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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，一位名叫埃德溫的男子在舊金山灣救了兩名12歲的男孩子。昨天下午，一群聚會的客人聚集在野餐區域的邊緣，喊叫著指向舊金山灣里漂浮的某些東西。埃德溫前去查看時，他很快就知道發生了什么：劃艇上的兩名小孩被困在激流里，卷向大海。
這兩個小孩，克里斯汀和杰克，本來在參加聚會，他們爬進一艘八英尺的船并開始奮力劃船，為了取回他們的足球。不幸的是，一把遮陽傘被風刮走并把劃艇拖到了開闊水域。兩個孩子慌忙中試圖把劃艇劃向岸邊。但是他們的力量敵不過惡劣的天氣，只能無助地在原地打轉。克里斯汀說“我們當時哭著尖叫著讓對方繼續劃船。”
埃德溫，34歲，曾是一名救生員，現在是一家再生能源公司的總經理，他回憶說“我當時很冷靜，我在想怎么樣能直接游到兩個孩子身邊去。”然后埃德溫脫下衣服跳進了冰冷的海水中。在游了30分鐘后，埃德溫到達距兩個男孩大約一英里的地方，足以向他們喊話，他說：“把遮陽傘放下來！”克里斯汀在混亂中盡量應對。最后，他解開繩索擺脫了遮陽傘。然后埃德溫就追上去爬上了劃艇。他告訴他們，“我們要回去了。”
問題13 兩個男孩為什么爬上劃艇開始劃船？
問題14 關于埃德溫，我們知道什么？
問題15 埃德溫在接觸到兩個小孩之前告訴他們了什么？
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