2017年高一英语 阅读理解专项训练 Week One时事新闻.docVIP

Week One 时事新闻阅读理解（共16小题；共32.0分）A A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at a US school where his mother worked Friday morning in one of the worst school shootings in the countrys history. Pupils who were rushed from the building through the terrible scene by police were told to close their eyes. A police officer said the suspect, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and he was the son of a teacher at the school. The mother, Nancy Lanza, was found dead at home. The attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School, just two weeks before Christmas, was the latest of several mass shootings in the US in the year of 2012, and it approached the deadly scope of the Virginia Tech university shooting in 2007 that left 32 dead. This time, many who were killed were young children. Photos from the scene showed students, some of them crying, being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each others shoulders. Children told their parents they had heard bangs and, at one point, a scream over the intercom(内部通话装置). State police said 18 children were found dead at the school and two later were declared dead, and six adults were found dead at the scene. They said the shootings occurred in one section of the school but did not give details. Police said another person was found dead at a second scene—someone who lived with the gunman died. Our hearts are broken today, President Barack Obama said. He said the children killed were 5 to 10 years old. He said the nation had been through this too many times with recent mass shootings and has to come together to take meaningful action. 1. How many people were killed in the accident altogether? A. 20. B. 26. C. 28. D. 32. 2. Why did the police ask the pupils to close their eyes? A. Because the scene would frighten them. B. Because the police didnt want them to rush. C. Because their ey