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 es, 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 bullet(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. crying36---55 DDBAC AACBD DACBA CDBCB
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本文讲述了战地记者在战场上所遇到的各种艰难和危险并且描述了他们的思想斗争的情况。
36. D。上句话说，“你”不是士兵，接下来说的是“你”甚至(even)没有枪，因为“你”是战地记者。
37. D。通读全文(尤其是第2段第1句话)可知，“你”是战地记者(a war reporter)，那“你”当然地站在 camera 前了。
38. B。既然是战地记者站在摄像机前，那当然是给电视观众(TV viewers)作报道了。
39. A。根据第1段中说的around you shells are exploding以及第2段中说的…reporters and photographers were killed 可知，只有选项A最合适。另外，比较四个选项，再结合常识，也可选出答案A。
40. C。根据常识和后面的 28 reporters and photographers were killed 可知答案选C。
41. A。根据文章意思和常识，战地记者死了28人，那么还有数百人应该是 injured。
42. A。比较：bring 带来；show 出示，拿给……看；take 带去，拿到；make 制造。结合后面的 pictures to our TV screens，只有bring 最佳。
43. C。前面说给电视带来pictures，那么与之相对照，给报纸带来的应该是stories。
44. B。根据下文可知，成为一名驻外记者是年轻记者的梦想。
45. D。where引导地点状语从句，其意为“……的地方”。
46. D。前文说当驻外记者是每个年轻记者的梦想，所以当实现梦想的机会出现的时候，他们就一定会抓住，即使(even if)是战争也不畏惧。
47. A。根据下文中的…and bullet(子弹) are flying past your ears…What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again 可知，记者们也有“害怕”的时候。
48. C。子弹从耳边飞过，用past，即指从耳朵旁边飞过。注意不能用through，因为它是指“穿过”“穿透”。
49. B。句中的but使句意发生转折，前面说有时也有害怕的时候，后面经but转折后，应该这种感觉一会儿就过去了。(答此题时要注意围绕“当驻外记者是每个年轻记者的梦想”这一主题。)
50. A。此处指的是害怕的感觉过去后，当下一场战争爆发的时候，你又会出现在那里。(答此题时也要注意围绕“当驻外记者是每个年轻记者的梦想”这一主题。)
51. C。由下文可知，他们随身带着护身符，所以他们不相信他们会死。
52. D。比较：hang 悬挂；wear 穿，戴；hold 握住，拿住；carry 带，携带。因其后的宾语是 a lucky charm(护身符)，显然只有 carry 最合适。
53. B。比较四个选项，再结合空格后的every time，选B最佳。
54. C。向上帝祈求，当然是说“我保证”或“我发誓”，故选C最佳。
55. B。由于战地记者们在“退出”这个问题上总是说话不算数，所以当上帝再次听到他们保证的时候，上帝便会“发笑”了。