It was getting dark. Some children and two Canadian women were still   1  on the ice near a big hotel. They were having a good time.

Suddenly the ice   2 . One of the boys fell into the water. The children shouted，“Help! Help!”They didn’t know   3  to do. The two Canadian women heard   4  and skated over to get the boy out of the water.

The ice was   5. The two Canadians fell into the water, too. But they tried their best to

 6  the little boy. They knew they must be  7 . If they didn’t push him up onto the ice, he would soon die.

Many people ran over to   8  them. Some of them had ropes and poles. A young man jumped into the water to save the   9  people.

The boy and the two Canadian women were out of water at last. One of the women didn’t feel well. She was sent to the   10  at once. But she felt very happy because the boy was saved.

Joan worked in a hospital as a nurse. One evening there was a big dance at the hospital. Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but of course somebody had to be left to look after the sick children, and Joan was not of the lucky ones. She liked dancing very much, so when she had to start work that evening while her friends were getting ready to go to the dance, she felt very sorry for herself.
She went to each sick child one after another and said good-night, until she came to one little boy, Nick. He was eleven years old, but he was already able to talk like an adult. Poor Nick was badly ill, and now he was not able to move any part of his body except his hands. Joan knew he would never get any better, but he was always happy and always thinking about other people instead of about himself.
Nick knew that Joan loved dancing, so now when she came to say good-night to him, he greeted her with the words, “I’m very sorry that you have to miss the dance because of us. But we are going to have a party for you. If you look in my drawer, you’ll find a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it’s quite fresh. And there is also a dollar there, you can buy something to drink with that. And I’d get up and dance with you myself if I was able to.”
Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all important to Joan.
【小题1】Joan felt unlucky that evening mainly because______.

One afternoon ,Mrs Stone decided to visit her friend Mrs King . Mrs king lived in a nice house with a large garden far from the city center .Mrs Stone took her dog with her . While the women were having coffee outside the house , the dog was running around in the garden . The two friends were very unpleasantly surprised when the dog appeared after some time with a dead rabbit in his mouth. Mrs King began to feel sick because she knew that her neighbor kept rabbits in a hutch (兔窝 ) in his garden . As the dog and the rabbit were both covered with earth and dirt , the women took the rabbit and carefully cleaned it in the bathroom .When it got dark ,they went quietly through the trees into the neighbor’s garden and put the dead rabbit into the hutch .

The next afternoon .Mr king’s neighbor , the one with the rabbit ,found her in the garden called her over . She walked towards the neighbor and she felt very afraid because she knew that she did something wrong “You know what ? ”her neighbor said , “ Yesterday morning I found one of my rabbits dead in the hutch . So I put it in the ground in the garden and this morning ,”he started to whisper( 耳语 ), “It’s back to the hutch ! I’m going to take it to a right pet cemetery （ 墓地）      

1 . Who was the owner of the dog ?

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2 .Why were Mrs Stone and Mrs King very unpleasantly surprised ?

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3 .Where did Mrs Stone and Mrs King put the dead rabbit ?

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4.The rabbit wasn’t bitten to death by the dog , was it ?

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5.How would Mrs King’s neighbor deal with the rabbit ?

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It was almost 9:00 pm when Mia Janson left her office to go home. It was   16  . She started her car and   17  down the dark road that led to her house in the country.
She   18  the radio and listened to songs while she was driving. The heater wasn’t working, and singing helped to keep her    19 .
The snow was heavy. Then Mia went across a small    20 . The bridge was covered with ice and the car went out of control. Mia hit her head on the steering wheel and lost consciousness(知觉).
When she woke up, her head was bleeding (流血)，and she was shaking from the cold. She didn’t know   21  she was. Mia opened the car door and looked around. She was under the bridge, and her car was sitting on the frozen river! She felt very sad. She   22  the ice wouldn’t hold her car for very long. She tried to walk up several times, but she kept falling into the snow. Mia tried   23  time. She fell again, but this time she couldn’t get up. She knew that                      24    could see her car under the bridge. She was lying in the snow, and she couldn’t move. Mia closed her eyes and waited to die.
Then she heard a voice. Mia   25  her eyes. There was an old man standing over her. She stood up and walked up with the help of the old man. “That’s my truck”, said the old man. “Get in and I’ll take you home.”