1 . After an evening of overtime work with her colleagues at the office, Jill Bien, 48, boarded a bus bound for Chicago, where she lived. About 35 miles into the 90-mile trip, Jill felt the bus drive away onto the right shoulder (路肩) of 1-94. The bus scraped (擦挂) a concrete barrier, and then turned back into traffic.
“Stop the bus!” Jill yelled to the driver from her seat just behind him. But then she saw his seat was empty. The driver, James Rogers, 68, lay unconscious in the buss step. “Call 911!” Jill screamed, and with the bus rushing in and out of traffic at about 60 mph in an uncontrollable way, she leaped into the driver’s seat and grabbed the wheel.
“My life flashed before my eyes,” Jill says now. “Everyone on the bus was bouncing around; they were lying in the aisle (过道). I thought, I don’t want anybody to get hurt.” Jill carefully turned the bus onto the shoulder, bringing it to a stop.
“Thank God she got that bus over to the side” says Marge Borkowski, who was a passenger that night. “She’s my hero.” Emergency personnel arrived a few minutes later and took 11 of the bus’s 34 passengers to the hospital, where doctors treated them for minor injuries. When Jill returned home after the accident, she “burst out crying” she says. “I kept visualizing (眼前浮现) it.”
Despite anxiety and injuries, Jill boarded a bus back to the office two days later. “I didn’t want my fear to build up,” she said. Kenosha County policeman Dan Ruth, who was at the scene of the accident, told reporters he hadn’t witnessed an act more heroic than Jill’s in his 18 years on the job. “It could have been much, much worse,” he says.
1. Where was Jill Bien going on the bus after overtime work?| A．To the airport. | B．To the police station. |
| C．To her home in Chicago. | D．To the hospital in Las Vegas. |
| A．Her own life. | B．The bus’s problem. |
| C．The passengers’ safety. | D．The driver’s condition. |
| A．She still felt frightened with worry. | B．She enjoyed the thrilling experience. |
| C．She was proud of what she had done. | D．She was relieved to get minor injuries. |
| A．overreacting to the accident | B．lucky to have survived the accident |
| C．a model of courage and selflessness | D．a troublemaker and causes the accident |
| A．Overcome Your Fears | B．Who’s About to Drive |
| C．Why Just Her | D．Stop the Bus |
