A. 从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

   The police had moved quickly to block off the area. Now Jim stood across the street with the other students,  61  in great disbelief as the fine department fought to gain control of the fire. But it  62  hopeless. Heavy smoke rose  63  every opening. Already flames were licking out of the ground-level  64  second-story windows of the old school building. Suddenly, the east end of the building exploded  65  flames. The noise was so loud that  66  Jim, who had serious hearing problem, could hear a faint roar.

Across the street  67  the school grounds Mr. MacIntire, the principal, was shouting to the fire chief. Jim read his lips, missing  68  of what he said because of the distance but getting  69  than enough to understand.

“…eight students and a teacher… in a basement room… trapped!”

The fire chief shook his head. The firefighters had tried to  70  the building three times and three times they had failed. There was no hope at all now.

B. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

I stayed there at that job for about five or six weeks and I learned from him a  71  to study, and then I went off to other jobs. I have never been  72  to thank him properly because I never knew then what an enormous contribution he was  73  to my life. He was wonderful, and a little bit of him is  74  everything I do.

After that, I always looked  75  the meaning of words, and when I  76  into words I couldn’t pronounce and didn’t understand, I would work  77  them until I began to understand. I would  78  going over and over the sentence they were in, and after a while I would begin to get an idea of  79  the word meant just by repeating the sentence. That became a habit, 80  did all the other things he left me with.

Ⅴ . 根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，共 20 分）

81.The bases of long-term happiness are __________.

82.In Remember Tracy Bill, the writer and her husband got to meet the donor’s family as the donor’s parents__________.