tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 9

JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 9 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 9 In a few words Gideon Spilett Herbert and Neb were made acquainted with what had happened. This accident which appeared so very serious to Pencroft produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor. Neb in his delight at having found his master did not listen or rather did not care to trouble himself with what Pencroft was saying. Herbert shared in some degree the sailor s feelings. As to the reporter he simply replied -- Upon my word Pencroft it s perfectly indifferent to me But I repeat that we haven t any fire Pooh Nor any means of relighting it Nonsense But I say Mr. Spilett-- Isn t Cyrus here replied the reporter. Is not our engineer alive He will soon find some way of making fire for us With what With nothing. What had Pencroft to say He could say nothing for in the bottom of his heart he shared the confidence which his companions had in Cyrus Harding. The engineer was to them a microcosm a compound of every science a possessor of all human knowledge. It was better to be with Cyrus in a desert island than without him in the most flourishing town in the United States. With him they could want nothing with him they would never despair. If these brave men had been told that a volcanic eruption would destroy the land that this land would be engulfed in the depths of the Pacific they would have imperturbably replied -- Cyrus is here While in the palanquin however the engineer had again relapsed into unconsciousness which the jolting to which he had been subjected during his journey had brought on so that they could not now appeal to his ingenuity. The supper must necessarily be very meager. In fact all the grouse flesh had been consumed and there no longer existed any means of cooking more game. Besides the couroucous which had been reserved had disappeared. They must consider what was to be done. First of all Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage. There they managed to arrange for him a .