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1、高一英语任务型阅读专项训练一请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空不超过1个单词。 Paul Neal Adair was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen. While growing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red. As a young man, Red Adair dropped out of high school to help support his family. He worked
2、as a laborer for several different companies. In nineteen thirty-eight, Adair got his first oil-related job with the Otis Pressure Control Company. During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job in putt
3、ing out fires in oil wells for fourteen years. But in nineteen fifty-nine, Adair started his own company. During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fi
4、res were in burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells. Putting out oil well fires can be difficult, but Red Adair developed modern methods to extinguish and cover burning oil wells. They became known in the industry as Wild Well Control techniques. In addition to explosives, the techniques
5、 involved large amounts of water and dirt. Adair also developed special equipment made of bronze metal to help extinguish(熄灭) oil well fires. Needless to say, Red Adair was a leader in this specialized and extremely dangerous profession. Red Adair was known for not being afraid. He was also known fo
6、r his sense of calm and safety. None of his workers were ever killed while putting out oil well or gas fires. He described his work this way: It scares you - all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everyones face, when you are finished and packing, it is the best smile in the world
7、; and there is nobody hurt, and the well is under control. Red Adair had spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew. When asked when he might retire, he told reporters: Retire? I do not know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work, and he is producti
8、ve out there and he feels good keep at it. Red Adair died in two thousand four. He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes. Many Americans regard Red Adair as a hero. He lived his life on the edge of danger. He was known for his w
9、illingness to risk his own life to save others. Title: Red Adair and his dreamAdairs experience Young Adair(1)_high school to support his family and got his first oil-related job. During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team After the war, he took a (2)_in putting out fires in oil wells
10、.Fourteen years later, Adair started his own company. Adairs (3)_Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Adair developed new methods and special (4) _to deal with oil well fires. Adair was a (5)_ in the dangerous profession (6) for Adairs successRed Adair was kno
11、wn for his (7)_.(8)_stop working as long as one is able to work.Judgment on AdairHe is a hero in peoples eyes because he is (9)_to save others at the cost of his own (10)_ .二请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空不超过1个单词。 Day after day you are glued to your computer screen. You cannot get enough
12、of online games, net shopping or cyber surfing. Your social life gets worse, and so does your health. Chances are that you are addicted to the Internet and you need counseling. On November 8, an Internet Addiction Disorder(IAD)diagnostic manual(诊断手册)was approved by a group of psychologists in China,
13、 who agreed that Internet addiction is a mental disease. According to a report on X, the manual for the first time gives a clear time standard for diagnosing IAD, saying that surfing the Internet for more than six hours a day, not for the purpose of studying or working, and having done so for less t
14、han three months, might be a symptom of IAD. Addiction symptoms vary Besides the long online time, some other symptoms would also help doctors diagnose IAD patients, such as having a strong desire for the Internet and feeling physical discomfort, becoming easily angry, being unable to concentrate on
15、 things or finding it difficult to sleep if unable to get online. Apart from these conditions, other symptoms are also listed in the manual. If a net surfer cannot get out of the virtual world of Web games, which has already affected his/her capability to study or work, or he/she feels little interest in doing anything but jumping online or is afraid to communicate with others, he/she is also considered to be an IAD sufferer. According to the World Health Organization, mental disease sufferers have two major characteristics: they bring suffering to both themselves and their f
