(吉林省实验中学2008届高三第三次模拟考试)

Three weeks ago, Paul David was given up for dead. Today the 24-year-old truck driver is on the road to getting   21  , thanks to quick,  22  first aid of six skilled college student nurses, who were traveling a few minutes   23  his truck and got to him   24  it crashed.

The student nurses were on the way back from a day of medical   25  at a hospital. When they saw the   26  , they jumped out of their car. They   27  that David was already dead, but they wouldn’t move on without seeing for   28  . With the help of three men they lifted him out. He was bleeding   29  and his heart almost stopped beating. He was obviously   30  .

One girl found an ice-cream  31  on the ground and made an airway down his throat. Another student held his tongue down. Then a third girl found a towel and   32  down with it on David’s neck to slow the bleeding. A fourth nurse brought a blanket and   33  David to warm him up. They kept his legs   34  .“We kept talking to him,” Miss Taylor said. “We   35  that the last thing you lose is your   36  .”

The student nurses kept David   37  until he could be gotten to hospital. There, he was brought out of   38  . A doctor said that David would have choked and bled to death without the   39  of the six student nurses. That is   40  he is alive today.

21．A．well                    B．worse                 C．buried                 D．away

2,4,6

22．A．physical              B．scientific             C．gentle                  D．exact

23．A．earlier                 B．later                    C．behind                 D．before

24．A．before long          B．long before          C．long after            D．soon after

25．A．training               B．team                   C．exercise              D．examination

26．A．driver                  B．accident              C．incident               D．car-racing

27．A．were told             B．discovered           C．checked              D．reminded

28．A．him                     B．them                   C．himself                D．themselves

29．A．hardly                 B．badly                   C．sadly                   D．slightly

30．A．died                    B．dead                    C．dying                  D．death

31．A．stick                   B．box                     C．paper                  D．packet

32．A．pulled                  B．took                    C．pressed               D．lay

33．A．covered               B．removed              C．dressed               D．offered

34．A．rising                  B．risen                   C．raising                 D．raised

35．A．found out            B．suggested            C．thought               D．learned

36．A．breathing             B．seeing                 C．hearing                D．smelling

37．A．talking                 B．bleeding               C．alive                    D．lively

38．A．control                B．danger                 C．car                     D．life

39．A．care                    B．cure                    C．talk                     D．study

40．A．because              B．why                    C．what                   D．where