“Ifailedtoprotectyou.”Thatwasthemessagepostedonlineb...

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“I failed to protect you.” That was the message posted online by Du Yijun’s boy friend. He was with the 21-year-old Fudan University student as she died in the crush of the New Year's Eve crowd on the Bund.

Du was one of the 36 people who died that night when a holiday celebration ____41___ into a terrible tragedy. Authorities say overcrowding and the ____42____ of the police to control the crowds were the main reasons why it happened.

For the last three New Year’s Eve celebrations, a light show on the Bund had ____43___ large crowds and a large police presence, but this year the light show was cancelled and there were fewer police on hand. But the crowds came ____44___. About 300,000 people were on the Bund by 8:30 that evening and more kept ____45___until all hell broke loose around 11:30.

For some unknown reason, on a stairway ____46___ up to the riverfront viewing platform, a sense of ____47____ overtook the crowd and they began to stampede(蜂擁) people ____48___ on the stairs and were stepped ____49____ to death. More lives would have been ____50___had it not been for a group of brave young men who urged the crowd to ____51___.

Crowd ____52___ like the one on the Bund happen all over the world and they are becoming more ____53___rding to one study, human stampedes have more than doubled in the past two decades. In recent years, hundreds of people have died at ____54____ festivals, football games and rock ____55___— all caught in the crush of panicked crowds.

In Shanghai, authorities have reacted to the Bund tragedy by cancelling or scaling back big events. But this isn't really necessary. Better planning and better crowd ___56___can ensure safe celebrations.

___57___, if you're going to a place where there will be a big crowd, you should take notice of where the exits are and, if the crowd becomes large, ___58___ away from the center. And most ___59___, if the crowd seems too big and makes you feel uncomfortable, just leave. No celebration is ___60___ losing your life.

41.	A. made	B. got	C. turned	D. broke
42.	A. justice	B. failure	C. exchange	D. disappearance
43.	A. attracted	B. invented	C. removed	D. promised
44.	A. anyway	B. always	C. ever	D. sometimes
45.	A. pushing	B. calling	C. arriving	D. occurring
46.	A. causing	B. leading	C. serving	D. reaching
47.	A. shame	B. loss	C. security	D. panic
48.	A. hit	B. dropped	C. buried	D. fell
49.	A. completely	B. heavily	C. publicly	D. incorrectly
50.	A. complained	B. removed	C. lost	D. passed
51.	A. run away	B. stand up	C. put away	D. calm down
52.	A. campaigns	B. disasters	C. atmospheres	D. damages
53.	A. frequent	B. major	C. enormous	D. vast
54.	A. quiet	B. nervous	C. religious	D. serious
55.	A. music	B. gallery	C. concerts	D. locations
56.	A. cry	B. cheers	C. gather	D. control
57.	A. Therefore	B. However	C. Thus	D. Moreover
58.	A. move	B. jump	C. push	D. slide
59.	A. absolutely	B. hopefully	C. sadly	D. importantly
60.	A. worth	B. equal	C. valuable	D. popular