[00:04.99]Lesson 61
[00:08.44]1.Dialogue
[00:13.61]Jenny and Yang Pei are cooking in kitchen.
[00:18.76]Suddenly a pan of oil catches fire.
[00:23.51]Look out!The pan's on fire.
[00:27.59]Quick,turn the gas off.Cover the pan.Be careful！
[00:33.65]There!
[00:36.21]Take care.The pan's very hot.
[00:40.57]Is the fire out?
[00:43.60]Yes,it's out.
[00:46.84]What a lot of smoke!
[00:50.29]Never mind.So now you know what you should do.
[00:55.75]First turn the gas off and cover the pan.
[01:00.89]Then wait until the fire is out.
[01:04.65]Never try to carry the pan out of the kitchen.
[01:09.02]You might get burnt and you might drop the pan of burning oil.
[01:14.76]In that case,you wouldn't have a pan on fire.
[01:20.64]You'd have a house on fire!
[01:24.30]2.Reading
[01:28.24]If you stay in a hotel,you will find a notice like this:
[01:34.43]FIRE NOTICE
[01:37.28]If you discover a fire:
[01:41.25]Break the glass to sound the fire alarm.
[01:45.51]Telephone the operator;asy where th fire is.
[01:51.39]Leave the hotel by the nearest exit.
[01:55.75]If you hear the fire alarm:
[01:59.30]Don't go to your room to collect your things or you may be trapped by the fire.
[02:06.75]Don't take the lift,as the lift may become trapped between floors.
[02:13.90]Use the stairs.Leave the building at once.
[02:19.78]Consider every fire alarm to be a real fire.
[02:25.14]Take your room key with you.
[02:28.79]If you are trapped by fire in the building,you may have to return to your room.
[02:35.56]Find out where the nearest fire exit is as soon as you arrive at your hotel.
[02:42.72]Lesson 62 Reading
[02:52.38]Read the passage to answer this question:
[02:57.35]Why were so many people killed in this fire?
[03:02.99]SAO PAULO FIRE
[03:06.44]More than 220 people were killed in the fire which destroyed the Capital Building
[03:13.59]on February 4th,1974.
[03:18.45]The building was finished only a few months before the fire;
[03:24.23]it was Sao Paulo's newest building.
[03:28.59]All 25 floors of the office building were completely destroyed.
[03:34.65]The fire also destroyed cars which belonged to people who worked in the building.
[03:41.31]Over 500 people were working in the building
[03:46.27]when the fire broke out on the 11th floor.
[03:50.64]No one knows how the fire started.
[03:54.71]Perhaps it was started by an electrical fire in the ceiling of one of the offices.
[04:01.19]Office workers tried to put out the fire,but it was impossible to control it.
[04:07.64]Soon the whole floor was on fire
[04:11.90]and it was impossible for people on the floors above to escape.
[04:17.75]Below the 11th floor people were able to escape into the street.
[04:24.02]However,more than 300 people were trapped above the fire.
[04:30.18]The building was built without any fire escapes.
[04:35.04]Many of the people who were trapped
[04:38.88]climbed up the stairs to the flat roof of the office building.
[04:44.24]Helicopters were sent to rescue them，
[04:48.91]but it was impossible for them to get close enough.
[04:53.96]The smoke from the fire was too thick for them to be able to land on the roof.
[05:00.33]However,after about two hours,they were able to get close enough
[05:06.81]and about 70 people escaped from the fire in the helicopters.
[05:12.74]In the streets below,there were other problems.
[05:17.57]There were so many people in the street watching the fire
[05:22.43]that firefighters could not get close to the building.
[05:27.08]When they reached the burning building
[05:30.63]they found that their ladders were not long enough
[05:35.20]to reach the people who were trapped.
[05:38.96]The fire lasted about four hours before the firefighters could control it.
[05:45.31]But it was too late.
[05:48.47]The whole building was destroyed and over 220 people lost their lives in the fire |