2022年12月六级 第1套 Section A 选词填空

During the summer, when I was a visiting poet at a residency out of state, an angry, confused woman wandered into my class and said: "I have three guns and I want to use them." We all __26__. It wasn't clear if she had the guns, but we each know that, when we teach in America, we are already in danger.

I was dizzy with fear. The woman, who later turned out to be a schizophrenic (精神分裂症患者) without __27__ to her medications, was, by some force, wrestled out and __28__ away, then put in a hospital for observation, in a step that was actually safer for everyone than any one of us pressing charges. My class went on; we talked about poems. But despite the fact that the rest of our days on campus passed __29__, I was rattled. I couldn't shake the sense that in this country we always live at __30__ risk.

A few months later, crisis __31__ again. While my husband was locking his bike to drop off our 3-year-old daughter for her preschool-aged day camp, a different woman approached. Swiftly and for no __32__ reason, she bent down, picked up our daughter, and began to carry her down the street. It was so fast and confusing that my daughter __33__ cried. My husband, in a burst of speed, chased the woman and reclaimed our daughter. The woman, clearly confused, retreated into the public library. A __34__ of homeless people who generally know the other homeless in the area said they did not recognize the woman. The woman was so clearly unwell that when she was taken into custody she was incoherent. Heartbreakingly, she called our daughter by the name of someone else's child. Each part of the episode was haunting as it was __35__.