A.was using her mobile phone to ask for help

B.begged the rescuers to save her baby first

C.was struggling with the pressure

D.didn't have the normal shape

答案 D

解析 细节理解题。从第一段的"It was something like an ancient person who was kowtowing,but it just looked strange because she was out of shape by pressure."可知当救援人员发现那位母亲时,她的身体已经变形,故选D项。

2.The underlined word "confirmed" in Paragraph 2 may mean "　　　".

A.proved　　　　　　　　　B.inferred

C.guessed D.imagined

答案 A

解析 词义猜测题。根据下文可知,句子"The rescuers confirmed her death by touching her through the gaps of the ruins."的意思是:救援人员通过废墟的空隙触摸她,证实了她的死亡。故本题答案为A项。

3.When the baby was rescued,he 　　　.

A.was smiling B.was sleeping

C.was listening carefully D.was frightened to death

答案 B

解析 细节理解题。从最后一段的"He was in a deep sleep when the rescuer carried him out..."可知答案。

4.The passage is mainly about 　　　.

A.a story of saving a mother and her baby

B.the disaster of a terrible earthquake

C.the rescuers' hard work after an earthquake

D.the great love of a mother in an earthquake

答案 D

解析 主旨大意题。通过本文的故事可知,在地震发生时,一位母亲用自己的身体保护了熟睡中的孩子,而自己却遇难了。这一故事赞扬了地震中伟大的母爱。

　　It was 3:12 am when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer woke up to the smell of burning.Except for the cracking of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-story house at Baldwin,Long Island.With his father away on night duty at a local factory,Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother,his sister Karen,14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd.He ran downstairs through the smoke-filled house to push and pull Karen and Todd until they sat up.Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden.There,his sister and brother,taking short and quick breaths and coughing,sat on the ground.

　　The nine-year-old boy ran back into the house and upstairs to his mother's room.He found it impossible to wake her up.Mrs.Kreamer,because of the smoke,was unconscious(无意识的),and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden.But the boy remained calm and,as a fireman said later,"acted with all the self-control of a trained(训练) grown-up".

On the bedroom telephone,luckily still working,Glenn called his father and,leaving Mr.Kreamer to telephone the firemen and ambulance service,got on with the task of saving his