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(2023·浙江5月联考)It was a dream born in fire. Andrea Peterson was 5 when she and her mother were trapped in a burning building.
“Throw the kid down!” said the firemen __1__. Little Andrea jumped into lifesaving arms and also a lifelong __2__: She wanted to fight fires like her rescuers did.
She told that to the firemen but they just __3__ good-naturally like grown-ups often do when kids talk about their big __4__. You know, it was back in a time when girls weren't even allowed to __5__ such grand goals.
“You'll be a good mommy,” the firemen told her. “You'll be a good teacher, maybe you'll be a nurse, but you can never be a(n) __6__.”
As it often happened, reality __7__ her dream. She was sent to a flight school, where she __8__ her husband, Dennis, who was later diagnosed with cancer. Peterson spent 31 years __9__ him. In 2007, when Dennis was coming to the end of his struggle, he was at peace __10__ worried for Peterson: “But what are you going to do?”
“I'll be fine,” she told him.
At 61, Peterson went on an ambulance ride-along. She felt that long-ago childhood __11__. She earned her emergency medical technician __12__ and responded to fire calls with the ambulance. Her years of tending to Dennis had __13__ her for dealing with various hurts and ills.
After a year, she told her boss she wanted to be a firefighter.
In the firefighter training unit, everyone else was between 18 and 21, but it didn't __14__ Peterson. She passed the written test, cleared the physical and, __15__, that little girl's dream came true.
语篇解读:本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章主要讲述安德里亚·彼得森从小就立志要做一名消防员,但是在她那个年代,女孩子成为消防员还是一件无法想象的事。不过,安德里亚并没有就此放弃,在她62岁的时候仍然努力实现了这个梦想。
1.A.above B.beside
C.around D.below
解析:选D 根据上文“Throw the kid down!”可知,消防员在他们下面(below)。
2.A.expectation B.ambition
C.destination D.inspiration
解析:选B 此处表示,这是她的抱负(ambition):她想像救援人员一样去灭火。
3.A.laughed B.supported
C.criticized D.neglected
解析:选A 她把这件事告诉了消防员,但他们只是善意地笑(laughed),就像成年人在孩子们谈论他们的远大梦想时经常做的那样。
4.A.attempts B.purpos