Module 2, exercise 1, page 20.0:01
Speaker A I was trapped for over a day in the ruins of a tall block of flats after a devastating earthquake struck in Golkuk, Turkey.0:06
I knew from a television program that I would be able to survive for three days without food or water, so at least I stopped worrying about that.0:17
I had also learnt that I should lie still to save my energy.0:26
I tried to keep calm and about 10 hours later, I heard my name being called and was able to reply.0:31
The scramble to free me began.0:38
It took the rescuers 18 hours to find a route through the rubble.0:41
I was finally pulled clear with only minor injuries.0:46
Speaker B It was late September and we were climbing in the Kumaon region of the Indian Himalayas.0:51
Temperatures had dropped to below zero and heavy clouds were dumping more than 10cm of snow per hour.1:00
We'd taken shelter by chiseling our tents inside a crevasse that sloped downward into a seemingly bottomless pit.1:08
An avalanche hit at midnight.1:17
Our tents collapsed and we awoke to snow squeezing us in the darkness.1:19
As the snow pushed us farther into the crevasse, I fought to keep an airspace in front of my mouth while pulling up frantically.1:25
Pete and I dug a 15 foot long tunnel through the snow and poked our heads out into a raging storm.1:33
There was no way we could have survived out there for four days.1:41
Later, the storm stopped.1:45
We tunneled out and started climbing down the mountain to safety.1:47
Speaker c I was 17 and it was the first day of the holidays.1:52
I was lying on my bodyboard on Kauai's Breniki beach, feet dangling in the water, when something bit my leg and pulled me under.1:58
When I realized it was a shark, I started punching it on the nose, but it didn't care and began thrashing me around like a mad dog with a stuffed animal.2:06
It let go for a second, but grabbed a hold of me again and took me down feet first while I kept punching it as hard as I could.2:16
Eventually, the shark flipped away and let me go.2:24
I climbed on top of my board and paddled to shore.2:27
The shark had bitten me right below the knee.2:30
The doctors told me later that I'd lost so much blood, I was lucky to have survived.2:33
Speaker D I was in my car on the Wootton Bridge when suddenly I saw the tarmac break in front of me and felt the bridge shake.2:39
I thought I had just survived the earthquake.2:49
When the bridge started falling, I plummeted head first, still gripping the steering wheel.2:51
My car landed on a large concrete slab, but the back end was slipping into the river water was rushing into the car.2:58
I tried to open the door but it was jammed.3:07
I started to panic, but tried the door again and it opened.3:10
I swam to the big slab of concrete and I had just climbed up onto it when I saw a man screaming and floating in the river.3:15
I found a piece of wood and held it out to him, guiding him through the water and onto my slab.3:23
It must have been about half an hour before a rescue boat found us.3:30
Speaker E Just after I had finished university, a friend, Enrique, and I went backpacking in South America.3:36
One particular day, we decided to try hiking from one village to the next in a beautiful mountainous area of Argentina.3:45
When we mentioned our idea to the owner of the hostel we were staying in, however, he warned us that since it was very easy to get lost in the area and the weather could be very unpredictable at that3:55
time of year, it would be better to hire a guide for the day.4:07
After discussing it for a while, however, we decided that we would risk it alone.4:12
We weren't going that far after all.4:17
Anyway, needless to say, we ended up in a great deal of trouble.4:21
We were found by a local mountain rescue team 48 hours later and taken to a hospital, exhausted and seriously dehydrated.4:25
Speaker F I've been mountain boarding since I was 12.4:37
It is an adrenaline sport that combines the best aspects of snowboarding, but on many different terrains during the off season, long after the snow has melted.4:42
It's a great sport, but it is also very dangerous.4:52
One day I was preparing to go down a particularly steep run when I spotted this young kid getting ready to go down too.4:57
I went up to him and asked him if he was an experienced mountain boarder.5:04
He hummed and hawed and then admitted that this would be his first attempt.5:09
I told him that he should try easier runs first so that he doesn't hurt himself.5:14
In the beginning, I thought he was going to do the run anyway, but his common sense prevailed and he went off to an easier hill.5:19
I am certain he would have broken something if he had done what he had so foolishly planned to do.5:27
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