One night last February, a seventeen-year-old Duffy drove home along a winding r

  One nightlast February, a seventeen-year-old Duffy drove home along a winding road, hesaw a strange light thrown against the tree. “I knew it wasn’t the moon”, hesaid. “I drive this road all the time and I notice little things out of place.”

    Duffy stopped his car and got out to examine. Below him far down in the deepvalley lay a broken car with its headlights on. Thirty minutes earlier, a manhad driven off the edge of the road, which has no guardrail. His car fell androlled end over end, landing on its top more than two hundred feet below.

    Duffy rushed to call for help, then returned and got down to reach the injureddriver. Snow covered the valley and the temperature was below freezing. Afterstruggling back up the cliff, Duffy took off his jacket and shirt and wrappedthe injured man in time, along with the blankets from his car.

     Life-saving deeds are starting to become usual action for Duffy, the oldest ofseven children. When he was 12, he saved his ten-year-old brother fromdrowning. Two years ago, his three-year-old sister ate rat poison, and Duffycleaned out her mouth, make her drink milk to protect her stomach and calleddoctors.

    “We have tried to teach the children good values, and it looks like we have gotsome reward for it.” His father says.

1..The strange lightcame from ________.

A. The bright moon.           B.Duffy’s car.

C. The broken car in the valley   D. anunknown place

2..The phrase”landing on its top” means the car lay_________.

A. on the top of the cliff    B. with itswheels upward 

C. with its head upward    D. on the roadas usual

3.. Duffy wrappedthe man because_________.

A. he was badly injured    B. he had losttoo much blood  

C. he had nothing on      D. itwas too cold that day

4.. From the above article, we can see Duffy has saved________ at least.   A. two     B.three     C. four      D. five

试题答案

【答案】

1..C

2..B

3..D

4..B

【解析】 略