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Recount Texts Exercise

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Text 1-a struck something and was sinking. "Where is

Pekko?" she asked. "He went to see why the
Very little was ever written about the ship had stopped. I don't know where he is
third-class passengers of the Titanic; report- now." "How did he get out of the passage-
ers, the United States Senate investigation, way?" she continued. "All the doors are
and the British investigation never bothered locked!" I was confused; I didn't know what
to interview any of the third-class survivors. to do next. After a few moments I grabbed
Most of those in third class spoke very my purse and life jacket and ran out to the
little English. But for some, like Titanic sur- passageway. The door was locked! All of the
vivor Elin Hakkarainen, the memory lin- doors were locked.
gered long enough for her English to catch Finally a ship's steward came and gath-
up ... ered a small group of us together and guided
We could hardly believe that in two more us, "Come, there is another way to get to the
days we would be landing In America. Origi- upper deck." On the upper deck, it was
nally, my husband and I planned on making rather quiet — almost eerie. The deck on
the trip on board the Mauretania, but we de- the ship's bow was already under water, and
cided to wait a few months so we could the loud sound of the steam escaping from
make the crossing aboard the luxury liner the funnels had settled down. The lifeboats
Titanic. Married just a few months, Pekko were guarded by the ship's officers standing
and 1 decided to leave Finland and start a in semicircles around each one. Soon I was
new life in America. Although we were motioned aboard a lifeboat, but I still was
booked as third class, we still enjoyed many scanning the listing deck looking for my hus-
"extras" on board and had quite a time in band.
our little group. After a couple of days at sea We rowed away quickly, watching our
we settled into a routine: attending church ship slide beneath the surface of the water.
services after breakfast, strolling the decks, The screams of those in the water were hor-
and during the evening playing games in the rible — I remember calling over and over,
third-class general room. "Pekko, Pekko, I am here; come this way." It
We would leave the game room very late was cold on the lifeboat, and I wasn't wear-
in the evening, and the night of April 14th ing warm clothes. I didn't know if I was fal-
was no exception. Just after we returned to ling asleep or freezing to death, but I drifted
our cabin and settled in, Pekko reached to into unconsciousness.
turn out the light when we heard a scraping
sound and felt the ship shudder. A few mo- Text 1-c
ments later the throb of the engines
stopped. Pekko jumped out of bed, slipped Soon after, it was daylight, and we could
into his clothes, and said, "I'm going to see see a ship in the distance — we would be
what has happened." Not thinking too much rescued...and made warm. Once aboard the
of WI this, I dozed off. But after an hour or Carpathia, the passengers and crew did their
so, the murmuring of other passengers in best to console us. We were given clothes,
the hall awakened me. I noticed Pekko was food, and hot coffee. But with all we were
still gone, and when I tried to step out of the given. I was still lacking. I slowly realized the
bed, the cabin was tilted at an angle. last words I might ever hear from my hus-
band were, "I'm going to see what has hap-
Text 1-b pened." I remember standing at the railing
for hours, looking out to the open sea and
