tailieunhanh - New english file upper intermediate student's book part 7

Small tables are placed in a line and the women sit down at the one which has been given to them. They stay at their table all evening. The men take it in turns to sit next to each woman and have a very quid conversation. | A When the plane hit the World Trade Center on 11th September 2001 Elia Zedeno was working on the 73rd floor. She heard an explosion and felt the building actually .nove as if it might fall over. Zedeno first shouted out What s happening You might expect that hei next instinct was to run. But she had the opposite reaction. What I really wanted was for someone to scream back Everything is OK Don t worry. Luckily at least one of Zedeno s coueagues responded differently. He screamed Get out of the building she remembers now. Years later she still thinks about that command. My question is whaf Would I have done if that person had said nothing Even then Zedeno still did not immediately run. First she reached for her bag and then she started walking in circles. I was looking for something to take with me. I remember I took my bock Then I kept looking around for other stuff to take. I felt as if I was in a trance. When she finally left she went slowly. It s strange because the sound of the explosion and the way the building shook should have made me go faster. But Zedeno made it to safety. Experts have estimated that at least another 130 people would have got out of the World Trade Center aiivc if they hao tried to leave the building sooner. B On march 27 1977 a Pan Am 747 which was waiting to take off from Tenerife airport collided with a Dutch KLM 747 that was landing in rhe fog. It was the worst air crash in history. Everyone on the KLM plane was killed but 62 passengers on the Pan Am plane survived. Many more would have survived if they had got off the plane immediately. One of the survivors was 65-year-old Paul Heck. He led his wife Fioy towards the exit and they got out just before the plane caught fire just 60 seconds after the collision. Why Paul Hcck and not others In the hours just before the crash Paul did something highly unusual. While he was waiting for the plane to take off he studied the 747 s safety diagram. He looked for the nearest exit and he pointed .