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II. Cloze(50%)You are required to select one suitable word for each blank from the word bank. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill in the blanks with the corresponding letter.A receive F industrial K inspiredB awarded G recent L assistanceC accept H established M extraordinaryD scholarship I risks N killedE endanger J admired O certainThe Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada. The Fund aims to provide financial ___1____ for those disabled and the dependents of those ___2____ when saving or attempting to save others. Those chosen for recognition ___3____ the Carnegie Medal and become eligible for ___4___ aid and other benefits. A private operating foundation, the Carnegie Hero Fund was __5___ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1904 with a trust fund of $5 million by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist(慈善家). On January 25,1904, ___6____ by the heroism at a coal mine disaster in Harwick, Pennsylvania, Andrew Carnegie decided to toss some of his ___7____ wealth to uphold the ideal that “heroes and those dependent upon them should be freed from pecuniary (金钱上的) cares resulting from their heroism.”The commission has just ___8___ its latest batch of heroes, bringing the total number up to 9,111.This is what they did to become heroes: run into burning buildings and cars; fight off men with knives and snapping dogs; dive into water for flailing people; go after people hanging off cliffs.And those things must be done by a “civilian who knowingly ___9____ his or her own life to a(n) ___10____ degree while saving or attempting to save the life of another person.”
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