-
![]()
The First Experience with the Bombing in Hiroshima
Yamaguchi saw a bomber flying high in the sky of Hiroshima. Something
small dropped from the plane, and two white things appeared. "Parachutes,"
he thought.
Mata
Suddenly there was a flash like lightning. Yamaguchi was so used to air
attacks that he reacted in no time. He put his hands to his head and covered
his eyes with his fingers and his ears with his two thumbs. At the same time,
he dropped to the ground.
Teht
もち上げる
A terrible explosion came. It lifted him about two feet from the ground and
was followed by a shaking of the earth. He felt a strong wind pass between his
body and the road. Yamaguchi did not know if he was dazed because of the
first shock that had lifted him or because of the blow when he fell to the hard
だげき
ground.
He was not sure how long he lay dazed in the road. When he opened his
eyes, however, it was so dark all around him that he couldn't see a thing. It
was like the middle of the night in the heat of the day. When his eyes became
used to the darkness, he found that it was all black because he was in a cloud
of thick dust.
(207 words)
QAnswer T (true) or F (false).
1. Yamaguchi saw a bomber drop something small.
2. Yamaguchi was not used to air attacks.
3. The explosion threw Yamaguchi into a river.
1 didn't know how long he lay there.
(
