English Listening B1 Episode 09 - Track 06
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
TRACK 6
I=Interviewer, S=Scientist
I: You have been looking at how the human body copes with very
temperatures. Is that right?
S: Yes, that’s
.
I: And what have you
?
S: Well, it’s an
question. Of course, freezing temperatures are
the body. You can get
if your skin freezes. And about
of people whose body temperature falls below
Celsius actually die. But at the same time, there are some people who have
much lower body temperatures – and made a full
.
I: Can you give us an
?
S: Yes. There’s the famous case of a
doctor called Anna Bågenholm. She was
in the mountains in Norway when she had an accident.
I: How did the
happen?
S: Well, she went skiing with two
from hospital – Anna was a doctor, you see, and was studying to become a
. Anyway, the three of them were skiing down a
when Anna lost control of her skis. She fell onto a
, which was actually the surface of a stream. The ice
and Anna fell
through the hole, as far as her waist. Beneath the ice was
, freezing cold water.
I: What did her two
do?
S: Well, they tried to pull her out by her
– but she was trapped under the ice. She could
, because there was some air between the ice and the water, but she couldn’t
. After trying for seven minutes to free her, her two colleagues
and phoned for help.
I: And did help arrive
?
S: Two rescue teams
to help Anna, one from the top of the mountain and one from the bottom. The one from the top arrived
, but they couldn’t pull her out of the ice.
I: What about the
team?
S: The second team managed to get her out by
in the ice. But by the time they got her free, she had been in the freezing water for
minutes. Anna was not
and her heart was not
. A helicopter took her to hospital. When she arrived, her body temperature was
Celsius. According to the doctor in charge of the
, Anna was ice cold and looked dead.
I: But I guess she
.
S: Well, no. There’s an
among some doctors: ‘You aren’t dead until you’re warm and dead.’ In other words, sometimes people who are extremely cold can come back to life when they get
. Doctors at the hospital worked for
to save Anna. When her temperature had risen to
Celsius, her heart started beating again. Gradually, after and days and weeks, Anna made a full
.
I: That’s
.
S: Yes, and in 2009, ten years after the accident, Anna got a job working as a
in the hospital that had saved her life.
