每日一练06A Race against Death On January 20, Nome was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow. Worse still, Diphtheria(白喉), a 1 infectious(传染的) disease mainly affecting children, struck the town. Medicine was in great need to stop other kids from getting sick. 2 , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage. How could the medicine get to Nome? The towns 3 was already full of ice, so it couldnt come by ship. Cars and horses couldnt travel on the 4 roads. No jet airplanes and big trucks then! By January 26, four children had died. Twenty more were 5 . Nomes town officials came up with a(n) 6 . They would have the medicine sent by 7 from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogsled(狗拉雪橇) drivers would 8 it to Nome in a relay(接力). The race began on January 27. The first driver, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. On January 31, a driver named Seppala had to 9 a frozen body of water called Norton Sound, which was covered with ice, sometimes breaking up without warning. In that case, he would 10 , and so would the sick children of Nome. But Seppala made it across. A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. A driver named Kaasen had to brave this storm. At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his 11 . He had to leave the trail (雪橇痕迹) to get around them. Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to 12 the trail again. The only hope was Balto, Kaasens lead dog. Balto put his nose to the ground, 13 to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. 14 , he succeeded. At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog 15 in Nome. Within minutes, the doctor quickly gave the medicine to the sick children. All of them recovered.1. A. harmless B. deadlyC. unknownD. slight2. A. Moreover B. Therefore C. Otherwise D. However3. A. airport B. station C. harbor D. border4. A. narrow B. snowy C. busy D. dirty5. A. tired B. upset C. pale D. sick6. A. plan B. excuse C. message D. topic7. A. air B. railC. seaD. road8. A. carry B. return C. mail D. give9. A. enter B. move C. visit D. cross10. A. escapeB. bleed C. swim D. die11. A. memory B. exit C. way D. destination12. A. find B. fix C. pass D. change13. A. pretending B. trying C. asking D. learning14. A. LuckilyB. UnfortunatelyC. HonestlyD. Secretly15. A. gathered B. stayed C. camped D. arrived Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asias biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top attraction. So it was 16 great honor to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, 17 _ ticket money helps pay for research, I 18 (allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be 19 (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection 20 pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first Western TV 21 (report) to be permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas 22 (rescue) from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial 23 (duty) will include 24 (introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia. On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother. The nursery team switches him every few days with 25 (he) sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, the other is with mum she never suspects. When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up. Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didnt have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Dannys mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard. Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even thoug