Soon there was a hard and very fast hoping upon hope that I would discover just
knock at the door, and one of my friends one more lifeboat.
from Finland dashed in to say the ship had
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01. What is the purpose of paragraph 1 and 2? by a single airplane destroyed the city, leading
______. to the end of World War II and introducing
mankind to the Atomic Age.
02. What is the topic of the passage? Dr. Michihiko Hachiya lived through that
(A) The Titanic day and kept a diary of his experience. He
(B) A Titanic survivor account served as the Director of the Hiroshima
(C) The sinking of Titanic Communications Hospital and lived near the
(D) The experience of a husband and a wife hospital approximately a mile from the ex-
(E) The death of the writer’s husband plosion's epicenter. His diary was published
in English in 1955:
03. The information__is NOT TRUE according Suddenly, a strong flash of light...
to the text. The hour was early; the morning was still
(A) The night of April 14th, the writer and warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, re-
Pekko left the game room in the left flecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a
evening. pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden
(B) On the lifeboat, the writer was uncon- as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors
scious opening to the south.
(C) A ship steward helped the writer to go Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was
to the upper deck sprawled on the living room floor exhausted
(D) Pekko informed the writer that the ship because I had just spent a sleepless night on
was sinking duty as an air warden in my hospital.
(E) The writer had married before boarding Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled
the Titanic me—and then another. So well does one re-
call little things that I remember vividly how
04. The last sentence a stone lantern in the garden became bril-
"I remember...hoping upon hope that I liantly lit and I debated whether this light
would discover just one more lifeboat." was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks
means... from a passing trolley.
(A) The writer hopes that her husband is
Text 2-b
not dead.
(B) The writer still hoped that her husband
Garden shadows disappeared. The view
would be alive.
where a moment before had been so bright
(C) The writer had found the last lifeboat.
and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through
(D) The writer's husband was found aboard
swirling dust I could barely discern a
the last lifeboat.
wooden column that had supported one cor-
(E) The writer was alive.
ner of my house. It was leaning crazily and
the roof sagged dangerously.
05. Guess what Carpathia is! (final paragraph)
Moving instinctively, I fried to escape,
_____.
but rubble and fallen timbers barred the way.
By picking my way cautiously I managed to
Text 2-a
reach the roka [an outside hallway] and
stepped down into my garden. A profound
August 6, 1945 - the sun rose into a clear
weakness overcame me. so I stopped to re-
blue sky over the city of Hiroshima, Japan
gain my strength. To my surprise I discov-
promising a warm and pleasant day. Nothing
ered that I was completely naked. How odd!
in the day's dawning indicated that this day
Where were my drawers and undershirt?
would be any different from its
What had happened?
predecessors. But this day would be differ-
All over the right side of my body I was
ent very different This day would change the
cut and bleeding. A large splinter was pro-
world. On this day a single bomb dropped
truding from a mangled wound in my thigh,
and something warm trickled into my and tied it around my loins.

