(Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English

listen and practice i have a great job i study crocodiles it's an important job let me explain why here in australia we have a lot of crocodiles but sometimes the crocodiles are sick i want to know why i study the food the crocodiles eat i also learn how fast they grow and where they live how do i do this well in the morning i take my camera and i watch the crocodiles in the river i take photos sometimes the crocodiles eat toads some toads make them sick and they die i want to help the crocodiles

listen and practice ice cream flavor expert believe it or not i taste ice cream for my job yes it's a dream job but it's also difficult i work at a big ice cream company every day i taste lots of different flavors three times each why is that well i taste a little of the ice cream we make in the morning afternoon and at night that way i know that all the ice cream is good i use my eyes first does the ice cream look nice then i taste the ice cream with a spoon does it

taste fresh and sweet then i spit it out yes i really spit it out listen and practice a young man in illinois was having trouble paying his college tuition so he came up with quite a creative solution he wrote to a newspaper columnist and asked him to print a request in his column he wanted the columnist to ask readers to send in one penny to help him pay for his college education readers of the newspaper thought it was a funny idea so they sent in their pennies and in the end the young man collected 28

thousand dollars last summer i flew from london to casablanca in morocco to do some research on the traditional music there unfortunately my bags didn't arrive with the flight i thought they would probably arrive on the next flight but they didn't i had nothing to wear except the clothes i had on luckily the airline gave me some money to buy some extra clothes and things the bags didn't turn up till four days later i was really glad to get my bags back because i had a lot of important stuff inside them but i had to wait

around until they turned up so i didn't get a chance to listen to any of the traditional music that's why i want to get back there again sometime listen and practice a city without oil the united arab emirates uae is a country with a lot of oil oil brings the country billions of dollars each year so why is the uae building a city that uses very little or no oil the answer is simple oil will not last forever but there is another resource people can use instead of oil the sun in fact engineers are now

building a new city that uses mostly solar energy for its power the city is called mazdar and it is about 20 miles 32 kilometers from abu dhabi one of the largest cities in the uae if it is a success mastar will be the first city in the world that uses little or no oil listen and practice emergency in the air on april 28th 1988 at 1 25 pm flight 243 left hilo hawaii it was a 40-minute flight to honolulu and the weather was good the 89 passengers were in their seats with their seat belts on

at 1 40 the plane reached 24 000 feet and the three flight attendants started serving drinks suddenly at 1 45 there was a loud noise mr dennan a businessman was in a window seat in the back of the airplane he looked at the front of the airplane and saw a big hole a third of the roof was gone mr dennan said i saw blue sky david cupahea was in a seat in the front of the airplane his suitcase was under the seat in front of him suddenly the suitcase flew out of the airplane then a

piece of metal hit his arm and cut it the passenger next to him had a large cut on his head everything was flying around books paper money said passenger stanford samson when the pilot heard the noise he looked back the cockpit door wasn't there and he saw blue sky above the passengers the first 18 feet 5.5 meters of the airplane behind the cockpit were completely open only the floor and the passenger seats were still there the pilot decided to put the airplane into a fast descent they were close to the airport on the island of

maui and maybe he could land the airplane there at 1 58 pm the pilot made an emergency landing at kahului airport in maui the passengers couldn't believe it they were safe on the ground what caused the emergency it was an old plane it made many short flights during its life it took off and landed many times and this weakened the plane listen and practice everyday life well i'm pretty busy i get up early and check my email i listen to the radio i don't watch tv on weekdays then i study it's crazy we get up

late so i eat breakfast in the car my husband doesn't have breakfast well my wife and i read the newspaper i have breakfast and my wife has coffee we're pretty quiet we don't talk a lot i try to study but my brother and sister make a lot of noise they don't care my sister watches tv and my brother plays games on the computer you