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摘要
Children often have more sense than their elders. This simple truth was proved ratherdramatically during a civil defence exercise in a small town in Canada. Most of the people in thetown were asked to take part in the exercise during which they had to pretend that their cityhad been 1 . Air-raid warnings were 2 and thousands of people went into special airraid shelters. Doctors and nurses remained above ground while police went around the streets 3 anyone tried to leave the shelters too soon.
The police did not have much to do because the citizens took the exercise seriously. They 4 underground for twenty minutes and waited for the warnings to sound again. Onleaving the air-raid shelters, they saw that doctors and nurses were busy. A great manypeople had volunteered to 5 the persons who were injured or dead. Theatrical make-upand artificial blood had been used to make the injuries look 6 . A lot of people were lying"dead"in the streets. The living helped to carry the dead and wounded to special stations.
A child of six was 7 by two adults. The child 8 to be dead. With theatrical make-up on his face, he looked as if he had died of shock. Some people were so moved by the 9that they began to cry. However, the child suddenly sat up and a doctor asked him to commenthis death. The child looked around for a moment and said, "I think they are all crazy !"
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