Question

   A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country.

  Dean Bluey from Dallas,Texas,was a school boy who has much 1      in computer. One day,he 2      an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying “ Help!Pain!Help ” The message was from Finland,3      kilometers away from

America.

“ I didn’t know 4      I should do, ” Dean said to a reporter afterwards. “ It was really difficult to tell if the message was real. ” So Dean did nothing at first. 5      the message kept coming.

“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble,” Dean explained. He 6      and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja,who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was 7     ,there was no phone around her. Her only way of

communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch 8      the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library. 9       ，she was still alive and was sent to the  hospital quickly. “I’m glad she’s OK，” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe that 10      saved her life. ”

(   ) 1. A. interest    B. interests

C. interesting    D. interested

(   ) 2. A. sent    B. sends

C. was sending    D. is sending

(   ) 3. A. thousand    B. thousand of

C. thousands    D. thousands of

(   ) 4. A. how    B. what

C. where    D. when

(   ) 5. A. So    B. And

C. But    D. As

(   ) 6. A. telephoned    B. replied

C. found    D. talked

(   ) 7. A. better     B. worse

C. harder    D. easier

(   ) 8. A. with    B. on

C. to    D. at

(   ) 9. A. Hardly    B. Happily

C. Luckily    D. Carefully

(   ) 10. A. a boy    B. doctors

C. the police    D. an email

Answer 1

 l.A Dean是一个对电脑有着浓厚兴趣的男孩。

2. C 一天，当他正在网上发送邮件的时候，突然收到了一个求助信息。

3. D这封邮件来自距美国几千千米以外的芬兰。

4. B看到这邮件，Dean不知该做什么(what).

5. C在不能判断这封邮件真假的情况下，他什么也没做，但是（But)邮件一直在发。

6. B这时候，Dean意识到的确是有人遇到了麻烦，

于是他回复邮件，发现是一个独自在一个图书馆的女孩，她生病了。

7. B wiiat was worse“更糟糕的是”。更糟糕的是， 她的周围没有电话。

8. A get in touch with“与......联系”。  

9. C 幸运的是，当救护车赶到时，这个女孩还活着,并被立刻送往医院。

10. D 之后，Dean很高兴，但是也很难相信是一封邮件救了那个女孩的命。