You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t 36 carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a 37 and you’re telling the TV 38 what is happening.

　　It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very 39 .In the first two years of the 40 in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫),28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were 41 .What kind of people put themselves in danger to 42 pictures to our TV screens and 43 to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

　　“I think it’s every young journalist’s 44 to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s 45 you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes ,you take it 46 it is a war.”

　　But there are moments of 47 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets (子彈)are flying 48 your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling 49 after a while and when the next war starts , you’ll be

　　50 .”

　　“None of us believes that we’re going to 51 ,” adds Michael .But he always 52 a lucky charm(護(hù)身符)with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war .It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, 53 ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I 54 I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God 55 ,because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

　　36.A.simply B.really C.merely D.even

　　37.A.crowd B.house C.battlefield D.camera

　　38.A.producers B.viewers C.directors D.actors

　　39.A.dangerous B.exciting C.normal D.disappointing

　　40.A.stay B.fight C.war D.life

　　41.A.injured B.buried C.defeated D.saved

　　42.A.bring B.show C.take D.make

　　43.A.scenes B.passages C.stories D.contents

　　44.A.belief B.dream C.duty D.faith

　　45.A.why B.what C.how D.where

　　46.A.even so B.ever since C.as if D.even if

　　47.A.fear B.surprise C.shame D.sadness

　　48.A.into B.around C.past D.through

　　49.A.returns B.goes C.continues D.occurs

　　50.A.there B.away C.out D.home

　　51.A.leave B.escape C.die D.remain

　　52.A.hangs B.wears C.holds D.carries

　　53.A.never B.many times C.some time D.seldom

　　54.A.consider B.accept C.promise D.guess

　　55.A.whispering B.laughing C.screaming D.crying

　　答案 36.D 37.D 38.B 39.A 40.C 41.A 42.A 43.C 44.B 45.D 46.D 47.A 48.C 49.B 50.A 51.C 52.D 53.B 54.C 55.B