Question

Choose the best answer and complete the passage （選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)倪x項(xiàng)完成短文）

Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a meeting place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was _______ that the fires of war would destroy the books, which are more precious to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language— new books, ancient books, _______ a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old. She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a safe place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands, Secretly, she brought books home every night, _______ her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war _______. Anis who owned a restaurant agreed to hide some books. All though the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, passed them over the sever-foot wall and hid them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war _______. Then nine days later, a fire burned the library to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the soldiers left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet. So she hired a truck to bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs（郊區(qū)）. Now Alia waited for the war to end and _______ peace and a new library.

1.A.worried B.angry C.doubtful D.curious

2.A.then B.still C.even D.rather

3.A.starting B.parking C.testing D.filling

4.A.took off B.broke out C.went off D.broke up

5.A.opened B.stopped C.continued D.ended

6.A.dreamed of B.believed in C.cared about D.looked for

Answer 1