Unit7-Listening-Listening
The time is 7 o'clock and here is the news summary.
Heavy rain during the night has caused floods all over the country today. Many people have left their homes because rivers have risen. Some roads in the north-west are under two metres of water. The rain has stopped at the moment, but it's still cloudy and there's strong wind. Because of the bad weather people can't go out to work.
A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the twenty-third times. At 4.418 metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in California. The woman says the view from the top is wonderful. So she tries to climb it often. She also says that mountain has kept her young and healthy. In spite of her old age the woman tries to climb the mountain very often.