题目内容：

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     .

1.A. face  B. body C. dress D. story

2.A. defended    B. feared C. fought D. destroyed

3.A. recorder     B. container C. overcoat D. camera

4.A. lately B. tightly C. quickly D. suddenly

5.A. sense B. scene C. stage D. section

6.A. outside B. outdoors C. inside D. indoors

7.A. coming out  B. taking out C. going out D. walking out

8.A. necessary   B. successful C. natural D. impossible

9.A. road B. lane C. way D. street

10.A. moving     B. sitting C. crying D. standing

11.A. dancers     B. musicians C. painters D. firemen

12.A. when B. unless C. until D. because

13.A. picked out   B. worked out C. broke out D. put out

14.A. safe B. busy C. tired D. nervous

15.A. practice     B. preparation C. work D. performance

16.A. patient       B. lucky C. hopeless D. pleased

17.A. entrances    B. exits C. gates D. doors

18.A. left B. arrived C. escaped D. entered

19.A. fight B. tent C. fire D. water

20.A. history      B. summer C. season D. movement