tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 1

JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 1 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 1 Are we rising again No. On the contrary. Are we descending Worse than that captain we are falling For Heaven s sake heave out the ballast There the last sack is empty Does the balloon rise No I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car It cannot be more than 500 feet from us Overboard with every weight .everything Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air above the vast watery desert of the Pacific about four o clock in the evening of the 23rd of March 1865. Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast in the middle of the equinox of that year. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Its ravages were terrible in America Europe and Asia covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Towns were overthrown forests uprooted coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them vessels cast on the shore which the published accounts numbered by hundreds whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea such were the traces of its fury left by this devastating tempest. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe one on the 25th of October 1810 the other on the 26th of July 1825. But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air. In fact a balloon as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom. Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car containing five passengers scarcely visible in the .