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July 6 1994 was a day of nightmare (噩梦) that I’ll never forget. That afternoon when I was making up my    41    in a dressing tent at the moment I suddenly heard someone run past shouting “Fire!” Fire was what we circus (马戏团) people most     42     for there was a large audience in the tent including many children. I rushed towards the tent with a water    43      but I could do nothing with it since the tent was burning too high and the flames spreading     44     .

In the burning tent was a     45    of panic: People rushed towards the exits and some even jumped twelve feet from the top rows of the grandstand to the ground     46    . Some people after    47     tried to reenter to help their relatives or friends. Yet it was     48     for them to get through the crowd instead they blocked the     49    . I fought at one exit shouting at the top of my voice “Go on! Keep    50     !” At every exit circus people were doing the same thing. In the midst (中间) of this scene the     51     kept on playing    52     the tent was on fire overhead.

City fire equipment finally arrived and    53     the fire. All the circus people were   _ 54   though some were injured or burned during the rescue    55    . The audience however were not that    56    . In a panic they all tried to use the regular    57     through which they had   _ 58     the tent. As a result 168 people had died in the     59    —the worst circus disaster in     60    .

41．A. face                  B. body                   C. dress                 D. story

42．A. defended            B. feared                 C. fought               D. destroyed

43．A. recorder            B. container              C. overcoat            D. camera

44．A. lately                B. tightly                 C. quickly             D. suddenly

45．A. sense                B. scene                  C. stage                 D. section

46．A. outside              B. outdoors              C. inside                D. indoors

47．A. coming out         B. taking out            C. going out           D. walking out

48．A. necessary           B. successful            C. natural              D. impossible

49．A. road                  B. lane                  C. way                D. street

50．A. moving              B. sitting                C. crying             D. standing

51．A. dancers             B. musicians            C. painters           D. firemen

52．A. when                B. unless                C. until               D. because

53．A. picked out         B. worked out          C. broke out          D. put out

54．A. safe                 B. busy                   C. tired               D. nervous

55．A. practice            B. preparation          C. work               D. performance

56．A. patient             B. lucky                 C. hopeless           D. pleased

57．A. entrances          B. exits                  C. gates               D. doors

58．A. left                 B. arrived                C. escaped           D. entered

59．A. fight                B. tent                   C. fire                 D. water

60．A. history             B. summer               C. season             D. movement

Answer 1

41-45 ABBCB     46-50 ACDCA     51-55 BADAC    56-60 BADCA