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  A 9-year-old girl fell through the ice of a small pond while ice skating and her father plunged in trying to save her.

  A few miles away a12-year-old boy on an allterrain vehicle broke through another frozen pond. "Cody Lechler was pulled from the water and died at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee " officials said.

  "The bodies of the father and daughter Brian Obbink 44 and Megan were recovered later Friday by a law enforcement dive team Sheboygan County Sheriffs Sgt."，Doug Tuttle said.

  Megan had been skating on the footballfield size pond in Cedar Grove with her6-year-old sister Friday morning when the ice broke and Megan fell through. When their father tried to save her he also fell in Tuttle said. The younger sister ran to a nearby home for help and someone called911 but it was too late.

  "Rescuers chopped through the ice to search the pond by boat Friday afternoon”，Tuttle said. Snow was falling in the area and the temperature was 22 degrees.

The ice on the pond about40 miles north of Milwaukee was less than 3 inches thick.

Neighbor Bill Schreiber said he saw two people running to the pond one of them in shorts. "I've never seen people on the pond only guys training their hunting dogs out there " he said.

  "About10 miles northwest of Cedar Grove in the Town of Lyndon rescuers pulled a 12-year-old boy from a small pond after he drove a fourwheeler into the pond " Cascade Police Chief Cory Roeseler said.

  The boy had been hunting with an adult neighbor and drove out of the woods ahead of him. The neighbor spot the fourwheeler in the pond about25 feet from shore and called for help.

  Sheriff s Deputy Jim Opgenorth said the deaths were a reminder that people need to be careful around ice.

  "There is no such thing as safe ice " he said.

(   ) 1. We can infer from the passage that         .

   A. parents prefer to go skating with their children in winter

   B. it was very cold when the tragedy occured

   C. nobody would offer help when the younger sister ran for help

   D. people often goes hunting together with dogs and bicycles

(   ) 2. According to the passage which of the following statements is true?

   A. Two sisters and their father died on Friday after falling through the ice in Wisconsin.

   B. It was too late to save the12-year-old boy in hospital after he was pulled from the icy pond.

   C. The father and daughter came into themselves very soon after the falling.

   D. The younger sister called911 for help when she found her father fell in the ice. (   ) 3: While the12-year-old boy was hunting          .

   A. he was on a fourwheeler driven by a dog

   B. snow might be falling in the area

   C. his partner went ahead of him out of the woods

   D. he heard someone calling for help

(   ) 4. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

   A. The thicker ice is the safer it will be.

   B. Ice is more dangerous than anything else.

   C. It is usually not safe to travel on the ice.

   D. Ice is not the safest thing in the world.

Answer 1

1. B根据文章中ice、_Sn0W等信息可以推断出当时天气一定很冷。

2. B文章第2段提到男孩在地区医院抢救无效死亡。

3. B男孩在hunting时没带狗，排除A项；是an adult neighbor在他的前面，排除C项；不是他听到有人呼救，排除D项。

4. C该句子的意思是没有什么安全的冰，选C项。