[填空题]An explosion had thrown radioman Harley Olson out of bed. He worked wildly, trying to (36) an SOS. But the power was gone. Harley ran on deck. The crew was (37) into lifeboats. There was no room for him. He had no choice but to jump into the black water and start to swim. Suddenly, in the darkness, his fingers hit something hard. It was a life raft. Climbing (38) , Harley called out again and again. But no one answered. Soon his first feeling of (39) . left him. In one way he was lucky. The raft had enough food and water for 15 men for several weeks.
At daybreak, Harley saw some little boxes (40) by. He fished one out of the sea. Chewing gum. Quickly, he (41) in 20 small cartons. In the aftemoon, Harley (42) another raft he tied it to his own. Later, a third raft bobbed up. And then a mattress floated by him in the wreckage. Harley could hardly believe his eyes. Here was the start of a bed room. He tugged

[填空题]An explosion had thrown radioman Harley Olson out of bed. He worked wildly, trying to (36) an SOS. But the power was gone. Harley ran on deck. The crew was (37) into lifeboats. There was no room for him. He had no choice but to jump into the black water and start to swim. Suddenly, in the darkness, his fingers hit something hard. It was a life raft. Climbing (38) , Harley called out again and again. But no one answered. Soon his first feeling of (39) . left him. In one way he was lucky. The raft had enough food and water for 15 men for several weeks.
At daybreak, Harley saw some little boxes (40) by. He fished one out of the sea. Chewing gum. Quickly, he (41) in 20 small cartons. In the aftemoon, Harley (42) another raft he tied it to his own. Later, a third raft bobbed up. And then a mattress floated by him in the wreckage. Harley could hardly believe his eyes. Here was the start of a bed room. He tugged

[单项选择]A. The woman should have thrown out the newspapers herself.
B. The man knows where her paper is.
C. The woman’s paper may be in the trash.
D. The man does not have time to help her look for her paper.

[单项选择]The journalist who had set out to obtain these important facts （　） a long time to send them.
A. spent
B. took
C. passed
D. consumed

[单项选择] "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results," Calvin Coolidge once observed. As the U. S. economy crumbles, Coolidge’’s silly maxim might appear to be as apt as ever: the number of unemployment-insurance claims is rising, and overall joblessness is creeping upward. But in today’’s vast and complex labor market, things aren’’t always what they seem. Mae and more people are indeed losing their jobs but not necessarily because the economy appears to be in recession. And old-fashioned unemployment isn’’t the inevitable result of job loss. New work, at less pay, often is. Call it new-wave unemployment: structural changes in the economy are overlapping the business downturn, giving joblessness a grim new twist. Small wonder that the U. S. unemployment rate is rising. Now at 5.7 percent, it is widely expected to edge toward 7 percent by the end of next year. But statistics alone can’’t fully capture a complex reality. The unemployment rate has been held down
A. More and more people are applying for unemployment insurance.
B. Unemployment rate is not likely to rise quickly nowadays.
C. Losing jobs doesn’’t necessarily lead to unemployment.
D. Today’’s labor market is much too complicated than Coolidge’’s time.

[单项选择]

Mr. Andrews had been out of work for more than a year. This (36) father of four children had deeply known his (37) of family heartaches(伤心).
One day, he was (38) for a train in New York City. The train pulled into the station and stopped. He was getting ready to get on the train when something (39) happened. An old blind man, who had (40) the space between two carriages (车厢)for a door while (41) his way with a stick, wasn’ t able to be walking in a proper way, and suddenly fell (42) the train. Seeing this, Mr. Andrews quickly jumped down to the tracks and (43) the blind man to safety. He impressed(使铭记) all the people on the (44) with his courage. The news rapidly (45) all over the country. Messages began to pour in. Some people (46) sent money and food to him.
Mr. Andrews had been at the station (47) he was returning from a job talk. He probably would have been hired, but pub
A. help
B. ideas
C. reading
D. reports