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专题10-日常生活故事主题(二)
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Passage 1
(2023·全国·高三专题练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Henry Tyler made the catch of the year on the weekend. When he saw a young child hanging from a sixth-floor apartment balcony (阳台), Henry ran one hundred metres, jumped over a 1.2-metre fence, and held out his arms to catch the ___1___ (fall) child.
Eric Brown, only three years old, knocked Henry down when he fell. The boy is in the hospital and doctors say he'll be OK.
___2___ Brown family live in an apartment building outside Toronto. On the day of the accident, Mrs. Brown was at work and Eric was at home with his father. They both fell ___3___ (sleep) while watching TV.
Eric woke up a little later when he heard children playing outside. He pushed a chair onto the balcony, and climbed up ___4___ (see) them. When he looked down, he ___5___ (accidental ) slipped and fell over the edge. He hung on for a few minutes ___6___ screamed for his father, but his father didn't hear him.
Henry ___7___ (fix) his car when he heard the screams. He looked up and saw Eric hanging from the balcony. He quickly ___8___ (throw) his tools aside, and started running, arms out.
He saved my ___9___ (son) life," said Mrs. Brown. "I don't know ___10___ to thank him.”
"I just didn't want the boy to be hurt," said Henry.
Passage 2
(2022·安徽淮南·统考一模)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Wearing wristbands with the names of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant ____11____ (write) on them, 17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla plays her favorite sport — basketball — at Nagqu No 2 Senior High School in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. For her, ____12____ (study) in Lhasa, the region’s most developed city, has made it much ____13____ (easy) for her to realize her basketball dream.
With ____14____ average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet. ____15____ have long compromised the health of Nagqu students are low-oxygen environment and extreme weather. “The students had barely pl