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The sole survivor of the Sago Mine tragedy Randy McCloy released a letter detailing the last hours of the 12 miners who did not ____1____. In the letter, McCloy talked about trying to signal their location to rescuers with a sledgehammer, sharing air tanks and finally drifting off to sleep.
A senate committee says FEMA needs to be rebuilt ____2____. The report comes just a month before hurricane season begins and says bad leadership and inadequate funding it left FEMA beyond repair.
The jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial ____3____ Thursday after 16 hours of deliberations, because one of them is sick. The jury is trying to decide if Moussaoui will be sentenced to death or receive life in prison for his role of the September 11 attacks.
If you've got time, read the decision by the British judge who holds the Da Vinci copyright trial of author Dan Brown. He apparently ___4___ his own code into the judgment, certain random letters are scattered in bold italics throughout the ruling. The judge isn't confirming that he left the code in the ruling.
1. make it out ( succeed, to deal with a situation, usually in a successful way ) 2. from scratch ( from the beginning, without using anything that already exists )
3. took a break ( Interrupted one's activity briefly ) 4. inserted ( to put something inside something else )
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