帶著護身符，所以他們不相信他們會死。

52. D。比較：hang 懸掛；wear 穿，戴；hold 握住，拿住；carry 帶，攜帶。因其后的賓語是 a lucky charm(護身符)，顯然只有 carry 最合適。

53. B。比較四個選項，再結合空格后的every time，選B最佳。

54. C。向上帝祈求，當然是說“我保證”或“我發誓”，故選C最佳。

55. B。由于戰地記者們在“退出”這個問題上總是說話不算數，所以當上帝再次聽到他們保證的時候，上帝便會“發笑”了。