TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND- CHAPTER 21

JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 21 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 21 From this time Pencroft did not let a single day pass without going to visit what he gravely called his corn-field. And woe to the insects which dared to venture there No mercy was shown them. Towards the end of the month of June after incessant rain the weather became decidedly colder and on the 29th a Fahrenheit thermometer would certainly have announced only twenty degrees above zero that is considerably below the freezing-point. The next day the 30th of June the day which corresponds to the 31st of December in the northern year was a Friday. Neb remarked that the year finished on a bad day but Pencroft replied that naturally the next would begin on a good one which was better. At any rate it commenced by very severe cold. Ice accumulated at the mouth of the Mercy and it was not long before the whole expanse of the lake was frozen. The settlers had frequently been obliged to renew their store of wood. Pencroft also had wisely not waited till the river was frozen but had brought enormous rafts of wood to their destination. The current was an indefatigable moving power and it was employed in conveying the floating wood to the moment when the frost enchained it. To the fuel which was so abundantly supplied by the forest they added several cartloads of coal which had to be brought from the foot of the spurs of Mount Franklin. The powerful heat of the coal was greatly appreciated in the low temperature which on the 4th of July fell to eight degrees of Fahrenheit that is thirteen degrees below zero. A second fireplace had been established in the dining-room where they all worked together at their different avocations. During this period of cold Cyrus Harding had great cause to congratulate himself on having brought to Granite House the little stream of water from Lake Grant. Taken below the frozen surface and conducted through the passage it preserved its fluidity and arrived at an interior reservoir which had been hollowed

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