July 6, 1994 was a day of nightmare (噩梦) that I’ll never forget. That afternoon when I was making up my in a dressing tent at the moment, I suddenly heard someone run past shouting, “Fire!” Fire was what we circus (马戏团) people most , for there was a large audience in the tent, including many children. I rushed towards the tent with a water but I could do nothing with it since the tent was burning too high and the flames spreading .
In the burning tent was a of panic: People rushed towards the exits, and some even jumped twelve feet from the top rows of the grandstand to the ground . Some people, after , tried to reenter to help their relations or friends. Yet it was for them to get through the crowd, instead, they blocked the . I fought at one exit, shouting at the top of my voice, “Go on! Keep !” At every exit, circus people were doing the same thing. In the midst (中间) of this scene, the kept on playing the tent was on fire overhead.
City fire equipment finally arrived and the fire. All the circus people were _ though some were injured or burned during the rescue . The audience, however, were not that . In a panic, they all tried to use the regular through which they had _ the tent. As a result, 168 people had died in the —the worst circus disaster in .
A.face B.body C.dress D.story
A.defended B.feared C.fought D.destroyed
A.recorder B.container C.overcoat D.camera
A.lately B.tightly C.quickly D.suddenly
A.sense B.scene C.stage D.section
A.outside B.outdoors C.inside D.indoors
A.coming out B.taking out C.going out D.walking out
A.necessary B.successful C.natural D.impossible
A.road B.lane C.way D.street
A.moving B.sitting C.crying D.standing
A.dancers B.musicians C.painters D.firemen
A.when B.unless C.until D.because
A.picked out B.worked out C.broke out D.put out
A.safe B.busy C.tired D.nervous
A.practice B.preparation C.work D.performance
A.patient B.lucky C.hopeless D.pleased
A.entrances B.exits C.gates D.doors
A.left B.arrived C.escaped D.entered
A.fight B.tent C.fire D.water
A.history B.summer C.season D.movement