高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 完形填空专题二十一pushed
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On a late January evening in 2008, Rachel Lapierre bought a $4 scratch ticket while picking up groceries. For years, Lapierre had done humanitarian work overseas for organizations and she longed to be able to one day 1    her nursing job and focus on the volunteer work she found most 2    . She vowed to herself that if she ever won the lottery, that’s what she would do.
Lapierre went home and 3    her ticket, revealing three sunny faces. Not sure what they meant, she took it to a corner store, where the ticket-checking machine went berserk but didn’t 4    the prize. The next day, the Loto-Quebec office 5    her that she had won a lump sum of $675,000 or $1,000 a week for life. She chose the 6    . “I know myself,” she says. “The lump sum would have melted like snow in the sun.”
Staying true to her 7    , Lapierre quit her nursing job and 8    her life to helping others throu
gh her passion project, Le Book Humanitaire, which has since become a registered 9    . Le Book, as Lapierre, now 62, affectionately calls it, began as a simple list of good deeds she jotted down in a black-and-white wire-coiled notebook. She had been using it to keep 10    of what she had done to help those living in the small 11    around her.
To her, the deeds were just small acts of kindness—buying clothes for a family of newly arrived immigrants, delivering a meal to an isolated 12    or or giving medical attention to someone living on the streets—that anyone else might have done. But word started spreading, her phone began ringing and a Facebook page she created for the project became an efficient way to 13  requests from those in need and those who wanted to help.
Sixteen years later, Le Book Humanitaire now has a team of 80 volunteers. The book itself? It has since been replaced by dozens more, representing millions of deeds. In 2022 alone, the organization 14    nearly 450,000 acts of service.
“When you do a good deed, it has a butterfly 15    ,” says Lapierre. “One good deed can a
ffect 10 people. So if we all do a good deed? That can save the world.”
【Reader’s Digest Canada (July & August, 2023)】
1.A. quit B. manage C. replace D. apply
2. A. challenging B. demanding C. rewarding D. fulfilling
3. A. cleaned B. scratched C. announced D. noticed
4. A. distribute B. comment C. drop D. reveal
5. A. informed B. warned C. required D. covered
6. A. value B. former C. last D. latter
7. A. word B. plan C. position D. pose
8. A. owed B. led C. dedicated D. saved
9. A. plant B. charity C. company D. agency
10. A. informed B. busy C. road D. track
11. A. areas B. regions C. apartments D. communities
12. A. senior B. mother C. staff D. homeless
13. A. appeal B. reject C. field D. recite
14. A. carried out B. carried off C. carried on D. carried up
15. A. situation B. effect C. phenomenon D. condition
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The Deadly Swamp（Excerpt）
BY Derek Burnett
Losing his arm to an alligator was just the start of Eric Merda’s three-day ordeal（磨难）.
Now Merda spent another couple of hours wandering among the orange trees, which were laid out in an endless grid. No 1  of civilization, so he re-entered the woods and soon found himself mucking around in swamp water.
He 2    for hours as the sun sank. Tall, thick grasses and thorns clogged his way; mud and water 3    his boots. He tried to 4    by the sun but kept losing it. Each time he picked out a 5    or chose a beeline course, he became hopelessly lost again after just a few minutes.
Darkness was falling when at last he re-emerged onto the shore of the lake. The water was surprisingly cold, especially as it deepened. Merda started out paddling strongly for the opposite 6    , drinking lake water to quench his awful thirst. He swam on, but some strange 7    prevented his progress. He was a good swimmer, yet he somehow kept 8    from his goal. It was maddening, but he refused to surrender to 9    . The sun disappeared and the stars came out, and still he struggled. And that’s when he saw the alligator.
Before he could swim a stroke, before he could save himself, before he could 10    a scream, the creature 11    like a snake. It sank its teeth into Merda’s forearm, breaking it at the elbow, and 12    him underwater.
Merda went into 13    mode. He flung his other arm around the gator’s middle, clutching at its heaving belly as he kicked his feet to keep from going to the bottom. Man and beast resurfaced and Merda gulped 14    —but just as quickly the gator yanked him under again. The third time, the alligator did what alligators do: It barrel-rolled its entire body in a vicious coup de grâce（致命一击）, and Merda felt the flesh of his arm 15    as the limb was severed. The creature disappeared into the darkness, carrying Merda’s forearm with it.

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