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UINT 4 Listening Text
Part 1
I will never forget the day when the earthquake took place. The time was a quarter past five in the afternoon and I was driving along the road to fetch my daughter from school. Our plan had been to go swimming together. I had finished work at about four o’clock and had then gone to the post office.
I was driving along a high road on my way to the school. Over my road was another road for cars going the other way. Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to move from side to side. I didn’t know what was happening. Perhaps something had gone wrong with my car. I drove even slower. Then the road above started to fall down. I stopped the car and at the same moment the road fell onto the cars in front of me.
Part 2
I found myself in the dark. I couldn’t move. The bottom part of my legs and my feet were hurting badly and I couldn’t move them. All around me was quiet, but below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noise. Then I remembered what had happened. It was clear to me now that I had been in an earthquake.
For about two hours nobody came. Then I heard people climbing towards me. A team of people had come to see if anyone was under the broken road. I called out “I’m here.” I heard a shout. Soon a stranger climbed to the side of the bridge near my car. It took them more than twelve hours to get me out of my car and bring me to a hospital.
Listening Text (workbook)
Jill: Do you know any of those four people over there?
Grace: Why sure. The girl who’s wearing glasses, that’s Chrissy. She’s 19. We were at school together. She’s a student now at Nankai University. Do you see the tall guy who’s talking to the man with the hat? I think that’s her new boyfriend.
Jill: Oh, he’s really cute. What’s his name?
Grace: He’s called jack.
Jill: What does he do? He looks too young to be a student.
Grace: No, you’re quite wrong there. It’s true that he looks very young, but he’s older than he looks. In fact, he’s a student at the film academy now, in Beijing. He won the first prize in the National Competition last year.
Jill: And what about the middle-aged woman, who’s wearing that purple dress?
Grace: Oh, that’s Ms Brown. Let’s go. I’ll introduce them to you.
Jill: Don’t forget to introduce me to Jack.
Grace: Excuse me, Doctor Brown, this is my friend Jill, whom I think you haven’t meet you.
Dr Brown: Good evening, Miss Jill, nice to meet you.
Grace: Dr Brown is a good friend of my father, isn’t it, Dr Brown?
Dr Brown: Oh yes, we’ve known each other for years. We work in the same hospital.
Jill: And the woman in the purple dress, is she your wife?
Dr Brown: Oh no, hahaha. She’s my daughter. Mind you, she’s in her thirties.
Jill: What does Miss Brown do?
Dr Brown: She teachers Japanese at Nankai University, here in Tianjin.
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