新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit10b_new

[06:58.75]but her brother's wounds refused to heal.
[07:04.01]As the others were recovering,
[07:08.26]Kaz fell ill with all the symptoms of radiation sickness.
[07:15.20]The disease was a frightening result of the atomic bomb.
[07:21.65]Scientists in Los Alamos were surprised by its extent;
[07:28.81]they thought the blast would do most of the killing.
[07:34.07]Kaz felt as if she were dying. She ran a fever.
[07:42.42]She felt sick and dizzy, almost drunk.
[07:48.07]Her gums and her bowels were bleeding. She looked like a ghost.
[07:57.04]"I'm next," she thought realistically;
[08:01.97]she was an eighteen-year-old girl waiting her turn to die
[08:08.23]No medicine worked,
[08:11.80]since the only known treatment for radiation sickness was rest.
[08:18.85]As winter gave way to spring and spring to summer, Kaz began to heal.
[08:28.00]The illness had not really left her; it had gone into hiding,
[08:35.56]instead,
[08:38.83]and the physical and mental after-effects of that historical August 6,1945,
[08:49.38]would trouble Kaz all the rest of her life.