I’m an operating engineer, running crane(起重机) in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had
the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started
our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come
and get on the
list.
The next morning I went down to the
at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I
the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to
me, and that I would stay in
with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to
the rest of the way.
And somewhere in there I became
when I went into something I
. I once worked there in 1966 for the
of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten
tall. And it was burning. I started to ask
in which my crane might be
a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had
the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people
them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely
. I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my
and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to die.”
Then I
a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”
| 小题1: | | A．noticed | B．reached | C．hit | D．passed |
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| 小题2: | | A．finding | B．making | C．getting | D．losing |
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| 小题4: | | A．volunteer | B．soldier | C．police | D．fireman |
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| 小题5: | | A．company | B．hotel | C．center | D．home |
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| 小题6: | | A．answered | B．made | C．heard | D．received |
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| 小题7: | | A．be curious about | B．forget about | C．laugh at | D．worry about |
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| 小题8: | | A．peace | B．touch | C．connection | D．relation |
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| 小题9: | | A．walk | B．complete | C．cancel | D．smooth |
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| 小题10: | | A．delighted | B．frightened | C．embarrassed | D．interested |
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| 小题11: | | A．built | B．met | C．designed | D．had |
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| 小题12: | | A．construction | B．plan | C．destruction | D．use |
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| 小题13: | | A．miles | B．centimeters | C．stories | D．floors |
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| 小题14: | | A．means | B．numbers | C．position | D．directions |
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| 小题16: | | A．driven | B．let | C．asked | D．enjoyed |
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| 小题17: | | A．pushing | B．giving | C．looking | D．picking |
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| 小题18: | | A．dangerous | B．urgent | C．efficient | D．important |
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| 小题19: | | A．view | B．sight | C．breath | D．sense |
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| 小题20: | | A．put down | B．settled down | C．knocked down | D．let down |
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