2016年上海初三各区一模英语试卷整理(含答案)(7)

two-floor house. But he realized at once what was happening. As his father was away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his other, his 14-year-old sister Karen and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke-filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped them through the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, couldn’t move any more.

The ten-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs into his mother’s room. He found it impossible to wake her up and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy kept calm. As a fireman said later, “He acted with all the self-control of a trained adult.”

On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father. After Glenn made sure his father would telephone the firemen and ambulance service, he got on with the task of saving his mother.

First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. In this way, she would be kept away from the fire before the firemen arrived. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.

He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where fire had almost covered the ground floor?

Fetching a ball of string(绳) from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and rushed upstairs to his mother’s room. He tied one end of the string to her hand. Then he began to run back. He laid out the string as he went through the hall and back out into the garden.

Minutes later he was telling fire Chief John Coughlan, “The .” Mrs. Creamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.

88. Did Glenn realize there was a fire when he woke up?

89. Where were Karen and Todd when Glenn tried to save their mother?

90. Who telephoned the firemen and ambulance service?

91. How did Glenn help his mother stay safe before the firemen arrived?

92. Why did Glenn think it would be difficult for the firemen to find his mother?

93. Complete the sentence in the last paragraph according to the context(上下文)?

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