mouth. My cheek was torn, I discovered as I Our progress towards the hospital was
felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide interminably slow, until finally, my legs,
open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable stiff from drying blood, refused to carry
fragment of glass which I matter-of-factly me farther. The strength, even the will, to
dislodged, and with the detachment of it, my go on deserted me, so I told my wife, who
hand was bleeding. was almost as badly hurt as I, to go on
Where was my wife? alone. This she objected to, but there was
Suddenly alarmed, I began to yell for no choice. She had to go ahead and try to
her: 'Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?' find someone to come back for me.
Blood began to spurt. Had my carotid artery
been cut? Would I bleed to death? Fright- Text 2-d
ened and irrational, I called out again 'Its a
five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where Yaeko-san looked into my face for a
are you? A five- hundred-ton bomb has moment, and then, without saying a word,
fallen!' turned away and began running towards
Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her the hospital. Once, she looked back and
clothes torn and blood-stained, emerged waved and in a moment she was swallowed
from the ruins of our house holding her el- up in the gloom. It was quite dark now, and
bow. Seeing her, I was reassured. My own with my wife gone. a feeling of dreadful
panic assuaged, I tired to reassure her. loneliness overcame me.
I must have gone out of my head lying
Text 2-c there in the road because the next thing I
recall was discovering that the clot on my
We'll be all right,' I acclaimed. 'Only let's thigh had been dislodged and blood was
get out of here as fast as we can.' again spurting from the wound.
She nodded, and I motioned for her to I pressed my hand to the bleeding area
follow me." and after a while the bleeding stopped and
It was all a nightmare... I felt better.
Dr. Hachiya and his wife made their way Could I go on?
to the street. As the homes around them col- I tried. It was all a nightmare - my
lapsed, they realized they must move on, and wounds, the darkness, the road ahead. My
began their journey to the hospital a few movements were ever so slow; only my
hundred yards away. mind was running at top speed.
“We started out, but after twenty or In time I came to an open space where
thirty steps I had to stop. My breath became the houses had been removed to make a
short, my heart pounded, and my legs gave fire lane. Through the dim light I could
way under me. An overpowering thirst seized make out ahead of me the hazy outlines of
me and I begged Yaeko-san to find me some the Communications Bureau's big concrete
water. But there was no water to be found. building, and beyond it the hospital. My
After a little my strength somewhat returned spirits rose because I knew that now some-
and we were able to go on. one would find me; and if I should die, at
I was still naked, and although I did not least my body would be found. I paused to
feel the least bit of shame. I was disturbed to rest. Gradually things around me came into
realize that modesty had deserted me. On focus. There were the shadowy forms of
rounding a corner we came upon a soldier people, some of whom looked like walking
standing idly in the street_ He had a towel ghosts. Others moved as though in pain,
draped across his shoulder, and I asked if he like scarecrows. their arms held out from
would give it to me to cover my nakedness. their bodies with forearms and hands dan-
The soldier surrendered the towel quite will- gling. These people puzzled me until I sud-
ingly but said not a word. A little later I lost denly realized that they had been burned
the towel. and Yaeko-san took off her apron and were holding their arms out to prevent
the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing 02. What is the best title for the text?
together. A naked (A) Recounting the Atomic Bombing.
In time I came to an open space where (B) Recounting the Bombing Hiroshima.
the houses had been removed to make a (C) Recounting the Bombing Hiroshima
tire lane. Through the dim light I could and Nagasaki.
make out ahead of me the hazy outlines of (D) Recounting an Atomic Bombing Ex-
the Communications Bureau's big periment in Japan.
concrete building, and beyond it the hos- (E) Recounting Atomic War.
pital. My spirits rose because I knew that
now someone would find me; and if I 03. Which one is NOT TRUE according to the
should die, at least my body would be text?
found. I paused to rest. Gradually things
(A) After the bomb had been dropped, his
around me came into focus. There were the
house's wooden column tilted.
shadowy forms of people, some of whom
(B) After the bomb had been dropped, he
looked like walking ghosts. Others moved
was completely naked.
as though in pain, like scarecrows. their
(C) His wife arrived at the hospital before
arms held out from their bodies with fore-
he did.
arms and hands dangling. These people
(D) On his way to the hospital, he stopped
puzzled me until I suddenly realized that
more than once.
they had been burned and were holding
(E) He saw walking ghosts on his way to
their arms out to prevent the painful fric-
the hospital.
tion of raw surfaces rubbing together. A
04. Below are what happened to Michihiko
naked woman carrying a naked baby came
Hachiya's body after the bomb had been
into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps they
dropped, EXCEPT...
had been in the bath. But then I saw a na-
ked man, and it occurred to me that, like (A) The right side of his body was
myself, some strange thing had deprived wounded.
them of their clothes. An old woman lay (B) His thigh was wounded.
near me with an expression of suffering on (C) His cheek was torn.
her face; but she made no sound. Indeed, (D) His neck was lunged with a fragment
one thing was common to everyone I saw - of glass.
complete silence. (E) His face was pale.
All who could were moving in the di-
rection of the hospital. I joined in the dis- 05. The underlined word
mal parade when my strength was some- “concrete” (paragraph 25) most nearly-
what recovered, and at last reached the means ...
gates of the Communications Bureau." (A) abstract.
(B) real.
01. The underlined word (C) biulding material.
“predecessors” (paragraph 1) most nearly (D) destroyed.
means ... (E) safe.
(A) Successors.
(B) Former days.
(C) Ancestors.
(D) Descendants.
(E) Previous life.
Text 3-a ing of surprise. I had imagined something

