戴尔美语练功坊 英检阅读克漏字测验(8/30日)
下面五个阅读克漏字填充题，内容取自911恐怖行动的新闻英文，程度大约
在英检中级到中高级程度，同学可试做看看，了解自己的程度。
As hijackers took over the United Airlines Flight 93 that would later crash
in western Pennsylvania, at least four passengers placed cell phone calls
to (1) for help or say "I love you," including one who vowed to take
action (2) the attackers. "We're being hijacked!" one man repeatedly
told dispatchers who answered emergency lines before the plane crashed
in western Pennsylvania. Another man called his mother to tell her three
men had taken over the plane. He said he loved her. Then the phone (3) .
The Boeing 757 slammed into a grassy field about 80 miles southeast of
Pittsburgh. Rescue crews who reached the scene shortly after 10 a.m.
found a deep V-shaped gouge (4) smoldering rubble. Forty-five people
had been on board.
Tuesday's hijacking was the last of four closely timed terrorist attacks,
(5) the two on New York's World Trade Center towers and a third
on Defense Department headquarters at the Pentagon.
1. (A) please (B) plead (C) pleasant (D) pleasure
2. (A) behind (B) before (C) against (D) towards
3. (A) went dead (B) went deadly (C) went death (D) went to die
4. (A) was filled with (B) filling with (C) which filled with (D) filled with
5. (A) followed (B) to follow (C) following (D) had following
劫机者挟持联合航空93号班机，在坠毁于宾州西部之前，至少有四名乘客
播手机求救，或说声“我爱你”，其中有一位更誓言要采取行动对抗攻击者。
“我们遭到劫机！”在飞机坠毁于宾州西部之前，一位男士对接听紧急求救
电话的工作人员，重复说著这句话。另外一位男士打电话给他母亲，告诉她
飞机被三个人挟持，同时告诉母亲他爱她，然后电话就断线了。这架波音757
型班机撞击到匹兹堡西南八十英里的一处草地。救难人员于十点过后不久抵达
现场，发现一处V字型的凹洞，里面满是闷烧的碎片，机上原本有45名人员。
星期二的劫机事件是四起密集的恐怖行动中的最后一起。前两起是攻击世贸
大楼，第三起是在五角大厦的国防部总部。
1. 答案：B
plead vi. 请求 please vt. 取悦
pleasant adj. 令人愉快的 pleasure n. 愉快
2. 答案：C
against prep. 对抗
behind prep. 在~之后 before prep. 在~之前 towards prep. 朝着~
3. 答案：A
go dead (电话)断线
4. 答案：D
filled with smoldering rubble 是分词词组
…a deep V-shaped gouge (which was) filled with smoldering rubble
be filled with ~ 充满著~
5. 答案：C
following the two on New York's… 是分词词组
…terrorist attacks, which followed the two on New York's World Trade
Center towers
= …terrorist attacks, following the two on New York's World Trade
Center towers