完形填空。
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
8 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. simply ( ) 2. A. crowd ( ) 3. A. producers ( ) 4. A. dangerous ( ) 5. A. stay ( ) 6. A. injured ( ) 7. A. bring ( ) 8. A. scenes ( ) 9. A. belief ( )10. A. why ( )11. A. even so ( )12. A. fear ( )13. A. into ( )14. A. returns ( )15. A. there ( )16. A. leave ( )17. A. hangs ( )18. A. never ( )19. A. consider ( )20. A. whispering |
B. really B. house B. viewers B. exciting B. fight B. buried B. show B. passages B. dream B. what B. ever since B. surprise B. around B. goes B. away B. escape B. wears B. many times B. accept B. laughing |
C. merely C. battlefield C. directors C. normal C. war C. defeated C. take C. stories C. duty C. how C. as if C. shame C. past C. continues C. out C. die C. holds C. some time C. promise C. screaming |
D. even D. camera D. actors D. disappointing D. life D. saved D. make D. contents D. faith D. where D. even if D. sadness D. through D. occurs D. home D. remain D. carries D. seldom D. guess D. crying |