第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 30 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
   It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station; she jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’d just returned from visiting her mother and had  traveled  the route  many times before. She practically    11     on  autopilot: a  left  onto  Station  Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then—wham! Out of nowhere a car T-boned Esposito’s minivan,      12      her to move backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She      13       in the minivan, bruised  ( 撞 伤 ) but mostly just knocked out by the       14       and  the airbags.
As it happened, Pete DiPinto  was getting ready  for     15     . He’d just closed his book    and was getting under the covers when he heard the sound of metal on metal and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window.  A volunteer  16  and retired  teacher,   DiPinto, 64, never       17        to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas    (睡衣), ran out the door. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he told Newsday. “We’re always on 18 .”
The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had  19 Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and  20 Esposito’s minivan positioned on the the railroad tracks. And then he heard a terrible sound: the bells signaling an oncoming  21 .
“The gates were starting to come down,” he told Newsday. “I see the headlight of the train.” DiPinto ran quickly to Esposito’s minivan and knocked on the driver’s side window. She    22    looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. She     seemed unhurt. “Honey,  you’re on the railroad    23     ,” DiPinto shouted. “We  have  to  get   you off right now!” He pulled hard on the    24    , but the door was crashed in and     25     . The    heavy diesel train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was moving fast toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the      26      . “Please, don’t let her be      27      ,” he thought.     He pushed aside the deflating ( 瘪 了 的 ) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and  28  her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and quickly get her to        29        behind  a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimated, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.
But this one had a twist. “Last night,” South Country Ambulance chief Greg Miglino told
CBS New York, “the 30 arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”