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The police had moved quickly to block off the area. Now Jim stood across the street with the other students, watching in stunned disbelief as the fire department fought to (1) ____ control of the fire. But it looked hopeless. The east end of the building exploded into flames. The noise was so loud (2) ____ even Jim, as he fiddled absently (3) ____ the volume control to his hearing aid, could hear a faint roar. Across the street on the school grounds Mr. Maclntire, the principal, was shouting to the fire chief. Jim read his lips, (4) ____ some of what he said because of the distance but getting (5) ____ than enough to understand, “...eight students and a teacher...in a basement room...trapped!” The fire chief shook his head. Three times already firefighters had tried to enter the building, only to be (6) ___ back by the heat and smoke, and now there was no hope at all. Jim saw it in the chief’s face. His friends and the teacher he respected more than any (7) ____ were as good as dead. They had little (8) ___ to survive the smoke, not to mention the heat. It was Jim’s class in the basement, and he should have been in there himself. But he has stopped in the hall upstairs to talk to Mr. Maclntire about the Phonic Ear. It was a small radio receiver plugged into his hearing aid (9) ___ signals from a transmitter worn by his teachers. Born with a (10) ____ impairment, Jim had had problems in his classes. He was a good lip reader, but lip reading did not always (11) ____. Teachers sometimes, without thinking, (12) ___ their faces away when talking. Making good grades had been hard for him (13) ____ he began to use the Phonic Ear. Now he heard everything his teacher said, and his grades had shot (14) ____. That was one reason he had been placed in the advanced physics class, the only course still (15) ____ in any of the basement floor classrooms of the old school, (16) ____ was undergoing renovation. A new wing was to be added to the back of the school. Heavy equipment had been digging the new foundations and had broken a gas line leading into the basement. (17) ____ he was late to class, Jim had just turned away from Mr. Maclntire (18) ____ the school building was rocked by an (19) ____. Smoke rose from the basement stairwell and was followed by fire. Everyone on the upper two floors had gotten out. But there had been no escape for those (20) ____.


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