2016年高考第二轮复习英语广东版
专题升级训练八 语言知识及应用(八)
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Are you a man or a mouse?When people ask this question they want to know whether you think you are a __1__ person or a coward(懦夫).But you will never really know the answer to this question until you are
__2__ in real life.Some people think they are brave but when they come face to face with real __3__,they act like cowards.Others think of themselves as cowards,but when they meet danger,they act like __4__.
Lenny had always thought of himself as a __5__ person.He got worried before examinations.He worried about his job and his health.All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy.Then January 5th,2002,a plane __6__ into the Potomac River in Washington.Lenny went to the river to see what was happening.He saw a woman in the __7__ water.Lenny did not feel afraid.He kept very __8__ and did a very courageous thing.He jumped into Potomac,__9__ to the woman,and kept her head above the water.Seventyeight people died that day.Thanks to Lenny,it was not __10__.
When you are in a very dangerous __11__ and feel afraid,the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood.This chemical is called adrenalin(肾上腺激素).With adrenalin in the blood system,you actually feel stronger and stronger and are __12__ to fight or run away.However,when you are __13__ frightened,the body can produce too much adrenalin.When this __14__,the muscles become very hard and you find you can't __15__ at all.You are paralyzed(使无能为力)with fear.That is why when we are very frightened,we sometimes say we are “petrified”;this word comes from a Greek word “petros”,which means “stone”.We are so frightened that we become stonelike.
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