2023年江苏省扬州市中考 – 阅读理解C

That night, July 11, 2022, Nick Bostic was driving down the streets of Lafayette, Indiana, when he found a two-story house was on fire.
2022年7月11日晚，尼克·博斯蒂克在印第安纳州拉斐特的街道上开车时，发现一栋两层楼的房子着火了。

Flames were climbing up the front porch. Without pausing for a moment to think about the danger, Bostic stopped his car and ran from the back door into the burning building, which belongs to the Barrett family.
火焰正沿着前廊向上蔓延。博斯蒂克停下车，没有丝毫犹豫是不是有危险，从后门跑进了燃烧的大楼，这是属于巴雷特家族的。

Bostic had just started climbing the stairs when he looked up and saw four faces appear from a room at the top of the stairs and look down at him, their eyes wide. “Your house is on fire, you need to go!” Bostic yelled.
博斯蒂克刚开始爬楼梯，他抬头一看，看到四张脸从楼梯顶端的一个房间里出现，低头看着他，眼睛睁得大大的。“你们的房子着火了，你得走！”博斯蒂克喊道。

Bostic hurried the four girls into the fresh air. “Anybody else in there?” Bostic asked.
博斯蒂克赶紧把四个女孩带到新鲜空气中。“里面还有其他人吗？”博斯蒂克问。

“Kaylani is in there! We can’t find her!” Seionna, the eldest of the girls, screamed referring to her six-year-old sister. Without hesitating, Bostic ran back inside.
“凯拉尼在里面！我们找不到她！”女孩中最大的Seionna指着她六岁的妹妹尖叫道。博斯蒂克毫不犹豫地跑回屋里。

By now, the whole side of the house was in flames. Bostic went upstairs. He searched every bedroom. No kid. The smoke was thick now. He lifted his T-shirt, trying to cover his mouth and nose when he heard the sound of crying, from the dark smoke below.
到目前为止，房子的整个侧面都着火了。博斯蒂克上楼去了。他搜查了每一间卧室。没有孩子。现在烟很浓。他举起T恤，试图捂住嘴和鼻子，这时他听到了下面黑烟中的哭声。

Bostic felt about in the blackness and heat, moving downstairs toward the sound. Then suddenly Kaylani was in front of him. Bostic quickly lifted the girl into his arms. Where is the front door?! Bostic remembered seeing a window on the side of the house where the fire hadn’t reached.
博斯蒂克在黑暗和炎热中摸索着，朝楼下的声音走去。突然，凯拉尼出现在他面前。博斯蒂克迅速将女孩抱入怀中。前门在哪里？！博斯蒂克记得看到房子侧面有一扇窗户，火还没有烧到。

Bostic climbed back up, made it to the room and broke the glass, Kaylani still in his arms.
博斯蒂克爬了起来，来到房间，打碎了玻璃，凯拉尼还在他的怀里。

Bostic and Kaylani looked down at the open grassy space. The girl said, “ l don't want to jump out the window.” He was thinking the exact same thing.
博斯蒂克和凯拉尼低头看着开阔的草地。女孩说：“我不想跳窗。”他也这样想。

But they had little choice. The flames were inching ever closer. Holding Kaylani tightly in one arm, Bostic ran forward and threw himself out of the window. He managed to land on the other shoulder. Kaylani was almost unhurt.
但他们别无选择。火焰越来越近了。博斯蒂克一只胳膊紧紧地抱着凯拉尼，向前跑去，把自己扔出了窗外。他设法落在另一个肩膀上。凯拉尼几乎没有受伤。

Days passed. Bostic woke up from first-degree burns to his leg and arm, He felt like he’d just done what anyone would have done in that situation. But outside the hospital, the story of Nick Bostic was already spreading. He was a hero-the pizza man who had run into a burning building not once, but twice.
日子一天天过去。博斯蒂克从腿部和手臂的一级烧伤中醒来，他觉得自己刚刚做了在那种情况下任何人都会做的事情。但在医院外，尼克·博斯蒂克的故事已经传开了。他是一个英雄——一个吃披萨的人，他不止一次，而是两次闯入一座燃烧的大楼。