1、UNIT 1Text comprehension: ⅠC Ⅱ 1.F 2.F 3. T 4.F Ⅲ 1. The answer to this question can be found in the first paragraph , in which the author implies that for Mayblum the WTC was a symbol of power---- for its height and steadiness, and the force of storms was
2、actually nothing to the WTC2.The author means that the survival of the people inside the WTC would simply depend on their locations , i.e. where they were at that moment . 3.Refer to Paragraph 9,13,19,and29 .Ramos went to help the panicked workers into a stairwell(on
3、 the 78th floor),helped the heavyset man down one more flight to an elevator (on the 53rd floor),and reassured the man he would be staying with him (on the 36th floor). 4.They helped the heavyset man 17floors down the building .They met him on 53rd floor and their
4、attempt to descend ended on the 36th floor. 5.The sentence implies that Ramos ‘s wife refused to believe that Ramos did not make it out of the building. Ⅳ 1.On that morning thousands of people in the WTC were thrown ,all of a sudden into a condition of terrible suffe
5、ring and uncertainty. Mayblum was one of them. 2. It seemed that the tremendous sound of the collapse of the South Tower destroyed the man’s hope of climbing down the remaining stairs ,and thus took away his remaining energy. Vocabulary Ⅰ1.burning 2. something ,
6、a situation of a circumstance ,that is dependent on one’s location in the building 3. in an intermittent manner 4. help you 5. Things are satisfactory up to this point. Ⅱ1. scoffed 2. dilemma 3. collapsed 4.pandemonium 5. reassuring 6. rumble 7. glancing a
