单选题 Linda Jones's two-year-old son, Reilly, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Lisa Roth's swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Reilly play around with the other children at this 25 of moms and kids last July. The next moment he was gone. Jones turned to her friend Maschel Rawlings and asked, 'Have you seen Reilly?'
Rawlings stood, scanned the pool and 26 screamed. Reilly was 27 facedown in the deep end. What happened next was a 28 textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, 29 the boy, rolled him over and swam him to the edge, their host, Lisa Roth, rushed into the house and called 911. At the pool's 30 , Rawlings handed Reilly up to his mother. His skin was blue, his eyes had rolled back in his head. He wasn't breathing.
Jones laid him next to the pool, and Rawlings, who'd taken a CPR course with Jones just four months earlier, 31 began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who'd had seven CPR courses over the years, ran back out to the pool and took over CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Reilly's mouth and performing chest compressions while Rawlings and Jones 32 his condition.
Gradually his color returned, and then, just as paramedics were arriving on the scene, Rawlings looked at Roth. 'He's breathing,' she said.
The 33 with which the women acted saved Reilly's life. Linda Jones finds it hard to express her feelings for her two friends. 'I'm eternally 34 ,' she says simply. 'They did everything right.'
A. noticeable
B. decisiveness
C. immediately
D. monitored
E. expanding
F. typical
G. precaution
H. grasped
I. floating
J. initially
K. edge
L. grateful
M. gathering
N. resumed
O. suddenly

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【正确答案】M

【答案解析】由指示代词this和of可知空白处应为单数名词。根据句中的play around...at可以推断空白处的名词应指小孩玩耍的地方，因此gathering是最适当的词。 [参考译文] Linda Jones两岁大的儿子Reilly正在露天平台上吃热狗，平台下面就是她的朋友Lisa Roth的游泳池。去年7月，几个妈妈带着宝宝参加聚会。前一刻Jones还看着Reilly在和其他小孩玩，可过一会他就不见了。Jones转身问她的朋友Maschel Rawlings：“你看到Reilly没有?” Rawlings站在那里扫了一眼游泳池，突然尖叫起来。Reilly正脸蛋朝下浮在深水区。紧接着三位女性采取了合乎规范的典型应对措施：Rawlings跳下游泳池，抓住孩子，把他翻转过来，并把他推到岸边，主人Lisa Roth则冲进房间拨打急救电话911。在泳池边，Rawlings把Reilly递给他妈妈Jones。此时，孩子皮肤发青，双眼翻白，没了呼吸。 Jones把孩子放在泳池边上，Rawlings立即开始对他实施人工呼吸——四个月前，她刚和Jones一起学习了心肺复苏急救课程。当过空姐的Roth挂断电话后跑回到泳池边，接替Rawlings继续做人工呼吸，当空姐的那几年她修过7门心肺复苏课程。Roth一边往Reilly的口中吹气，一边挤压他的胸膛，与此同时，Rawlings和Jones则观察他的身体状况，就这样漫长的三分钟过去了。渐渐地，Reilly脸上有了血色，就在护理人员赶到现场的时候，Rawlings对Roth说：“他恢复呼吸了。” 三个妇女的果断行动挽救了Reilly的生命。Linda Jones不知道该如何表达对两位朋友的感激之情。“我将一辈子铭记在心，”她说。“她们做得分毫不差。”

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【正确答案】O

【答案解析】空白处应为副词，修饰screamed。根据上下文的内容，Rawlings并不能预料到她所看到的情景，因此，她应该是“突然”叫起来的，而immediately不能表达“出乎意料”的情况，因此suddenly最适合。

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【正确答案】I

【答案解析】空白处应为动词的分词形式，与was构成句子的谓语。该句应表示Reilly在游泳池中的状态，可见floating“漂浮”一词最适合。

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【正确答案】F

【答案解析】空白处应为形容词或分词，修饰名词response。原文该句中的textbook表明她们面对紧急情况所采取的应对措施标准、合乎规范，typical即可强调表达这个意思。

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【正确答案】H

【答案解析】空白处后接宾语，应为及物动词过去式，与后面的动词rolled，swam并列，表示Rawlings救助落水小孩的动作，因此grasped一词最为适合。

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【正确答案】K

【答案解析】空白处前的修饰成分the pool's提示，此处需要名词作中心词。结合上句的内容，可以推断此处应指泳池“边”，因此edge为本题答案。

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【正确答案】C

【答案解析】空白处应为副词，修饰began。此处表明Rawlings在泳池边“立刻”对孩子实施人工呼吸。在副词词库中，initially意为“最初”，如果此处用initially，则下文应相应有表示“然后”、“接着”的词，但原文并没有这种表示先后顺序的词，因此，词库中只有immediately最合适。

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【正确答案】D

【答案解析】空白处所在分句缺谓语，时态上应与主句保持一致，故此处应填动词过去式。该段描述了对Reilly的施救过程，在词库的动词中，只有monitored一词与上下文的语义相符，词形适当。

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【正确答案】B

【答案解析】空白处应填入名词，作其后定语从句的先行词。该名词与其后定语从句的关系可改写为the women acted with ______，由此可见，空白处的名词应表示三个妇女在救Reilly时的态度方式，在名词词库中，只有decisiveness最适合。

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【正确答案】L

【答案解析】空白处应为形容词或分词，作句子的表语。Linda Jones是Reilly的妈妈，她对救回儿子的人应该表示“感谢”，因此grateful最合适。