Without Hesitation

On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking the streets of New York, a city she 【小题1】（move) to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason 【小题2】 (be) dissatisfied with the city “ she said.

At the City Hall station, she settled onto a bench. It was just after 2 p.m. Only a few people were at the station . A man leaned against a pillar （柱）, the way anyone might, 【小题3】（wait) for the train. The stillness was interrupted by an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic saw the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks.

The man who had fallen was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help.

“I don’t know 【小题4】 these men got the quickness,” Tulic said. “The man fell was about six foot tall. He was kind of 【小题5】 (jam) in the tracks. It was frightening to know that the train was coming.”

On the tracks, the unconscious man was held up to a sitting position by the three men, who then lifted him from below to others who pulled him from above and rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers 【小题6】 (rescue) by helping hands. 【小题7】 they were all clear, the train pulled in. “People getting off the train walked around this unconscious man,” Peterson said. He was not, however, alone. Two of the men 【小题8】 had jumped onto the platform were holding his hands. “They were saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be fine,’” Tulic said. “This was an additional layer of goodness.”

The ambulance arrived, and the man was taken to a local hospital 【小题9】 serious but non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

“That is the 【小题10】 (great) thing,” Tulic said. “The infrastructure （基础建设） in this city of millions is the people themselves providing, being there for others. Without even knowing the person, who he is. It was beautiful to see.”

A great fire has destroyed the old cathedral (大教堂) of Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) in Paris, one of France’ s 【小题1】(famous) landmarks.

Thousands of people gathered in the streets around the cathedral, watching the flames in silence. Some of them could be seen crying. Watching such a famous old building 【小题2】(destroy) is extremely 【小题3】 (shock) to any French person.

No other site represents France like Notre Dame Cathedral, 【小题4】 receives almost 13 million visitors each year, more than the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower, is little more than a century old while Notre Dame Cathedral 【小题5】 (stand) tall above Paris since the 1200s. It has given 【小题6】 (it) name to one of the country’s literary masterpieces. Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (《钟楼怪人》) is known 【小题7】the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris.

The three large rose windows have been destroyed 【小题8】 the fire. Fortunately, the main structure, 【小题9】(include) the two bell towers, has been saved. Also the most 【小题10】(value) cultural relics have survived.

On 20 December, a series of huge waves caused by 【小题1】 undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore and left thousands 【小题2】 (die) . Luckily, due to a ten-year-old girl's basic knowledge of tsunamis, Goldshore Beach became the only local beach 【小题3】 (survive) the disaster without any loss of life.

On that day, people were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, enjoying the warm sea air and the soft wind that brushed their hair 【小题4】 something odd happened. The water was frothy, like the bubbles on the top of a beer. It wasn't calm, instead, it was just coming in and in. 【小题5】 (see) this, the little girl named Sabrina realized that these were the 【小题6】   (sign) of an approaching tsunami. Though 【小题7】 (frighten), she kept her head and warned her parents and a safety officer 【小题8】 the danger. At last, the beach was 【小题9】 (rapid ) cleared of people just before the huge waves 【小题10】 (crash) into the coast.