山东省德州市高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解精练精析26.docVIP

山东德州2013届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精练精析26 (A) Somewhere on the other side of the world, a small group of workers is busy with a life-or-death struggle. This battle isn’t about self-protection, as admirable as that might be. By staying to face the radiation and fire at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station following the earthquake and then tsunami（海啸）in Japan, the 50 or so workers may have already shortened their lives. They knew that would happen. And yet they stay, working in near-total darkness, pumping seawater onto exposed nuclear fuel in hopes that they can prevent thousands of tons of radi