A Strange Disease: Improve English Listening & Build Vocabulary for Exams

MP3 original audio reading and synchronized English text help you efficiently master 3,500 words through immersive learning. Each short story is close to exam scenarios, with clear pronunciation and key vocabulary analysis, allowing you to improve listening, consolidate vocabulary, and enhance language sense through repeated listening. Read one story every day and easily overcome the challenge of English listening tests! Let your ears 'remember' words and make English learning more natural! Here is today’s content from the 40 English short stories for mastering 3,500 words through immersive listening. Keep accumulating, and make your English closer to real life!

When the construction of the firework factory came to the stage of painting, a pump was put in. Then, all the painters in the neighborhood were defeated by a severe disease whose characteristic was alike to that of a bad burn. An expert physician was instructed to attend to the victims and handle this case. He was enthusiastic, but he didn't foresee that it was a hard challenge.

After simple inquiry, he announced that the polluted paint was to blame. But without positive evidence, people suspected and rejected his view, saying the theory he put forward made no sense. Being much more strict with himself, he contributed himself to the case.

Apart from making inquiries, he made detailed charts and analyzed the data cautiously. Finally, he drew a scientific conclusion, linking the disease to the radium in the pump.

Exposed to radium, a kind of radioactive material in the universe, people absorbed radiation and got sick immediately. Spinning the pump backward, he took away the radium. The simple movement cured all the victims.

The above is organized by Qicaiwang to help you with the 40 English short stories for mastering 3,500 words through immersive listening. Hope it helps you!