You are near the front line of a battle

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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

答案

36.D 37.D 38.B 39.A 40.C 41.A 42.A 43.C 44.B 45.D

46.D 47.A 48.C 49.B 50.A51.C 52.B 53.B 54.C 55.B

36.解析：前面说，你在前线，你不是战士，所以后面的意思应该是“甚至没有枪”。

37.解析：本文是讲战地记者的，他们作报道应该站在镜头前。crowd人群，house房子，battlefield战场。

38.解析：对电视观众作介绍，用viewer。producer制片人，director导演，actor演员。

39.解析：后面讲了28个记者和摄影师死在战场上，因此，战地记者的工作是很危险的。

40.解析：前面讲战地记者，因此这里说的是前南斯拉夫战争。

41.解析：injured受伤。根据句意，28个人牺牲，成百上千的人受伤。bury埋葬，defeat打败，save解救。

42.解析：bring...to把……带给。

43.解析：story故事，经历。在报纸上报道的事情的经历常用story表示。

44.解析：dream梦想。从句意来看，成为外国记者是每个年轻记者的梦想，而不是belief信仰，duty职责，faith信仰、约定。

45.解析：where引导表语从句，表示地点。那是你发现激动人心的地方。

46.解析：even if即使，as if好像，even so即使这样，ever since从那时到现在。“机会来了你要抓住它，即使是一场战争”。

47.解析：后面讲到子弹飞过耳边，因此应该是fear，害怕。surprise惊讶，shame害羞，sadness悲伤。

48.解析：past经过。子弹飞过耳边，fly past your ears。into表示飞进，around表示绕着飞，through表示把耳朵打穿。

49.解析：前面讲到有害怕的感觉，所以应该“一会儿这种感觉走了（消失）”。return回来，continue继续，occur发生。

50.解析：意思是“下一次战争开始时，你还会在那里”。

51.解析：“我们没有人相信自己会死。”

52.解析：wear穿、戴。本句意思是“他戴着一个护身符”。

53.解析：后面说every time，说明是想过，所以选many times。

54.解析：这是向上帝祈祷，所以用“保证”，promise。

55.解析：上帝不相信你的话，所以应该是能听到他笑。whisper低语，scream尖叫，cry哭泣。