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  3. (1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts

(1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts

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问题     (1) I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard for five seasons. Whenever I could, I got shifts working the Point, which was known for its massive, spontaneous rip currents (离岸流).
    (2) Late in a shift, I’m working Tower 15. Two blocks to my right is another guard named Mike, working Tower 17. He calls me over the phone, "Hey, I got a couple kids. I gotta go give ’em a warning. Keep an eye on us."
    (3) I say, "Sure," and hang up.
    (4) Anytime you get out of your tower, you’re supposed to let somebody else know, in case a situation develops. As Mike hangs up the phone and grabs his buoy, a rip is snapped up under these two kids, and they’re getting sucked out. Mike sees it before it’s happening, and he’s running at full tilt toward the ocean. I scan the water. All I see is two small noses up and down in the choppy water.
    (5) I drop my binos and I call in and say, "Double rescue 17—he’s out, I’m going." Mike is already punching through the surf line. By now, the mother of the two kids realizes what’s happening. She’s on her feet and screaming. I start sprinting toward her, but before I’m even halfway there, Mike reaches the kids. Mike told me later that he had to reach down into the water to save them.
    (6) Mike swims sideways out of the rip current into the clear water and starts bringing them in. When I reach their mother, Mike’s in waist-deep water.
    (7) I turn to their mom and say, "Hey, it’s gonna be OK. They’re safe." I see the terror start to drain out of her.
    (8) Then she glances back and gets her first good look at Mike. And a crazy thing happens. I see a new kind of panic wash over her as though there’s some new, equally dangerous threat on her kids’ lives. She rushes up to Mike and snatches her kids and turns up the beach. Not even a thank-you.
    (9) Now, Mike had a rough upbringing. You can tell just by looking at him. He has a number of really frightening tattoos, and his shaved head shows the scar he got from a broken beer bottle. Maybe he wasn’t the friendliest guard on the beach. I admit, I didn’t really get along with Mike.
    (10) But everything he lacked in public relations skills, he more than made up for in lifesaving ability. If any other guard had been working 17 that night, including me, there’d be a very real chance that that mother wasn’t going home with both her kids. Maybe she didn’t know anybody who looked quite like Mike. He wasn’t her idea of a knight in shining armor.
    (11) That doesn’t change the fact that he had just rescued her kids. It was hard to understand what had happened in her heart.
    (12) That was over ten years ago. If you asked Mike about it today, I doubt he’d even remember. But I won’t forget. I promised myself I’d never let my own fear or prejudice prevent me from recognizing a hero.
Which of the following statements is CORRECT according to the passage?
选项 A、Working Tower 17 was extremely dangerous decades ago.
B、The kids were rescued thanks to their mother’s cautiousness.
C、A lifeguard leaving his Tower should be noticed.
D、The author keeps better lifesaving abilities than Mike.
答案C
解析 细节题。第2段Mike离塔时叫作者看紧他，且从第4段第1句可知，救生员在离开自己的救生塔时，必须告知其他救生员，以避免出状况，故选C项。A项在文中无依据，文章只是在说Mike的一次惊险救人经历，对象是Mike。而非“在17号救生塔工作”。由第5段第3句的by now可知，这位母亲直到救生员进行救援时才发现自己的孩子溺水，因此这位母亲并不是小心谨慎的。B项排除。第10段第2句，作者认为麦克的救生本领十分强，麦克以外的其他人未必能妥善应对当天发生的溺水事件。故排除D项。
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