二、完形填空
In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders (滑翔伞运动员) were in Australia to prepare for the World Championship. They included Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paragliding champion. One morning, as the
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were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a terrible storm was coming. However, they decided to
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. After all, these were the best paragliders in the world.
Unluckily, as the competitors took off, the weather quickly became
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. Ewa tried to get away from the storm, but two huge
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came together and caught her.
The clouds pulled Ewa up inside the storm like a leaf in the
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. She flew higher and higher, with lightning and hailstones (冰雹) all around her. “I was
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,” she told reporters afterwards. “The last thing I
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, it was dark. I could hear thunder all around me.” She
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to about 10,000 metres high and then lost all her senses. At that height, the temperature was about -40°C.
After forty minutes, Ewa woke up. She was still inside the storm. It was dark and hailstones were
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past. They were as big as tennis balls! Finally, Ewa came out of the storm cloud and
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towards a small farm and landed
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. She fell to the ground, too
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to call for help. When her team
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her, she was 60 kilometres away from the place where she took off. She was covered in ice—but alive!
Ewa was sent to a(n)
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for treatment at once, but she still wanted to complete the World Championship next week. “Flying is too fantastic to stop
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an accident,” she said.
(
B
) 1. A. runners B. competitors C. pilots D. winners
(
D
) 2. A. get up B. turn on C. look up D. carry on
(
C
) 3. A. colder B. cooler C. worse D. wetter
(
B
) 4. A. storms B. clouds C. birds D. hands
(
A
) 5. A. wind B. rain C. tree D. world
(
A
) 6. A. shaking B. pulling C. dreaming D. smiling
(
D
) 7. A. decide B. repeat C. consider D. remember
(
D
) 8. A. guided B. drove C. returned D. rose
(
A
) 9. A. flying B. walking C. crying D. pushing
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C
)10. A. climbed B. jumped C. headed D. swam
(
B
)11. A. comfortably B. safely C. sadly D. secretly
(
C
)12. A. proud B. nervous C. weak D. brave
(
D
)13. A. served B. caught C. visited D. reached
(
A
)14. A. hospital B. school C. hotel D. office
(
C
)15. A. next to B. according to C. because of D. instead of
