文档介绍：prehension 英语阅读理解
Self-introduction
prehension, are you ready?
A Builder’s Story
Thank you for visiting me. The doctor says I must not speak. So I’m writing to tell you what happened.
I was working alone at the top of a tall building. I needed to move 200 kilos of bricks down to the ground, so I decided to use a pulley. First, I walked down the ground and tied the other end of the rope to my van. Then, I went back up and put all the bricks into the pulley box.
Then I went down again and untied the rope. I held the rope in my hands because I wanted to let the heavy box down slowly. But this was a mistake because the bricks weighed 200 kilos, and I weigh only 70 kilos. So the bricks were heavier than me. They came down very fast, and I went up very fast.
I was half way up when I met the 200 kilos of ing down. Luckily, the bricks broke only one of my arms, so I could hold the rope with the other arm.
Then my head hit the pulley at the top. At the same time, the box hit the ground. The box broke and the bricks fell out.
Without any bricks, the box weighed only 20 kilos. I was heavier than the empty box. So I began to go down.
Half way down, I met the ing up. This was a good thing because, although it broke my left leg, it slowed my fall. So when I hit the ground, I broke only three bones in my back and neck.
I lay there, looking up at the sky and the empty box high above me. And then I made my second mistake: I let the rope go from my hand. The box was heavier than the rope. So it came down on me and broke my other leg.
The doctor says I’ll be fine in about twelve weeks!
Choose a, b or c
1. The builder who wrote the note to his friends ______.
a. is at work b. is in hospital c. is on holiday
2. The builder wrote a note because he must not move his _______.
a. hands b. arms c. mouth
3. The builder needed to move some bricks ________.
a. into his van b. down to the ground c. but he couldn’t
4. The builder didn’t _____ the bricks.
a. weigh as much as b. try to mo