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专题04 完形填空
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(2022春·河北石家庄·高二校联考期末)As 17-year-old Torri’ell Norwood drove through St, Petersburg. Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly ____1____ screams. As they approached a crossroad, another car T-boned them, sending their black car sailing into the yard of a ____2____ home, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.
As smoke billowed from the other car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to ____3____. Get out!” she ____4____ out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to ____5____ themselves, she ran for her life.
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, A’zarria Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back to the wreck and found Simmons slumped (蜷缩) in the back seat. “She wasn’t ____6____.” Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and ____7____ her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and ____8____ her on the ground. “I checked her pulse.” Nothing. “I put my head against her chest.” No ____9____ of life. “That’s when I started CPR.”
Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. ____10____ on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had ____11____ little time to practice what she’d learned.
She started ____12____ Simmons’s chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth in the ____13____ of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No response And then, after the 30th compression, Simmons began coughing and ____14____ for air. The CPR had worked!
Soon, paramedics arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital, where she received stitches for a gash (伤口) in her forehead. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t ____15____,” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”
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