2016年12月英语六级考试听力短文模拟预测（3）

　　Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passageyou have just heard.

　　13

　　A.He was working at a bakery.

　　B.He was standing beside his car.

　　C.He was leaving the airport.

　　D.He was protesting airplane noise.

　　14

　　A.He was thirty-three years old.

　　B.His head was injured in the crash.

　　C.He was an inexperienced pilot.

　　D.He was unconscious when found.

　　15

　　A.The plane's electrical system didn't work after takeoff.

　　B.Everything but the wings of the plane was on fire.

　　C.The plane's wings were broken shortly after takeoff.

　　D.The plane's electrical system failed when landing.

　　Passage Two

　　On the way home from his job at a bakery inWainscott, New York, one August evening, CraigSchum, 33, stopped his car at the East HamptonAirport. A group was protesting airplane noise, and(13) Schum, who had kicked off his shoes, got outof the car.

　　(13) Within seconds, though, Schum saw something astonishing: A small plane dived andcrashed into the woods about 100 yards from the runway. "I don't remember making thedecision that I should go help out," he recalls. "I just started running."

　　Schum sprinted across the street barefoot, scaled a six-foot-high chain-link fence, and dashedabout 100 yards toward the woods. (14) When he got there, he discovered 51-year-old pilotStephen Bochter—his head bleeding— beside the burning plane. Bochter's passenger, hisfiancée, Kim Brillo, was on the ground, unconscious. "She had blood all over her," says Schum. "I thought she was dead."

　　Jack Gleeson, 17, a high school student working a summer job at the airport, caught up toSchum and, with Bochter's help, hoisted the chain-link fence and brought Brillo underneath it.Moments later, the entire plane exploded.

　　After the paramedics arrived, Bochter and Brillo, 34, were airlifted to a nearby hospital andtreated for cuts and bruises and Brillo's broken arm. (15) Bochter, an experienced pilot, latersaid that the plane's electrical system had failed shortly after takeoff. He had been attemptingto land at the East Hampton Airport when the plane began to nosedive. He managed to levelthe wings before crashing into the woods.

　　"Everything was on fire, and Schum came out of nowhere to save us," says Bochter. "We'reblessed to have lived through it."

　　13. What was Schum probably doing when the crash happened?

　　14. What do we know about the pilot from the passage?

　　15. According to the passage, what do we know about the plane?