Luyện nghe bài hát Horsell Common And The Heat Ray

JOURNALIST: morning, a crowd gathered 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, than
a bear, up slowly, glistening like wet leather. Its lipless mouth quivered and slavered
- and snake-like tentacles writhed as the clumsy body and pulsated.
A few men crept closer to the pit. A tall funnel rose, then an invisible ray of heat
from man to man and there was a bright glare, as each was instantly turned to fire.
Every tree and bush 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 verge of safety, this mysterious would leap after me
and strike me down. At last I reached Maybury and in the dim coolness of my home
I wrote an account for my newspaper I sank into a restless, haunted sleep.
I awoke to alien sounds of from the pit, and hurried to the railway station to
buy the paper.
Around me, the daily routine of - working, eating, sleeping - was continuing serenely
as it had for years.
On Horsell Common, the Martians hammering and stirring,
sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the they were making. Now and
a light, like the beam of a warship's searchlight, swept the Common - and the Heat
Ray was ready to follow. In the afternoon, a of soldiers came through and
deployed along the of the Common, to form a cordon.
That evening, there was a violent and I realized with horror that my home was
now within range of the Martian's Heat Ray. At dawn, a falling star with a of green
mist landed with a flash like lightning.
was the second cylinder.