英语听力：劫机.Skyjack! Chapter 10

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　　Chapter¹ Ten

       In the plane, Carl and Harold sat on the floor by the door. They were handcuffed together with Harold’s handcuffs. The girl hijacker² stood watching with her gun. The bearded³ man was in the captain’s cabin⁴, and the young man in a black shirt was watching the other passengers. Harold touched his head with his hand. There was blood in his hair.

　　“How do you feel, my young friend?” Carl asked.

　　“It hurts.” Harold answered, “And I can’t see well.

　　“This man needs a doctor!” Carl said to the young girl angrily.

　　She laughed, “Uh, that’s your wife’s problem, not mine!” she said, “If our brothers come, he will get a doctor. If they don’t, he won’t need one.” She pointed⁵ her gun at Harold’s head and laughed again. She wasn’t at all nervous now.

　　Carl felt angry. He was angry with the hijackers, and he was angry with himself, because he had not moved fast to help Harold. It was good to be angry. When he was angry, he did not feel so afraid. “How old are you?” he asked the girl.

　　She did not answer. “I ask you a question.” he said, “How old are you? eighteen? nineteen? You are not old really, are you? You are just a child!”

　　The girl’s face went red. “I’m twenty!” she said angrily, “I’m not a child!”

　　“You look like a child.” Carl said, “You are only two years older than my daughter. Why are you doing this?”

　　The girl laughed. She didn’t look at his eyes. “Why? You don’t understand.”

　　“I don’t think you understand what you are doing.” Carl said, “None of the people in this plane have hurt you! We are all innocent⁶! The man you killed! He wasn’t a spy⁷! He was just an American business man! You have never seen any of us before! Why do you want to kill us?”

　　The girl looked worried and angry. She pointed the gun straight at Carl’s head. “I don’t want to kill you.” she said, “I want your government, your wife to set our brothers free.”

　　“Yes, I know.” said Carl carefully. He watched the gun and the girl’s face, but he was not really afraid because he was still angry. He argued with the girl as though he was arguing with his daughter. “But remember what your brothers did! They tried to put a bomb⁸ on a plane! They wanted to kill innocent people like us! Why?”

　　“You are not innocent.” said the girl, “No one is innocent. People like you and your wife, and that American, you have money and power, and you take it from my people, from us! Do you know how I lived when I was a child? Ten people in one room with no bath, no water, nothing! My parents had no jobs, no passports⁹, no country, nothing! We lived in a town with ten thousand others. But ten kilometers away, there were rich people like you with big beautiful houses, fine cars, fine clothes! They were all innocent people like you! I tell you no one is innocent!” She was shouting now and nearly crying. There were tears¹⁰ in her eyes.

　　Carl and Harold watched the gun carefully. “Poor girl” Carl thought, “Poor little murderers”

　　The bearded man came out of the captain’s cabin, put his hand on the girl’s arm. “Stop it, little flower!” he said, “Don’t talk to them. That’s not your job.” Then he hit Carl in the face. “Keep your mouth shut!” he said, “Think about your wife instead. Do you see the time? I think she has forgotten you!”

　　Carl groaned¹¹ and held his mouth with his hand. There was blood in his mouth, and one of his teeth was broken¹². Then he looked at his watch. It was 2:23. Seven minutes left. Then the half hour was over. “I’m sorry, my friend.” he whispered¹³ to Harold, “You try fighting, I try talking, but it didn’t work. I think this may be our last journey¹⁴.”

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