完形填空。
You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house
behind you. What are you doing there? You aren't a soldier. You aren't1carrying a gun. You're standing in
front of a2and you're telling the TV3what is happening.
It's all in a day's work for a war reporter, and it can be very4. In the first two years of the5in former
Yugoslavia (前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were6 .What kind of
people put themselves in er to7pictures to our TV screens and8to our newspapers? Why do they
do it?
'I think it's every young journalist's9to be a foreign reporter,' says Michael Nicholson, 'that's10you
find the excitement.So when the first opportunity comes,you take it11it is a war.'
But there are moments of12. Jeremy Bowen says, 'Yes,when you're lying on the ground and bullets (子弹)
are flying13your ears,you think: 'What am I doing here? I'm not going to do this again.' But that feeling14
after a while and when the next war starts, you'll be15.'
'None of us believes that we're going to16 ,' adds Michael.But he always17a lucky charm (护身符)
with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It's a card which says 'Take care of yourself.' Does
he ever think about dying? 'Oh,18,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, 'If you get
me out of this, I19I'll never do it again.' You can almost hear God20,because you know he doesn't believe
you.'
( )1. A. simply
( )2. A. crowd
( )3. A. producers
( )4. A. erous
( )5. A. stay
( )6. A. injured
( )7. A. bring
( )8. A. scenes
( )9. A. belief
( )10. A. why
( )11. A. even so
( )12. A. fear
( )13. A. into
( )14. A. returns
( )15. A. there
( )16. A. leave
( )17. A. hangs
( )18. A. never
( )19. A. consider
( )20. A. whispering B. really
B. house
B. viewers
B. exciting
B. fight
B. buried
B. show
B. passages
B. dream
B. what
B. ever since
B. surprise
B. around
B. goes
B. away
B. escape
B. wears
B. many times
B. accept
B. laughing C. merely
C. battlefield
C. directors
C. normal
C. war
C. defeated
C. take
C. stories
C. duty
C. how
C. as if
C. shame
C. past
C. continues
C. out
C. die
C. holds
C. some time
C. promise
C. screaming D. even
D. camera
D. actors
D. disappointing
D. life
D. saved
D. make
D. contents
D. faith
D. where
D. even if
D. sadness
D. through
D. occurs
D. home
D. remain
D. carries
D. seldom
D. guess
D. crying