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　　NBC News and news services

　　Updated：1∶15.pm．

　　ET Jan．9,2006

　　TALLMANSVILLE, W．Va．-Eleven miners who died in the Sago disaster could have walked out alive had they known that there was healthier air less than 2,000 feet away, the head of the mining company told NBC News in an interview aired on zMonday-exactly a week to the day that the men sat trapped in the mine awaiting rescuers who arrived too late for all but one survivor．

　”They were headed into an unknown,” International Coal Group CEO Ben Haield said．“They had no way of knowing how big, how disastrous the explosion was．In hindsight, if they had known that the smoke was only extremely dense in an area of perhaps 1,000 or 1,500 feet, yes they could have moved to fresh air, yes they could have survived, but they had no way of knowing that．”

　”It’s over two miles to the outside and they no doubt would have been concerned that they can’t walk through two miles of smoke,” he added．“If they had known that it was only 1,500 or 42,000 feet of smoke certainly they could have come on out and yes they could have been saved．”

　　Haield called it a tragedy that was”unavoidable and horribly sad” because the miners, even though they had breathing devices, did exactly what they had been taught to do：hunker down(蹲下)and wait for rescuers．

　　Crews did not know the location of the miners while they awaited rescue and had no way to communicate with them．

　　The men appeared to have died after about 10 hours and the rescuers only arrived after about 40 hours．Eleven men died awaiting rescue, one died in the blast that caused the disaster and a 13th survived．

(1)

Which of the following is the most suitable headline for this news report?

[　　]

A．

Mine explosion kills twelve．

B．

Fallen miners were not far from safety．

C．

International Coal Group CEO expresses condolences on(衰悼)death of miners．

D．

Fear of walking long distance leads to death．

(2)

The underlined word”dense” in Paragraph 4 means ________．

[　　]

A．

poisonous

B．

harmful

C．

light

D．

thick

(3)

The underlined paragraph implies that ________．

[　　]

A．

some safety knowledge may mislead victims in a particular situation

B．

all the trapped miners could have survived if they had not hunkered down

C．

to avoid similar tragedies, it is better not to teach miners what to do in case of danger

D．

the miners’ ignorance of proper safety measures lead to the tragedy

(4)

Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

[　　]

A．

One miner survived the accident by moving to fresh air on his own．

B．

The trapped miners did not walk out to safety because they could not tell their location．

C．

The only survivor was rescued around 40 hours after the explosion．

D．

Twelve miners died after sitting trapped in the mine for about 10 hours．

答案：1．B;2．D;3．A;4．C;
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