horrible and sinister beyond words. It was
Hitler established the first concentration nothing like that It looked singularly harm-
camp soon after he came to power in 1933. less from outside. 'Is that it?' was my first
The system grew to include about 100 reaction when we stopped at what looked
camps divided into two types: concentra- like a large workers' settlement Behind us
tion camps for slave labor in nearby facto- was the many towered skyline of Lublin.
ries and death camps for the systematic There was much dust on the road, and the
extermination of "undesirables" including grass as dull, greenish-grey colour. The
Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally camp was separated from the road by a
retarded and others. couple of barbed-wire fences, but these did
As the allied armies raced towards final not look particularly sinister, and might
victory, advancing troops liberated the have been put up outside any military or
camps one-by-one, revealing the horrors of semi-military establishment The place was
the Nazi concept of establishing a "pure" large; like a whole town of barracks
society. The first liberation came in July painted a pleasant soft green. There were
1944 when Soviet troops entered Mai- many people around - soldiers and civilians.
danek, a death camp located in Poland two A Polish sentry opened the barbed-wire
miles from the city of Lublin. Alexander gate to let cars enter the central avenue,
Werth, a correspondent for the London with large green barracks on either side.
Sunday Times and the BBC, accompanied And we stopped outside a large barrack
the Soviet troops and described the camp marked Bad und Desinfektion II. 'This,' some-
shortly after its capture. body said, 'is where large numbers of those
The BBC refused to air his report of arriving at the camp were brought in.'
the camp as his description was so unbe- The inside of this barrack was made of
lievable they considered it a Soviet propa- concrete, and water taps came out of the
ganda ploy. It was not until the later cap- wall, and around the room there were
ture of Buchenwald, Dachau and other benches where the clothes were put down
camps on the western front that his de- and afterwards collected. So this was the
scription was accepted as true. place into which they were driven. Or per-
"It looked singularly harmless." haps they were politely invited to 'Step this
The Maidanek camp was established by way, please?' Did any of them suspect,
the Nazis in 1941 soon after their conquest while washing themselves after a long jour-
of the then Russian occupied region of ney, what would happen a few minutes
Poland. The primary purpose of the facility later? Anyway, after the washing was over,
was the speedy extermination of new arri- they were asked to go into the next room;
vals (mostly Jews) transported in from vari- at this point even the most unsuspecting
ous countries including Czechoslovakia, must have begun to wonder. For the "next
France, Austria, and Holland. The majority room" was a series of large square concrete
of victims, however, came from the structures, each about one-quarter of the
immediate area. It is estimated that 1.5 size the bath-house, and, unlike it, had no
million died at the camp during its three windows. The naked people (men one time,
years of operation. women another time, children the next)
were driven or forced from the bath-house
Text 3-b into these dark concrete boxes - about five
yards square - and then, with 200 or 250
Soviet troops entered the camp in July people packed into each box - and it was
