2019年商务英语高级阅读试题(1)

The 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 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 form 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.”

1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____6. _____7. _____8. _____9. _____10. _____

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