11 workers killed in building blast
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Eleven workers building an express railway between Shanghai and Beijing were killed in an explosion yesterday morning. The explosion was allegedly caused by aluminum1 powder.

At 1:45 am, the middle part of a U-shaped dormitory building, about 2 km away from the construction site in Huiji village, Lucheng town of Danyang, was blown up, killing2 11 and injuring 20. The dormitory is home to hundreds of workers.

"There was a huge bang, jolting3 us awake," said a 37-year-old worker surnamed Feng from Henan province who lives in the left wing of the building.

"There was a small fire and we rushed into the debris4 to pull out people," he told China Daily yesterday.

Police and firemen arrived about 40 minutes later, he said.

A local villager surnamed Wang said the whole village heard the explosion. "The glass windows of neighboring houses were shattered to pieces and a window pane5 of another house about 10 to 20 m away dropped as well," he said.

Zhang Liugou, director of the local public security bureau, said that the explosion tore down a part of the building, home to 48 workers, mostly from Guizhou province.

Seventeen workers were asked to step out of the building to haul iron bars to the construction site minutes before the explosion. Eleven people, including a contractor6, died on the site or soon after being rushed to local hospitals.

Ye Wenzao, another worker from Taizhou, said most of the 48 housed in the site began working only about 20 days ago. "They were carpenters," he said.

Xiao Quan, the provincial7 government's spokesman, said that the 20 injured were in stable condition.

"Aluminum powder left in the building caused the explosion," Xiao said. "The building used to be an aluminum producing factory." Xiao said that the explosion might have been caused by humidity or the substance catching8 fire. "We are still investigating the cause," he said.

The building housed a garment factory after the aluminum plant moved. It was turned into an apartment for workers after the garment factory moved from it.

It was not clarified if traces of powdered aluminum remained in any other part of the building.

The excavation9 work was completed by 4 pm. Feng and his fellow workers did not move out. "We have not been asked to leave yet," he said. "But I am so afraid to have to sleep here now."

Questions:

1. What was the explosion allegedly caused by?

2. What province do most of the workers come from?

3. Before being turned into an apartment for workers, what two things was the building home to?

Answers:

1. Aluminum powder.

2. Guizhou.

3. A garment factory and an aluminum plant.



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1 aluminum 9xhzP     
n.(aluminium)铝
参考例句:
  • The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
  • During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段,它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。
2 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
参考例句:
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
3 jolting 5p8zvh     
adj.令人震惊的
参考例句:
  • 'she should be all right from the plane's jolting by now. “飞机震荡应该过了。
  • This is perhaps the most jolting comment of all. 这恐怕是最令人震惊的评论。
4 debris debris     
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
参考例句:
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
5 pane OKKxJ     
n.窗格玻璃,长方块
参考例句:
  • He broke this pane of glass.他打破了这块窗玻璃。
  • Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.他们呼出的水气,在冰冷的窗玻璃上形成一层雾。
6 contractor GnZyO     
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
参考例句:
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
7 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
参考例句:
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
8 catching cwVztY     
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
参考例句:
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
9 excavation RiKzY     
n.挖掘,发掘;被挖掘之地
参考例句:
  • The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
  • The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
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