Luyện nghe bài hát Horsell Common And The Heat Ray

JOURNALIST: Next morning, a crowd on the Common,
hypnotized by the unscrewing of the cylinder. Two feet of screw projected
when, suddenly, the lid off!
Two luminous disc-like eyes appeared above the rim. A huge, rounded bulk, larger
a bear, rose up slowly, glistening like wet leather. Its lipless mouth and slavered
- and snake-like writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated.
A few young men crept to the pit. A tall funnel rose, then an invisible ray of heat
leapt from man to man and there was a bright glare, as was instantly turned to fire.
Every tree and became a mass of flames at the touch of this savage, unearthly
Ray.
People clawed their way off the Common, and I ran too. I I was being toyed with,
that when I was on the very of safety, this mysterious death would leap after me
and strike me down. At I reached Maybury Hill and in the dim coolness of my home
I wrote an account for my newspaper before I sank a restless, haunted sleep.
I awoke to alien sounds of hammering from the pit, and hurried to the railway to
buy the paper.
me, the daily routine of life - working, eating, sleeping - was continuing serenely
as it had for years.
On Horsell Common, the Martians continued and stirring,
sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the they were making. Now and
again a light, like the of a warship's searchlight, swept the Common - and the Heat
Ray was ready to follow. In the afternoon, a company of soldiers came and
deployed along the edge of the Common, to a cordon.
That evening, there was a violent crash and I realized with horror my home was
now within range of the Martian's Ray. At dawn, a falling star with a trail of green
mist landed with a flash summer lightning.
was the second cylinder.