There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year-old was hanging out in a parking area underneath a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway in July when a car with three teenage girls inside rushed off a boat ramp and into the Pascagoula River. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. The driver, Evans would learn, had blindly followed wrong directions from her GPS.
It was around 2:30 a. m. by the time Evans got to the river’s edge. In the darkness, he could barely make out the girls clinging to the roof, the only part of the car still, barely, above water. But he could hear screaming.
Evans ripped off his shirt and shoes, tossed his phone down, then dived into the water, a river he knew alligators (鳄鱼) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, keeping her head above water, led her ashore.
Just then, a man called out. Police Officer Garry Mercer had arrived. He dived into the river to help another of the girls. But halfway back to shore, she panicked and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.
Evans jumped back into the water and helped them until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.
There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping water, struggling to stay afloat. And scared.
“I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’and I thought she was going to the dogs,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi.
“I just knew my last breath was coming,” Watson said. “My mind said, You’re slowly losing yourself.” She began to go under. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed me.”
The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans risked his life to save them. They’re alive, says his mother, Marquita Evans, because Corion Evans broke his curfew.
But she’s not mad, she told the Post. “He had a good reason.”
【小题1】According to paragraph 1, what can we know about the accident?| A．The three teenage girls were about to hang out when they dropped into the river. |
| B．The wrong navigation confused the driver and caused the accident. |
| C．The car drove about 20 feet from the land and stopped on the water. |
| D．The car crashed into the river while driving on a Moss Point, Mississippi, highway. |
| A．During the rescue, some alligators attacked them. |
| B．Evans saved the lives of the three girls and Officer Mercer. |
| C．The first two rescued girls can swim. |
| D．Seeing three girls who fell into the water, Evans called the police. |
| A．Dying. |
| B．Dangerous. |
| C．Awkward. |
| D．Nervous. |
| A．Indifferent. |
| B．Critical. |
| C．Proud. |
| D．Angry. |