1944. A week later, completely dark there, except for a small
Alexander Werth joined a group of fellow light in the ceiling and the spyhole in the
reporters in a guided tour of the facility: door - the process of gassing began. First
some hot air was pumped in from the ceil-
"My first reaction to Maidanek was a feeling and then the pretty pale-blue crystals
of Cyclon were showered down on the 01. The text mainly tells us about ...
people, and in the hot wet air they rapidly (A) The victim account of the Maidanek
evaporated. In anything from two to ten Concentration Camp.
minutes everybody was dead ... (B) A reporter experience touring the Mai-
There were six concrete boxes—gas- danek Concentration Camp.
chambers—side by side. 'Nearly two thou- (C) A Soviet troops retelling his story find-
sand people could be disposed of here ing the Maidanek Concentration
simultaneously,' one of the guides said. But Camp.
what thoughts passed through these peo- (D) Hitler account of the Maidanek Con-
ple's minds during centration Camp.
But what thoughts passed through (E) The slaughtering of Jews by Nazi Ger-
these people's minds during those first few many.
minutes while the crystals were falling;
could anyone still believe that this humiliat- 02. The opposite of the underlined word
ing process of being packed into a box and "immediate" (paragraph 5) is mostly ..
standing there naked, rubbing backs with (A) fast
other naked people, had anything to do (B) slow
with disinfection? (C) far
(D) near
Text 3-c (E) indirect
At first it was all very hard to take in, 03. Which one is TRUE about the text?
without an effort of the imagination. There (A) From the outside, Maidanek looked
were a number of very dull-looking con- horrible and sinister.
crete structures which, if their doors had (B) The doors of the gas chambers in Mai-
been wider, might anywhere else have been danek were made of iron.
mistaken for a row of nice little garages. (C) The writer was the first person to find
But the doors - the doors! They were heavy the Maidanek Concentration Camp.
steel doors, and each had a heavy steel bolt. (D) At first the BBC thought the camp was
And in the middle of the door was a spy- a Soviet scheme.
hole, a circle, three inches in diameter com- (E) Concentration camps were made only
posed of about a hundred small holes. to murder the "undesirables".
Could the people in their death agony see
the SS man's eye as he watched them? Any- 04. The underlined word “disposed
way, the SS-man had nothing to fear: his of ” (paragraph 9) mostly means ...
eye was well protected by the steel netting (A) located.
over the spyhole ... (B) transferred.
...Then a touch of blue on the floor (C) killed.
caught my eye. It was very faint, but still (D) arranged.
legible. In blue chalk someone had scrib- (E) thrown.
bled the word "vergast’ and had drawn
crudely above it a skull and crossbones. I 05. what does the phrase “...the pretty pale-
had never seen this word before but it ob- blue crystals of cyclon...” mostly refer to?
viously meant" gassed" - and not merely
(A) jewellery.
"gassed" but: with, that eloquent little pre-
(B) hot water.
fix ver. 'gassed out'. That's this job finished,
(C) poison.
and now for the next lot. The blue chalk
(D) hot air.
came into motion when there was nothing
(E) air evaporation.
but a heap of naked corpses inside. But
what cries, what curses, what prayers per-
haps, had been uttered inside that gas
chamber only a few minutes before?..."
Text 4-a be something wrong with air traffic control

