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雅思时事阅读：康涅狄格州校园枪击案细节报道

　　The school, in the well-to-do town of Newtown in Connecticut , had become the stage for the latest manifestation of American civic terror: the sudden appearance of a heavily armed assailant bent on mass murder. The setting was perverse: Newtown reported only one violent crime in 2010 and was considered one of the more attractive places in the country to raise a family. By the end of the onslaught, as many as 20 families would be bereft of their childrenand the nation, led by a mournful and teary President Obama, would once again be confronted with the issue of guns in a free society.

　　The instant Sibley heard the gunfire, she ran for cover, sprinting across the parking lot to where dumpsters stood, hiding there while the carnage took place. Within the school, the gunman was stalking the halls. Rebecca Cox related to TIME what her mother, Sarah Cox, the school nurse, saw: She heard a loud popping sound, so she got under her desk in her nurses office. She did see the gunmans feet. He walked into her office. She saw his legs and the bottom of his feet and just held her breath. He didnt know she was there and then he turned around and walked out. Sibley would later be told that students could hear what was going on over the PA system as one two-section class seemed to take the brunt of the invasion. All of the kids heard everything going on, she says. They heard the gunshots. They heard the cries for help. The whole school heard it.