Passage 7
学霸导读 英雄不只出现在电影中，日常生活中也有很多“平民英雄”。来看看下面这个关于“英雄”的故事吧。
“Fire! Fire!” What horrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, wooden house and my room was on the top f loor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and s 1 out into the passage. It was full of thick smoke.
I began to run， but as I was still only half awake， instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew t 2 and I could see f lames all around and the f loor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it， one of my feet was caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fell over was l 3 a bundle （ 捆 ） of clothes， and I picked it up to protect my face from smoke and heat. Just then the f loor gave way under me and I crashed to the f loor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a f laming doorway in front, put the bundle of clothes over my face and ran. The f ire around my feet burned me t 4 , but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry. I nearly dropped it in my s 5 . Then I saw a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed when she saw me and came running madly. “My baby! My baby!” she cried. The crowd cheered widely as she took the bundle out of my a 6 . I had some diff iculty in recognizing her. She was Mayor’s wife, and I had s 7 her baby. I was a hero.
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高频词汇
horrible /'hɒrəbl/ adj. 极坏的，恐怖的
passage /'pæsɪdʒ/ n. 走廊，通道
awake /ə'weɪk/ adj. 醒着的
opposite /'ɒpəzɪt/ adj. 对面的，相反的
f lame /f leɪm/ n. 火焰
bare /beə（r）/ adj. 裸露的
crash /kræʃ/ v. 碰撞，撞击
scream /skriːm/ v. 尖叫，大声叫