Unit 10 Reports on Britain Under the Bombs炸弹轰炸下的英国Night _______ night, ______ the hot summer and early fall ______1940, a deep, steady voice ______ ______ the Atlantic Ocean ______ England ______ America, ______ ______ England's battle ______ survival ______ the waves ______ German bombers.1940年的炎夏和早秋，夜复一夜，一个深沉而平稳的声音飞越大西洋，从英国传到美国，讲述着英国在德国轰炸机轮番进攻下为生存而进行的战斗。
This ____________________, an American voice ________________________of North Carolina, ________________Edward R. Murrow, ______ of the European ________of the Columbia Broadcasting System.这个有力而平稳的声音，带一点北卡罗来纳口音的美国音，出自爱德华R.默罗之口，他是哥伦比亚广播公司驻欧人员的负责人。
"This is London," said Murrow, _____the bombs ____and flames _____on the streets of the city.当炸弹纷纷落下、火焰在全城街道四处蔓延的时候，默罗在播音：“这里是伦敦。
”His voice had __________________________, and a tone ____________, too—a feeling of _______that London ___________________, no matter what it had to ___________.他的声音里表达了一种为这个古老城市遭受的苦难而感到的悲痛，同时还传递着一种信心──无论要忍受怎样的苦难，伦敦将巍然屹立的信念。
It could not _______________.伦敦是摧不垮的。
The heavy raids began _____________________, and Nazi bombs _____________________ along England's Channel Coast.猛烈的空袭是在8月中旬开始的，纳粹的炸弹开始落在英吉利海峡的海岸线上。
The German bombers_________________ over the white cliffs of Dover, and England's Home Guard prepared to fight _____________, _____________________, and ______________, until the last Englishman died or the invaders _____________________.德国轰炸机在多佛尔海峡的白色峭壁上投下了黑色的阴影，英国的民防军准备在海滩、悬崖和山区战斗，直到最后一个英国人战死，或者侵略者被赶走为止。
Air Marshal Goering's bomber pilots were sure of their __________________________ England. 空军元帅戈林手下的轰炸机飞行员们深信，他们会最终战胜英国。
Hitler and Goering believed that when London became __________________ like Warsaw or Rotterdam ['rɔtədæm, England would _________________.希特勒和戈林相信，当伦敦像华沙或鹿特丹一样被烧成一片焦土的时候，英国就会投降。
But the English were more ___________ than the Poles in Warsaw and ___________ in Rotterdam.但是英国人要比华沙的波兰人和鹿特丹的荷兰人幸运。
They had the English Channel as a ___________ against the Nazi _______________, and they had the Royal Air Force (RAF) to ________ the Nazis in the sky.他们有英吉利海峡这道抵挡纳粹地面部队的天然屏障，还有皇家空军在空中与纳粹作战。
_______________________ really started in the first week of September, when Hitler ___________________________the English did not_______________________.伦敦的苦难实际上开始于9月的第一个星期，那时希特勒最终确信英国人不打算投降。
On September 7, 1940, nearly four hundred German bombers _________ the city with bombs _______________.1940年9月7日，近400架德国轰炸机在大白天用炸弹猛烈轰炸了这座城市。
Goering __________, "This is the ____________ when our air force for the first time________ its bombs ___________ the enemy's heart."戈林曾吹嘘说：“这是我们空军第一次把炸弹直接投入敌人心脏的历史性时刻。
”Fires _______, houses ________, gas pipes ______, and dark smoke ______ from the streets.大火熊熊燃烧，房屋倒塌，煤气管道爆裂，街道上升起浓浓黑烟。
Men, women, and children ____________ of the bombs.男人、女人和孩子都感到了炸弹的威力。
Radar sirens ________, ambulances_____from one place of ________ to another, and firefighters _________ the flames hour after hour.雷达警报器在尖叫，救护车从一个充满痛苦的地方向另一个充满痛苦的地方飞速行驶，而消防队员则每时每刻都在面对熊熊火焰。
_________________for any city _____________________and continue to ______.在遭受如此重创后仍能继续坚持战斗，这对任何城市来说都似乎是不可能的。
It seemed impossible for people of the city ___________________, to work and eat and sleep and _______________________, with the _____ of bombs all around them and planes _____ fire in the skies above.炸弹在四周爆炸，飞机从空中向下扫射，市民们似乎不可能照常工作、上班、吃饭、睡觉、处理日常事务。
But the city ____________.但是这座城市挺住了。
Trains brought __________ in from the _______. 火车把上班的人们从郊区送到城内。
Buses ______________________________.公共汽车在街上颠簸前进。
The fires _____________________________.大火已被控制住。
Bottles of ____________ arrived ____ doorways,and women took them in, _____________the war were a thousand miles away.一瓶瓶牛奶被送到家门口，妇女们把它们取回家，好像战争发生在千里之外似的。
Newspapers __________and people ________ them, _______ to work and _________ reports of the battle ____________________ London.报纸一出来，人们就去购买，一边匆匆忙忙地赶去上班，一边阅读伦敦战况的报道。
And Edward R. Murrow went on the air, saying ________________________, "This is London."爱德华R.默罗用低沉而平稳的声音开始广播：“这里是伦敦。
”He spoke as though nothing could ever ________ him _________ saying those words.他播音时的语气，好像没有任何东西可以阻止他说出这几个字。
He did not speak them with any _____________________________________他说这几个字的时候，并不刻意显示出一种英雄气概。
He simply _________the quiet _______of the city's ______________.他只是沉着地告诉人们一个事实：这个城市依然存在。
Murrow knew that Britain's fate ____________________the ________of the people in the shops and streets, the men in the _________, the housewives, those ______________fire _______________, the people who had a thousand difficult and painful things to do.默罗知道英国的命运取决于这些人的决心：商店里和马路上的人们，酒店里喝酒的男人们，家庭妇女们，那些在屋顶上监视火情的人们，那些面临无数困难和痛苦的人们。