Unit 5 课时作业21-【红对勾讲与练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第一册(人教版2019)

UNIT 4　 NATURAL DISASTERS 课时作业 21 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　阅读理解 A CALGARY,CANADA—It was one of the most important phone calls Bruce Burrell has ever received, a call warning that a flood was headed Calgary􀆳s way. “ I got a phone call about five in the morning on Thursday from Len McCharles, who was on watch at the time, and he said ‘ there has been big flooding in Canmore and it􀆳s heading this way’,” said Burrell, the head of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency. “ I got up immediately, turned on the morning news, saw the pictures from Canmore and then called McCharles back. I said ‘open the Emergency Operations Centre’ . ” Burrell was in the EOC for 48 hours straight and it wasn􀆳t until Burrell left the centre for the first time that the disaster hit him. “Once you step outside and you actually see it and hear it, it paints a completely different picture from what you thought you would be dealing with. ” Calgary firefighters came to help the Calgarians who were influenced by floodwaters. Keal Prince, captain of the Calgary Fire Department, remembers how a young boy lost his finger while helping a woman remove debris (瓦砾) out of her house. “As his finger got cut off, it went into a fully loaded dumpster (装好的垃圾箱),” Prince said. “People had worked for hours to get the dumpster loaded and now they􀆳re working tirelessly, quickly to unload that dumpster, looking for that finger. ” “We had to remove a lot of debris to find that finger. Luckily, the finger was found and it was reattached