You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells (炮弹)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
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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 .”
小题1: | A.really | B.simply | C.merely | D.even |
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小题2: | A.battlefield | B.crowd | C.camera | D.house |
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小题3: | A.directors | B.producers | C.actors | D.viewers |
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小题4: | A.depressing | B.disappointing | C.dangerous | D.endangered |
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小题6: | A.buried | B.defeated | C.wounded | D.beaten |
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小题7: | A.take | B.bring | C.make | D.show |
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小题8: | A.Stories | B.scenes | C.passages | D.contents |
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小题9: | A.faith | B.nightmare | C.dream | D.duty |
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小题10: | A.how | B.why | C.where | D.because |
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小题11: | A.even if | B.as if | C.even so | D.ever since |
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小题12: | A.fear | B.surprise | C.sadness | D.shame |
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小题13: | A.past | B.into | C.through | D.around |
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小题14: | A.occurs | B.returns | C.goes | D.continues |
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小题15: | A.away | B.out | C.home | D.there |
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小题16: | A.die | B.leave | C.remain | D.escape |
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小题17: | A.wears | B.carries | C.hangs | D.holds |
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小题18: | A.seldom | B.never | C.many times | D.some time |
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小题19: | A.consider | B.promise | C.guess | D.accept |
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小题20: | A.screaming | B.laughing | C.crying | D.whispering |
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