You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people
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You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t 36 carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a 37 and you’re telling the TV 38 what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very 39 .In the first two years of the 40 in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫）,28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were 41 .What kind of people put themselves in danger to 42 pictures to our TV screens and 43 to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s 44 to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s 45 you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes ,you take it 46 it is a war.”
But there are moments of 47 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets （子弹）are flying 48 your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling 49 after a while and when the next war starts , you’ll be
50 .”
“None of us believes that we’re going to 51 ,” adds Michael .But he always 52 a lucky charm（护身符）with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war .It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, 53 ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I 54 I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God 55 ,because you know he doesn’t believe you .”
36．A．simply | B．really | C．merely | D．even |
37．A．crowd | B．house | C．battlefield | D．camera |
38．A．producers | B．viewers | C．directors | D．actors |
39．A．dangerous | B．exciting | C．normal | D．disappointing |
40．A．stay | B．fight | C．war | D．life |
41．A．injured | B．buried | C．defeated | D．saved |
42．A．bring | B．show | C．take | D．make |
43．A．scenes | B．passages | C．stories | D．contents |
44．A．belief | B．dream | C．duty | D．faith |
45．A．why | B．what | C．how | D．where |
46．A．even so | B．ever since | C．as if | D．even if |
47．A．fear | B．surprise | C．shame | D．sadness |
48．A．into | B．around | C．past | D．through |
49．A．returns | B．goes | C．continues | D．occurs |
50．A．there | B．away | C．out | D．home |
51．A．leave | B．escape | C．die | D．remain |
52．A．hangs | B．wears | C．holds | D．carries |
53．A．never | B．many times | C．some time | D．seldom |
54．A．consider | B．accept | C．promise | D．guess |
55．A．whispering | B．laughing | C．screaming | D．crying |
试题答案
36.D
解析：文章在第一段先列举了一些事实，讲述记者所经历的一切工作。ever意思为“甚至”。而simply的意思为“简单的”；really为“真正的”；merely为“仅仅”。根据句子的意思：你甚至也不用带枪。
37.D
解析： 从后面的意思可以看出：站在摄像机前在报道，让电视机前的人们能够了解正在发生的事情。
38.B
解析： TV viewer意思为“看电视的人”。而producer为“制造者”；director为“导演”；actor为“演员”，均与文章的意思不符。
39.A
解析：因为后面主要的讲述了在前南斯拉夫的战争，所以可以知道在那里的工作是很危险的。
40.C
解析：见第39题的分析。
41.A
解析： 在前面有killed一词，我们就可以判断出是injured，这样就是对等的。bury的意思为“埋葬”；defeat为“打败”；save为“挽救”；均不能够与文章的意思一致。
42.A
解析： 短语bring pictures to our TV screens意思为“给我们的电视带来一些图片”。也就是为我们拍摄一些图片。
43.C
解析： 电视上主要为图片，而在报纸上的大多数为故事。而scene为“场景”；passage指的是“文章的一段”；content为“内容”。
44.B
解析：这是年轻记者的梦想。
45.D
解析：这是能够找到快乐的地方，where引导表语从句。
46.D
解析：even if意思为“即使”，引导让步状语从句。此句的意思为“即使它是一场战争，当第一次机会来临的时候，你也要接受”。
47.A
解析：从这段起主要的谈论一些危险的，令人害怕的时刻。从后面所描述的场景可以看出。
48.C
解析：子弹从耳朵旁边经过。
49.B
解析：但是这种感觉很快就会过去了，当第二次战争要开始的时候，你又会到达那里的。
50.A
解析：见第49题的分析。
51.C
解析：由于从下文中的意思“带护身符”等，可以知道：没有人相信我们要死去的。
52.D
解析：短语carry with意思为“随身携带着”。
53.B
解析：从后面的every time，可以看出正确答案为many times，意思为“许多次”。
54.C
解析：promise为“答应”的意思。
55.B
解析：选择laughing表示“上帝也会发笑的”，因为你知道上帝也不会相信你的话，你将继续你的战地记者的工作。这是文章一个很幽默的地方。whisper为“低声说”；scream为“发出尖叫声”。