سطح اول - آیلتس 5-4 (A2 - B1)
This story is about a man. He is from the USA. He is a university professor. He goes to Nepal. He climbs a mountain. The mountain is covered in ice.
There is a hole in the ice. It is 22 metres deep. The man falls in it. He doesn’t go all the way down. He stops somewhere in the hole. He cannot move. His arm and five ribs are broken.
He does not want to die. He climbs out of the hole. People find him the next day.
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Climb: صعود کردن
Hole: حفره/ گودال
Rib: دنده
سطح دوم - آیلتس 6-5 (+B1+ - B2)
An American university professor was climbing in Nepal when he fell down a hole. The crack in the ice was 22 metres deep, and the man got trapped in it.
The man thought that he was going to die. His arm and five ribs were broken, but he didn’t give up and he moved out of the gap. It took him six hours. He reached his tent in another three hours. Help came the next day.
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Crack: شکاف
Trapped: در دام افتادن
Give up: تسلیم شدن/ ناامید شدن
Tent: چادر
سطح سوم - آیلتس 7+ ( C1 - C2)
John, who is an associate geography professor at Western Kentucky University, was climbing a mountain in Nepal as part of a research project and fell into a crevasse.
He filmed his struggle inside the 22-metre hole, saying that he thought that he was going to die after breaking his arm and five ribs, but he managed to crawl out the gap. It took him six hours, using only an ice axe, and another three to reach his tent, where he spent the night before rescuers reached him the next day.
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Associate professor: دانشیار
Crevasse: شکاف عمیق
Struggle: تقلا/ کشاکش
Crawl: خزیدن
Axe: تبر
Rescuer: امدادگر
