题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
安徽省池州市2018-2019学年高二下学期英语期末考试试卷
It was rush hour in San Angelo. Heather Santé was driving her Mazda with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck 1 them off. Santé turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda 2 off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn't 3, it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of 4: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got 5 on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it 6.
The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a wall, literally (确实地) on the edge of 7. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.
Jacob Rodriguez watched the 8 unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They 9 onto the trunk to balance the weight as the 10 kids in the back seat watched.
11, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help 12 Marco went to the shop, 13 a heavy-duty belt, and returned to the 14 car. He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car 15, the group carefully opened the 16 doors and helped the children out.
But their departure changed the car's 17, causing it to tip forward. The men, still on the trunk, 18 Santé to jump into the back seat to re-balance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully 19 the car. Everyone was safe. Another foot, Rodriguez told USA Today, "and this would be a different 20."
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