2014高考英语阅读理解基础练习精品题(1)及答案.doc2014 高考英语阅读理解基础练****精品题( 1 )及答案阅读理解 It was 3: 12a. nine ? year ? old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of for the cracking of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two ? story house at Baldwin , Long his father away on night duty ata local factory , Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother , his sister Karen,14 and his 12? year ? old brother ran downstairs through the smoke ? filled house to push and pull Karen and Todd until they sat he helped each one through the house to the safety of the , his sister and brother , taking short and quick breaths and coughing , collapsed on the lawn. The nine ? year ? old boy raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother's found it impossible to wake her Kreamer ,a victim of the smoke , was unconscious , and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the the boy remained calm and , asa fireman said later ,“ acted with all the self ? control ofa trained adult ”. On the bedroom telephone , luckily still wording , Glenn called his father and , leaving Mr Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service , 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 , with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden. He could hea