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　　完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)

　　A Race Against Death

　　It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.

　　On the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch     41     a Sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious(传染的) disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be     2     if it struck the town. Dr. Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick.     43    , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.  

　　How could the medicine get to Nome? The town’s     44     was already full of ice, so it couldn’t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn’t travel on the     45     roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn’t exist yet.       46     January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were     47    . Nome’s town officials came up with a(n)     48    . They would have the medicine sent by     49     from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, doge led(狗拉雪橇) drivers—known as “mushers”—would     0     it to Nome in a relay(接力).  

　　The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night.     1     he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon’s face was black from the extreme cold.

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