When rescue workers pulled Cao Jianqiang out of the rubble, the first thing he did was to cover his eyes against the sun, which he had not seen in 75 hours. then, overjoyed that his life had been spared, he gave a big wave to the cheering bystanders.
'May 12 drawned sunny and temperature in hanwang, Cao recalls. he breezed through his morning classes in the school and enjoyed a lunch of fried rice before heading for his 2o' clock maths class on the fourth flour.
At 2:28, china's worst earthquake in three decades upended his world, the time was frozen on the face of the broken town clock. As the shaking intensified, he crept under his desk on the advice of his teacher. it would prove to be a fateful decision.
Within seconds, the ceiling stared falling; then, the desk started sliding across the collapsing floor. he grabbed a leg of the desk and held on as the building went in to free fall. Within seconds, he was buried alive.
As the dust settled, he heard cries for help, then silence. Slowly, cao took stock. he lay face down., crouching, with his legs pinned under a crunk of concrete. he soon realized that someone was nearby. they introduced themselves in the dark. Gou Ke, also 18, had been in a classroom, one floor below. they hadn't met previously, but having someone six feet away was an enormous comfort.
Gou had a cellphone. He tried to text send messages, but the services was down. in a bid to boost morale, he played some downloaded music from his phone into the the void.
In the pitch dark, Cao cleared a little more space by moving small pieces of concrete and brick. he found it hard to gauge the passage of time. Periodically, he'd sleep, getting some relief from the claustrophobia and difficulty of his predicament.
upon awakening, however, he'd assume a day had passed when it was probably only a few hours. slowly, his legs were growing increasingly numb.
Cao was extremely hungry and unbelievably thirsty. On Thursday afternoon, his fate finally changed. After he had heard emergency workers for hours, light appeared from a hole, a yard above his head. His throat was too parched to shout down a container of rehydration solution. After an agonizing wait, he was on his way to a waiting ambulance.
On the basis of your reading of the above extract, answer the following question in 30 to 40 words each:
(a) What proved to be a fateful decision for Cao? How?
(b) How did Cao try to comfort himself?
(c) What happened On Thursday?
(d) Who did Cao find in the rubble ? What did the other person do to boost their morale?
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