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　　Two men on a touring holiday were injured by an explosion in their motor van（面包车）yesterday.

　　Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were ____1____ by a loud bang, and seconds later the two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to give ____2____ and helped to put out the fire ____3____ the van. A light American truck changed the ____4____ to provide living accomodation room, ____5____ firemen arrived.

　　The men, Mr. Gary House, who was driving, and his ____6____ Mr. Charles Lynn——were taken to hospital with slight ____7____. They were allowed to leave after ____8____. “I heard this explosion. It was ____9____ loud. I thought it could have been ____10____,”said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street. “I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and ____11____ on the ground. Then another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a ____12____ state——parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees.”

　　“I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher（灭火器）, but ___13___ the time I got outside someone from the bank was in the ____14____ with an extinguisher.”

　　Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market's office to wait for a(n) ____15____.“The second man ____16____ going back into the van to see if everything was ____17____, and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was burning,” he added._____18_____ inside the van was mainly superficial（表在的）, ____19____ a plastic window was blown out.

　　The two men have spent the last five months ____20____ At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in the city.

It was 3 am when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling of flames(火焰的噼啪声) somewhere below there was not a    1    in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.

With his father away on night    2   at a factory, Glenn was    3    about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, and his brother Todd. He ran    4   through the smoke-filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd    5    they sat up. Then they helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden.

The nine-year-old raced    6    into the house and upstairs to his mother's room. He found it    7    to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer was unconscious（昏迷不醒的）, and there was    8    to help Glenn carry her to the garden. "But the boy remained    9    and," as a fireman said later, "acted with all the self-control of a trained adult."

On the bedroom telephone, luckily still    10   , Glenn called his father and,    11    Mr. Kreamer to call the fire brigade, got on with the task of    12    his mother.

First he    13    a bucket（桶） with water from the bathroom and    14   water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth    15   his head he went back to the garden.

He could    16    the fire engine coming, but    17    would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house    18    flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?

Grasping a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and running upstairs to his mother's room. Tying one end of the string（绳子）    19    her hand he ran back, laying out the string    20     he went through the hall and back out into the garden. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.

1. A. person B. sound C. thing D. light

2. A. duty B. business C. strike D. manager

3. A. sorry B. worried C. excited D. happy

4. A. outside B. inside C. downstairs D. from

5. A. because B. until C. before D. while

6. A. away B. there C. home D. back

7. A necessary B. important C. easy D. impossible

8. A. nobody B. somebody C. anybody D. everybody

9. A. worried B. calm C. clever D. dangerous

10. A. sleeping B. burning C. working D. ringing

11. A. doing B. making C. letting D. leaving

12. A. carrying B. pulling C. saving D. asking

13. A. found B. filled C. made D. borrowed

14. A. put B. did C. threw D. placed

15. A. in B. from C. above D. around

16. A. watch B. hear C. see D. listen

17. A. when B. why C. how D. what

18. A. there B. here C. where D. which

19. A. in B. up C. behind D. to

20. A. as B. so C. though D. after