[00:01.080]--- Lesson 75 SOS
[00:06.800]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:12.800]--- How did the woman get help?
[00:17.720]When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago,
[00:22.760]it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed.
[00:27.600]The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt.
[00:36.160]It was the middle of winter.
[00:38.480]Snow lay thick on the ground.
[00:42.320]The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away.
[00:47.680]When it grew dark, she turned a suitcase into a bed and put the children inside it,
[00:56.240]covering them with all the clothes she could find.
[01:00.400]During the night, it got terribly cold.
[01:05.160]The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself,
[01:12.960]but it was too small.
[01:15.840]Early next morning, she heard planes passing overhead and wondered how she could send a signal.
[01:24.840]Then she had an idea.
[01:27.480]She stamped out the letters 'SOS' in the snow.
[01:34.480]Fortunately, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town.
[01:42.400]It was not long before a helicopter arrived on the scene to rescue the survivors of the plane crash.
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