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Passage Two
Yesterday, a man named Edwin saved two 12-years-old boys in San Francisco Bay. Yesterday afternoon, a group of party guests had gathered at the edge of the picnic area, screaming and pointing at something floating in San Francisco Bay. As Edwin ran to investigate, he soon saw what was wrong: A couple of kids in a rowboat were caught in the current and being pulled out to sea.
(13) The two boys, Christian and Jack, who had been at the party earlier, climbed into an eight-foot boat and began rowing out to take back a football. Unfortunately, a beach umbrella caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for the elements and spun helplessly in circles. "We were crying and screaming at each other to keep rowing," says Christian.
(14) Edwin, 34, a former lifeguard, now an executive at a renewable-energy company, recalls "Everything went quiet in my head, I was trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line." Then Edwin stripped off his clothes and jumped into the frigid water. (15) After 30 minutes of battling the current, he was about a mile from his starting point and close enough to yell to the boys, "Take down the umbrella!" Christian wrestled with the tangle. Finally, he uncoiled the knotted cords and freed the umbrella. Then Edwin was able to catch up and climb aboard the boat. "We're going to get back," he told them.
13. Why did the two boys climb into a boat and begin rowing?
14. What do we know about Edwin?
15. What did Edwin tell the boys to do before reaching them?
文章二
昨天，一位名叫埃德温的男子在旧金山湾救了两名12岁的男孩子。昨天下午，一群聚会的客人聚集在野餐区域的边缘，喊叫着指向旧金山湾里漂浮的某些东西。埃德温前去查看时，他很快就知道发生了什么：划艇上的两名小孩被困在激流里，卷向大海。
这两个小孩，克里斯汀和杰克，本来在参加聚会，他们爬进一艘八英尺的船并开始奋力划船，为了取回他们的足球。不幸的是，一把遮阳伞被风刮走并把划艇拖到了开阔水域。两个孩子慌忙中试图把划艇划向岸边。但是他们的力量敌不过恶劣的天气，只能无助地在原地打转。克里斯汀说“我们当时哭着尖叫着让对方继续划船。”
埃德温，34岁，曾是一名救生员，现在是一家再生能源公司的总经理，他回忆说“我当时很冷静，我在想怎么样能直接游到两个孩子身边去。”然后埃德温脱下衣服跳进了冰冷的海水中。在游了30分钟后，埃德温到达距两个男孩大约一英里的地方，足以向他们喊话，他说：“把遮阳伞放下来！”克里斯汀在混乱中尽量应对。最后，他解开绳索摆脱了遮阳伞。然后埃德温就追上去爬上了划艇。他告诉他们，“我们要回去了。”
问题13 两个男孩为什么爬上划艇开始划船？
问题14 关于埃德温，我们知道什么？
问题15 埃德温在接触到两个小孩之前告诉他们了什么？
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