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"I was just like you--I’ thought I was invincible," says Adam Blomberg, standing before 400 students in a darkened auditorium at Miami’s Coral Reef Senior High School. A photo of a bloodied and unconscious teenager, a breathing tube protruding from his mouth, flashes on the wall.

"That was me," he says. There’s a collective gasp before the room grows silent and Blomberg,31, an anesthesiologist who trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, begins the story of what happened one night in February 1995.

He created a presentation illustrating the dangers of behaving irresponsibly in a car, from not buckling up to speeding to driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He tracked down photos of teen crash victims from the center’s archives, then incorporated statistics and his own experience. He spoke the first time to a local Boy Scout troop and was soon giving his talk, "A Survivor’s Story," at high schools around the state.

The Blomberg family had reason to celebrate. Adam had fully recovered and was on his way to fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a doctor. But in January 2000, Blomberg’s 22-year-old step-brother, Michael, was killed in a crash while driving to his Atlanta home late one night. He wasn’t wearing a seat belt. After the accident, Blomberg stopped telling his story to crowds, racked with guilt over his inability to reach Michael. If Blomberg had failed his own brother, he reasoned, how could he possibly make a difference to a roomful of strangers Requests from schools continued to roll in, but he turned down every one.

Then Blomberg got a call from a high school counselor. As he started into his standard excuse-lack of time—he looked across the room at a stack of thank-you notes from students who had heard him speak. He realized that kids needed to hear what he had to say. He agreed to visit the school and began contacting others on the waiting list for his talks.

Blomberg leaves the school hoping he has changed someone’s behavior. He recalls a letter he received from a student who heard him speak and got into a crash later that same day but was unharmed. " She told me she was wearing her seat belt because of me."

Letters like this reinforce his belief that he survived the accident for a reason. "There are a lot of physicians in the world, and we all save lives," he says. "I have a special opportunity to save lives not just as a doctor but also as a human being.\

Which one of the following is the best title for this passage()

A. Teen Driving Risks Are Highest

B. Vehicle Safety Trends Will Drive Interior

C. Road Safety Management and Emergency Response

D. Teaching Teens Safe Driving

答案

参考答案:D

解析:

标题选择题,是文章主旨题的一种变形的呈现形式;结合全文的主要内容,我们可以知道这里所讲的是安全驾驶的问题,而且是针对青少年的驾驶安全教育。比较4个选项,D选项和这样的分析最为吻合。A选项触及Teen Driring Risks这个核心问题,但是文章并没有对不同人群的驾驶风险进行比较,A选项需要排除。B选项和C选项与原文的关系比较远,比较容易排除。

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     I had a cigarette one morning as I walked along the wooded path toward my house deep in the forest.
     I know smoking is bad for me, and     1  . I had tried to kick the habit, but   2  . Not even when my
aunt Bernie got lung cancer. How many times had she begged me to give   _3_ up? After she died, I
made up my mind to stop, and did so, but     4    I started up again.
     The house had been one of Aunt Bernie's favorite places to stay. Lately, I had earned some     5   
  income by renting it out. New renters were     6    to arrive that afternoon.
     The house has no electricity, so I had to    7      there was enough propane (丙烷) in the tank to 
    8     the fridge and the stove (火炉). Seeing the house in the distance through the trees, I thought
about     9  . I could still hear her   10   telling me, "Give up smoking; it will     11   you."
     As I was     12     the house, the voice grew stronger,   13     my aunt were standing right beside me.
Finally, I couldn't    14     it any longer. I smothered (弄熄) it. "Fine, Auntie, I   15  . See?"
     I continued down the path,     16     the urge to light up again.  Reaching the house,  I opened the
door. Whoa!  I stepped back. The   17       was strong. Propane gases! I ran around to the back and
found the problem. The previous   18   had forgotten to turn off the propane tank before they left. The
house had been     19    up with gas for a week!
     If I had still been smoking that cigarette... I thought now, 20  . My aunt Bernie was right. Smoking
can kill me. The next day I started a quitsmoking program, and I haven't lit up since.
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