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  3. In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The【B1】______ promised that it would not happen again. Pes

In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The【B1】______ promised that it would not happen again. Pes

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问题    In November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure. The【B1】______ promised that it would not happen again. Pessimists were certain that it would occur again within five years at the latest. In July 1977, there was a repeat performance which, produced varying degrees of【B2】______ throughout the city of eight million people. In 1965, the failure occurred in the cool autumn and at a time of【B3】______ . In 1977, the disaster was much more serious because it came when un-employment was high and the city was suffering from one of its worst heat waves.
   In 1965, there was little crime or looting during the darkness, and fewer than a hundred people【B4】______ .In 1977, hundreds of stores were broken into and looted. Looters【B5】______ shop windows and helped themselves to【B6】______ , clothes or television sets. Nearly 4,000 people were arrested but far more disappeared into the darkness of the night. The number of policemen【B7】______  was quite【B8】______ and they wisely【B9】_________________________ .
    Hospitals had to treat hundreds of people cut by glass from shop windows.【B10】_________________________ .
    The vast majority of New Yorkers, however, were not involved in looting.【B11】___________________________ . For twenty-four hours, New York realized how helpless it was without electricity.
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答案They helped strangers, distributed candles and batteries, and tried to survive in a nightmare world without traffic light, refrigerators, elevators, water and electrical power.
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