When it’s not your time to go, it’s not your time to go. April 12th was not Kyle Semrau’s day to leave this earth.
The day started as usual, with one big _________: Kyle’s 6-year-old daughter Macie refused to go to kindergarten. She only sat in the basement room.
This _________ is unusual for the kindergartner, but she was just really missing her dad that morning. It was also the one-year anniversary of her grandmother’s death, so she needed some extra _________. When Kyle got home from his night job, he agreed to spend a _________day with his daughter and 4-year-old son, Caleb, while his wife was at work.
Kyle wasn’t feeling very well when he got home that day. Later that morning, he lost consciousness repeatedly. When he was _________, he was yelling for help.
As fate would have it, help was in the house! Macie heard her father and realized she needed to do something. While Caleb comforted their dad, she _________what happened like someone three times her age.
At one of Kyle’s conscious moments, Macie_________ him to tell her the password of the cellphone so that she could _________ the phone. Then, she called the police.
Administrative assistant Judy Smith picked up the telephone at the Eliot Police Department. To her _________, Macie almost __________everything, including her home address, her dad’s name and age, and how police could best get to him inside the basement room where he’d been resting.
Police arrived in just two minutes and __________ sent Kyle to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
Kyle spent three days __________in the hospital. “If I can say anything about this __________ experience, it’s for everyone to teach kids about awareness,” said Kyle. “If I hadn’t taught my daughter certain things she couldn’t learn in school, this outcome could have been __________ different. Macie deserves to be __________.”
【小题1】A.campaign | B.target | C.step | D.difference |
【小题2】A.behaviour | B.schedule | C.stage | D.principle |
【小题3】A.pressure | B.challenge | C.comfort | D.guidance |
【小题4】A.strange | B.quiet | C.terrible | D.busy |
【小题5】A.confused | B.sleepy | C.energetic | D.awake |
【小题6】A.held back | B.dealt with | C.put down | D.picked out |
【小题7】A.warned | B.forbade | C.forced | D.asked |
【小题8】A.pass | B.check | C.unlock | D.fix |
【小题9】A.embarrassment | B.shame | C.sorrow | D.surprise |
【小题10】A.knew | B.admitted | C.mistook | D.recorded |
【小题11】A.accidentally | B.randomly | C.instantly | D.unwillingly |
【小题12】A.serving | B.recovering | C.wandering | D.waiting |
【小题13】A.awkward | B.funny | C.ordinary | D.unforgettable |
【小题14】A.slightly | B.gradually | C.completely | D.temporarily |
【小题15】A.praised | B.punished | C.promoted | D.protected |