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Conditions were near perfect as parachutist Elizabeth Cheshire jumped from the twin-engine plane at 10,000 feet. The 22-year-old

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问题      Conditions were near perfect as parachutist Elizabeth Cheshire jumped from the twin-engine plane at 10,000 feet. The 22-year-old daughter of a war-time hero, Elizabeth had 60 jumps behind her.
     The weather was fine and the wind was well below the 10 mph (miles per hour) maximum allowed for jumping.
     Free-falling with eight other members of her parachute club, Elizabeth watched the Cambridge shire countryside spread out beneath her. At 2,000 feet she opened her parachute. Seconds later she had the most terrifying experience of her life. At 800 feet and right on target for the landing zone, a massive gust of wind picked her up and swept her away from the airfield near Pampisford Village. As she fought with the parachute strings to get back on course, a main road and lines of trees loomed up before her. Using every ounce of strength she managed to clear them. But then came the moment of horror. She saw herself heading straight for three 11,000 volt electrical power tines. Elizabeth crashed into the tines before she had time to think or decide anything. Came with it a tremendous flash and bang.
     Elizabeth, dazed but otherwise unhurt, found herself on the ground. She looked up. Her parachute was entangled around the cables.
     What happened is not exactly clear. But what is certain is that she missed death by inches. Had her body connected simultaneously with two of the cables, she would have been electrocuted in an instant. But it seemed her body bounced off one cable and her parachute pulled the three cables together and fused the lot.
     Elizabeth rose to her feet, calmly released herself from the harness and was able to walk away. Later at her home in Bristol, Elizabeth, a third-year law undergraduate, said: "My friends saw the flash, heard the bang and raced over. They were surprised to see me in one piece."
     Her mother, Sue Ryder, whose husband was a famous Second World War bomber pilot, said, "Elizabeth had a miraculous escape. We were enormously relieved. But she is a very competent parachutist and was so calm about it that she went on to stay with friends."
     Elizabeth, who has no intention of stopping parachuting, later discovered that her collision had fused the entire electrical supply in Pampisford.
     An Eastern Electricity Board spokesman said, "She is very lucky to be alive. If she had touched two of the cables simultaneously, she would have been killed without a doubt."
Which of the following statement is NOT tree?
选项 A、Elizabeth went straight back home after the accident.
B、Her friends didn’t expect that Elizabeth would come back unhurt.
C、The power supply of the area was cut off because of the accident.
D、Elizabeth would not give up parachute jumping in spite of the accident.
答案A
解析 本题考查是非判断。根据文章第六段第二句“Later at her home in Bristol”中的“later”可以判断，伊丽莎白在事故发生后并没有直接回家，故A 为最佳选项。选项B 与文章第六段最后一句“他们 (伊丽莎白的朋友)惊讶地看到我(伊丽莎白)毫发未损”表达的内容相符；选项C 与文章第八段最后一句：“她(伊丽莎白)此次跳伞碰撞事故将保险丝烧毁而中断电力供应”表达的内容相符；选项D 与文章第八段第一句“伊丽莎白并不打算停止跳伞”所表达的内容相符。
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