tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH -JULES VERNE- CHAPTER 26

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 26 THE WORST PERIL OF ALL Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 26 THE WORST PERIL OF ALL It must be confessed that hitherto things had not gone on so badly and that I had small reason to complain. If our difficulties becameno worse we might hope to reach our end. And to what a height ofscientific glory we should then attain I had become quite aLiedenbrock in my reasonings seriously I had. But would this stateof things last in the strange place we had come to Perhaps it might. For several days steeper inclines some even frightfully near to theperpendicular brought us deeper and deeper into the mass of theinterior of the earth. Some days we advanced nearer to the centre bya league and a half or nearly two leagues. These were perilousdescents in which the skill and marvellous coolness of Hans wereinvaluable to us. That unimpassioned Icelander devoted himself withincomprehensible deliberation and thanks to him we crossed many adangerous spot which we should never have cleared alone. But his habit of silence gained upon him day by day and wasinfecting us. External objects produce decided effects upon thebrain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power toassociate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitaryconfinement become idiots if not mad for want of exercise for thethinking faculty During the fortnight following our last conversation no incidentoccurred worthy of being recorded. But I have good reason forremembering one very serious event which took place at this time andof which I could scarcely now forget the smallest details. By the 7th of August our successive descents had brought us to adepth of thirty leagues that is that for a space of thirty leaguesthere were over our heads solid beds of rock ocean continents andtowns. We must have been two hundred leagues from Iceland. On that day the tunnel went down a gentle slope. I was ahead of theothers. My uncle was carrying one of Ruhmkorffs lamps and I . I was examining the beds of granite.