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 bullet(子弹) 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(护身符) 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