and they didn't realise they were directing
On September 11, 2001, Sydney woman the planes into downtown Manhattan.
Penny saw American Airlines Flight 11 hit Either way I knew I had to get out be-
the north tower of the World Trade Centre cause we could well be next in line and I
from her hotel window across the road. She didn't want to be leaping to my death from
shares her story and photos for the first a 60-storey building like those poor people
time. I had tragically just witnessed.
. I was staying in the Millennium Hilton My instinct was to run - I didn't get
Hotel, directly across the road from the dressed, I didn't grab anything, I escaped in
twin towers on Church Street. I was stand- the hotel bathrobe and only took my cam-
ing at the window taking photos of the era as it was still in my hand and I hadn't
view when I heard the sound of the plane thought to put it down.
approaching. It seemed normal at first until People came streaming out of their
in a few split seconds it turned into a roar, rooms, panicked and fighting to get into
followed by a massive explosion. I'm sure the lift, which was packed by now. An an-
as I can be that whoever was flying that jet nouncement came over the loudspeaker to
put it in full throttle just before it hit, as the evacuate immediately. It seemed like an
screech sounded just like when a plane is eternity for the elevator to get down to the
taking off. ground because it stopped at every floor
. I watched at the window while the and people were pushed back as they tried
enormity of the disaster began to unfold, to crush their way in.
watched as we realised people were trapped In the foyer we were ushered out a side
on the floors above the explosion, as fire door and I was grateful I had grabbed my
and police rescuers streamed into the build- sandals, as there was debris on the ground.
ing. We ran up a side sheet and I recall be-
. People were throwing whatever they ing astonished that people were just stand-
could out of the windows -tables, water ing there, mesmerised by what they were
coolers etc. - to break the glass and get air. seeing. I've thought about why since then
I could see them hanging out of windows, and I think they were so shocked to see
then to my horror I realised people were those buildings, which were so familiar to
beginning to jump to their death rather them and part of the New York those
than being burned alive. What a terrible building, which were so familiar to them
choice to have to make. And there was and part of the New York landscape, at-
nothing I. or as it turned out, anyone else, tacked and burning. It was personal to
could do to help. them.
I saw what I'm pretty sure was a police-
man killed by a person who fell on him.
We were told to stay in the building as
there was a lot of falling debris, massive
pillars, all sorts of things, paper like a ticker
-tape parade.
I switched on the television to see if
there was anything on the news. Up until
that point I thought it was an accident
Then suddenly as I watched it live, like mil-
lions of other people, I heard the second
plane come screaming in.
The explosion was a lot bigger and
closer and our building shook. I suddenly
realised something was very wrong. For
some bizarre reason I thought there must
Text 4-b 02. The writer saw the following after the first
airplane crashed the twin towers, EX-
But my every instinct was to get as far CEPT ...
away from the towers and all the other (A) fire and police rescuers who immedi-
buildings as I could. I ran down to Battery ately entered the building.
Park, where I had caught the Statue of Lib- (B) people in the twin towers throwing
erty ferry the day before. On the streets things out of the windows to get air.
people were standing around people with (C) people in the twin towers jumping
mobile phones getting updates and we from the building.
heard there were more planes hijacked and (D) A person stepped on a police officer.
on the way. (E) falling debris.
I had only been on a wharf near Battery
Park for a relatively short time when I 03. Which one is TRUE according to the text?
heard another massive explosion and saw a
(A) There was only one plane crashing into
huge cloud of dust coming our way.
the twin towers.
It was incomprehensible that one of
(B) Only one of the twin towers fell down.
the towers had fallen down but we pretty
(C) A firefighter evacuated the writer from
soon understood that's what happened.
Manhattan.
And then a short time later the next tower
(D) The writer entered the twin towers
fell. It was too much in. All we could do
after the plane crash.
was cover our faces from the dust, sit and
(E) The writer was not the only Australian
wait to see what was going to happen next.
who had witnessed the 9/11.
Thousands of people were on foot es-
caping across the bridges but it just seemed
04. What did the writer think after the saw the
too exposed if there were more attacks so I
first crash?
waited by the river thinking at least I could
swim for it if necessary. (A) She thought it was a terrorist attack.
Eventually a police boat came and (B) She thought it was an air traffic
evacuated us from Manhattan. I was given control’s fault.
shelter for a couple of nights by a Wall (C) She thought it was an accident.
Street banker I had met who had just lost (D) She thought it was only a normal
dozens of friends. I was stuck in New York sound of an airplane.
for almost two weeks before I could get a (E) She thought her hotel would be the
flight home. next target.
I've been back to New York twice now,
I still love it and feel a dose bond with the 05. The underline word “take in” in sentence
people, who we shared such a tragic time “it was too much to take in” (paragraph)
with in the days after the attack. mostly means ...
I've tried to connect with other Austra- (A) Understand.
lians who were there on that day and will (B) Enjoy.
be attending the interfaith memorial service (C) Disgust.
at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on the (D) Humiliate.
10th anniversary of the attack. (E) Possess.
01. What was the writer doing right before the

first plane hit the twin towers?
(A) She was sleeping.
(B) She was taking photos at the windows.
(C) She was running outside her hotel.
(D) She was jumping from her hotel win-
dow.
(E) She was helping people.

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Recount Texts Exercise

Text 1-a struck something and was sinking. "Where is

and something warm trickled into my and tied it around my loins.

Text 3-a ing of surprise. I had imagined something

Text 4-a be something wrong with air traffic control

01. What was the writer doing right before the

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