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in a year, and now I ’ve missed my plane. What bad luck!” I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquake in New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had unexpectedly turned into a good thing. two events does the writer mention? The writer mentions the September 11 attack in New York and the earthquake in New Zealand. 2. How did the writer end up missing both events? The writer went to get a coffee first and was not in the office when the plane hit the World Trade Center. He/she had over slept and missed his/her flight, so he/she is able to avoid the earthquake. Find words from the passage with opposite meanings to the words below. Then write a sentence with each word. : ______ ___________________________ 2. west :______ ___________________________ found east I found the money on the floor. The sun rises in the east. 3b 3. below:______ _________________________________ 4. dead:______ _______________________________________________ 5. empty:_____ ___________________________________________________________________ There was a large bird flying above us. above His family was so happy to hear that he was still alive. alive full The train was so full that I couldn’t get on at all. stare in disbelief take off unexpected burn above alive till/until arrive at be about to even though Retell