大学英语六级考试巅峰训练一本通 Test6

[25:11.13]the city was suffering from one of its worst heat waves.
[25:14.48]In 1965, there was little crime or looting during the
[25:17.02]darkness, and fewer than a hundred people were arrested.
[25:20.47]In 1977, hundreds of stores were broken into and looted.
[25:24.43]Looters smashed shop windows and
[25:26.14]helped themselves to jewelry, clothes or television sets.
[25:29.74]Nearly 4,000 people were arrested
[25:31.67]but far more disappeared into the darkness of the night.
[25:34.89]The number of policemen available was quite inadequate
[25:37.39]and they wisely refrained from using their guns against mobs
[25:40.16]which far outnumbered them and included armed men.
[25:43.41]Hospitals had to treat hundreds of people cut by
[25:45.48]glass from shop windows.
[25:47.74]Banks and most businesses remained closed the next day.
[25:50.68]The blackout started at 9:30 p.m., when lightning hit and
[25:54.61]knocked out vital cables.
[25:56.21]Many stores were thus caught by surprise.
[25:59.37]The vast majority of New Yorkers, however,
[26:01.22]were not involved in looting.
[26:02.81]They helped strangers, distributed candles and batteries,
[26:05.68]and tried to survive in a nightmare world without traffic
[26:08.28]lights, refrigerators, elevators, water and electrical power.
[26:12.64]For twenty four hours, New York realized how helpless
[26:14.86]it was without electricity.