Bão tuyết bất thường dịp Halloween ở NY

2 tháng 11 2011

Từ vựng - Vocabulary

Bài khóa - Transcript

Freak snowstorms have hit America’s East coast.

Some say Mother Nature played a Halloween trick on 60 million people. Only four times in the last 135 years has New York’s Central Park seen snow this early.

The blizzards caused power cuts and some deaths as roads became treacherous.

Bản dịch - Translation

Những trận bão tuyết bất thường đổ xuống vùng biển phía Đông nước Mỹ.

Một số người nói rằng Thiên nhiên đang chơi trò Halloween với 60 triệu người dân. Trong vòng 135 năm qua chỉ có bốn lần Công viên Trung Tâm New York có tuyết sớm như vậy.

Những trận bão tuyết đã làm mất điện và gây một số tử vong vì đường xá trở nên rất nguy hiểm.

Bài tập - Exercise

Hãy dùng các từ dưới đây ở dạng thích hợp để hoàn thành những câu sau:

freak / Mother Nature / blizzards / treacherous / grounded

1. Last winter Edinburgh experienced the worst ____________ for decades. Hundreds of tonnes of salt were used on roads and pavements. Offenders and the Army were brought in to clear routes.

2. Ms Hedges said: "The __________ waters round the Isle of Wight present a major challenge - there are so many unknowns. My emotions are very up and down at the moment, going from being really excited to really scared."

3. Before the president joined the children for a reading lesson, the White House and the president already knew a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, but they thought it was a ___________ accident.

4. Qantas ______________ all Saturday's flights, affecting some 70,000 travellers.

5. "An element of luck was involved with this, as with any expedition of this nature when the variables are out of your control - the weather, __________ herself," he said.

Giải đáp - Answers

1. Last winter Edinburgh experienced the worst blizzards for decades. Hundreds of tonnes of salt were used on roads and pavements. Offenders and the Army were brought in to clear routes.

2. Ms Hedges said: "The treacherous waters round the Isle of Wight present a major challenge - there are so many unknowns. My emotions are very up and down at the moment, going from being really excited to really scared."

4. Qantas grounded all Saturday's flights, affecting some 70,000 travellers.

5. "An element of luck was involved with this, as with any expedition of this nature when the variables are out of your control - the weather, Mother Nature herself," he said.