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Electricity is such a part of our everyday life and so much taken for granted nowadays that we hardly think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the radio．At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and traffic to move freely ．Colourful street-lights have become part of the character of every modern city．In the home, many labour saving devices are powered by electricity． Even when we turn off the lamp and are fast asleep, electricity is still working for us, driving our ice-boxes, heating our water, or keeping our rooms warm in winter．Every day, trains and trolleybuses take people to and from work．We rarely stop to think why or how they run until something goes wrong．
In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with power station that supplies New York with electricity．For a great many hours, lift came almost to standstill（停止）．Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything ; lifts stopped working so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped（陷入）between two floors, you had the unpleaseant task（任务）of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs．Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as dark as the most distant back streets．
People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by in case of （以免）emergency（紧急情况）they were just as puzzled and helpless as anybody else．
At the same time, similar disorder happened in the home．New York can be very hot in summer and this year was no exception．Cool rooms became hot stoves．Food went bad in ice- boxes．Fish and meat remained uncooked in cooking pots, and people sat impatient and frightened in the dark as if an unseen enemy had landed from Mars（火星）, The only people who were not troubled by the darkness were the blind．Only one of the strangest things that took place was that some fifty blind people led many sighted workers home．When the lights came on again, hardly a person in the city can have turned on a switch without thinking how great a servant he bad at his finger-tips．
(1) In the first paragraph, the word“devices”means：
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A．electrical machines．
B．hand-tools that save man power．
C．inventions that make work easier．
D．ice-boxes and washing-machines only．
(2) According to what is said in this passage, electricity_______．
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A．has not made life easier．
B．is still something of a miracle（奇迹）
C．is something we think about all the time．
D．is something we have come to accept without questions．
(3) People were impatient and frightened, because ________
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A．the whole city was in complete darkness．
B．an unseen enemy had landed from Mars．
C．New York was very, very hot that summer．
D．blind people became more capable（能干的）than sighted workers．
(4) Some blind people led sighted workers home because _______
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A．blind people had better eyesight in darkness than sighted workers．
B．blind people were used to darkness and were not affected by the accident．
C．sighted workers were so frightened by the complete darkness that they lost their way．
D．the police had been ordered to stand by and could not take the workers home．
(5) The passage suggests that most large modern cities _______
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A．need more modern buildings．
B．are terrible places to live in．
C．would be better off without electricity．
D．completely depend on electricity．
The back door of the ambulance(救护车) was suddenly shut and the driver ran to the front, jumped into his seat, and started the engine. Inside were the 36 parents, Mr and Mrs Green, the mother holding their baby daughter Ally. The little girl had 37 food stuck in her throat and could hardly breathe.
The driver, Mr white, 38 his siren (报警器) and flashing light, and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting against _39 _. The cars ahead of him pulled out of the way as he drove through the 40. From the back of the 41 the parents were shouting at him to 42 , since Ally had almost stopped 43 . In front of him he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr White knew that he had no time to 44 , so he drove straight past the traffic lights, looking 45 his left and right as he did so.
Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows 46 , since the car was air-conditioned, and he was playing his radio. He did not 47 the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight 48 into the path of the ambulance.
Mr White tried to stop his ambulance but it was too late. It hit the taxi. Everybody was shaken but no one was hurt. Mr White looked to see 49 little Ally was. He was astonished to see relief (宽慰) instead of 50 on the faces of the parents.
“Look!” cried Mrs Green. “She is 51 again.”
“It must have been the 52 .” said her husband. “It 53 the food out of her throat.” The baby’s color was turning to normal, and she was crying in a loud but healthy 54 .
They were all joyful, and quite forgot about the accident, the taxi, and the lines of 55 all around them.
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