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完形填空（每小题1.5分，共20小题）

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  1  carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a  2 and you’re telling the TV 3  what is happening.

It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very 4  . In the first two years of the  5  in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6  .

What kind of people put themselves in danger to  7  pictures to our TV screens and  48  to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

“I think it’s every young journalist’s 9  to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s  10  you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it  11  it is a war.”

But there are moments of  12 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets（子弹）are flying  13  your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling  14 after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be  15  .”

“None of us believes that we’re going to  16  ” adds Michael. But he always 17 a lucky charm（护身符）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, 18  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I  19  I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God  20  , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

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

 

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

 

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

 

4.                A．depressing      B．disappointing    C．dangerous D．endangered

 

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

 

6.                A．buried         B．defeated        C．wounded D．beaten

 

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

 

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

 

9.                A．faith           B．nightmare       C．dream    D．duty

 

10.               A．how           B．where         C．why  D．because

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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