tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 57

JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 57 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 57 The colonists warned by the engineer left their work and gazed in silence at the summit of Mount Franklin. The volcano had awoke and the vapor had penetrated the mineral layer heaped at the bottom of the crater. But would the subterranean fires provoke any violent eruption This was an event which could not be foreseen. However even while admitting the possibility of an eruption it was not probable that the whole of Lincoln Island would suffer from it. The flow of volcanic matter is not always disastrous and the island had already undergone this trial as was shown by the streams of lava hardened on the northern slopes of the mountain. Besides from the shape of the crater--the opening broken in the upper edge--the matter would be thrown to the side opposite the fertile regions of the island. However the past did not necessarily answer for the future. Often at the summit of volcanoes the old craters close and new ones open. This had occurred in the two hemispheres--at Etna Popocatepetl at Orizabaand on the eve of an eruption there is everything to be feared. In fact an earthquake--a phenomenon which often accompanies volcanic eruption--is enough to change the interior arrangement of a mountain and to open new outlets for the burning lava. Cyrus Harding explained these things to his companions and without exaggerating the state of things he told them all the pros and cons. After all they could not prevent it. It did not appear likely that Granite House would be threatened unless the ground was shaken by an earthquake. But the corral would be in great danger should a new crater open in the southern side of Mount Franklin. From that day the smoke never disappeared from the top of the mountain and it could even be perceived that it increased in height and thickness without any flame mingling in its heavy volumes. The phenomenon was still concentrated in the lower part of the central crater. However with the fine days work had .