基础英语2 Unit4.ppt

Warming-up Questions: How do you define a hero? Which characters should one obtain to be a hero? Could you name out the famed heroes (Chinese/ foreign)? At 3:59 the plane _________ as it took off and tried to ____ altitude. It cleared two of the bridges on the Potomac River, but was _____ altitude. The ____ and passengers knew they were in trouble before it ______ the 14th Street Bridge and it ____ in half as it slammed猛撞 through cars and railings (栏杆) then _______ into the cold, icy, dark waters. Moments later only the tail section remained _____, 79 people were aboard Flight 90, six were to ______ the crash, but only five would live. Huddled together in the cold icy waters, the survivors waited for the ______ helicopter to arrive. Treading water, the survivors ____ on, some ____ broken arms and legs, two with _______ lungs caused from the ______. “We’re all going to die,” someone said. Aboard Flight 90 was Arland K. Williams Jr., who always sat in the tail section of the plane, “the _____ part of the plane,” he said. Not long before, Williams had just discussed his ________ with the woman he loved, “I think we’re going to marry soon.” It was 4:20 before the helicopter arrived at the _____, dropping the first lifeline ________ Bert Hamilton 100 yards to shore. It would be ten minutes before the helicopter returned, _______ the line to Williams. He caught it, but instead of ________ it around himself, he passed the line to flight ________ Kelly Duncan, the only crew member to survive. She took the line, wrapped it under her arms and held on _____ as she was carried to shore. With room for only one helicopter at a time between bridges, it returned with two lifelines, and again Williams caught it and handed it off to ___ another survivor, Joe Stiley, the most _______ injured passenger. Tirado , who also _____ to Stiley and her life line, however, _________, in pain and shock, soon lost her ___ and plunged back into the cold icy waters of the Potomac. Rescuers aga