When you’re a preteen, a huge problem might be that you just have to have a new rock-rap CD,
1 your parents won’t give you the money for it. I thought life was so
2 when things like this happened-----until September 11, 2001.
I was in P.E. when the planes hit the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. As soon as I got home and for weeks before, I saw the disaster
3 on TV. Seeing the innocent people running for their
4 as the debris(瓦砾) started coming down the fire and smoke rose out of the
5 brought tears to my eyes. I couldn’t help imagining what the people on the
6 and in the buildings were thinking and going through, not
7 what was going on. I admired the courage of the firefighters who rushed in and risked their own lives to
8 others. It tore my heart apart to watch the
9 looks on the faces of so many people who didn’t know if their loved ones were dead or alive while
10 in all the debris.
Then it
11 me: All my life I had thought mainly of myself. I had it easy in life and had been taking it all for granted.
A feeling of coldness
12 down my back, and I cried just thinking of the possibility that it could have easily
13 to my family. My mom or dad could have been killed like that, and I would never, ever see them again. I began to evaluate what a real
14 in life was.
This disaster
15 me that awful things can happen to anyone at any time. Now when my mom or dad or sister go somewhere, even if it’s just
16 the store, I try to remember to tell them that I love them because I know there is a
17 that I may never tell them that
18 .
Not getting a new CD is not going to
19 my life. I can live with those kinds of problems. But losing someone I love would
20 make my life miserable.
9/11 showed me just what I am.
| 小题2: | | A．unfair | B．uncomfortable | C．unbelievable | D．uncertain |
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| 小题3: | | A．happen | B．occur | C．strike | D．unfold |
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| 小题4: | | A．lives | B．families | C．houses | D．friends |
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| 小题5: | | A．curtains | B．buildings | C．gates | D．bedrooms |
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| 小题6: | | A．seats | B．planes | C．corners | D．streets |
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| 小题7: | | A．believing | B．thinking | C．caring | D．knowing |
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| 小题9: | | A．puzzled | B．severe | C．dirty | D．desperate |
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| 小题10: | | A．hidden | B．found | C．trapped | D．placed |
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| 小题11: | | A．hit | B．surprised | C．rewarded | D．told |
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| 小题12: | | A．cooled | B．dropped | C．ran | D．passed |
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| 小题13: | | A．happened | B．compared | C．related | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．relationship | B．problem | C．need | D．fate |
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| 小题15: | | A．persuaded | B．reminded | C．taught | D．informed |
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| 小题17: | | A．story | B．doubt | C．chance | D．plan |
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| 小题18: | | A．ever | B．once | C．enough | D．again |
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| 小题19: | | A．end | B．save | C．spare | D．break |
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| 小题20: | | A．rather | B．truly | C．probably | D．frequently |
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