READING COMPRENSIÓN ARGENTINE URBAN LEGENDS “PEOPLE WHO THROW UNDER THE SUBWAY” People say there are lots of legends about subways in Argentina, and when a person wants to suicide, chooses fast solutions like the subway or the railway, but this one refers to the subway Two conductors from subway line E in Flores, Bs As, called Victor and Alfredo, travelled in a unit, talking and laughing about something Suddenly, they saw when a young woman threw from the platform and fell on the ways and they couldn’t stop, because of the speed When they passed over her, they felt how her bones were broken That night, when Victor went to bed, began to listen the bones’ cracking under the bed, the same he had heard in that moment, and day, after day, the noise was stronger and stronger One day, he decided to tell it to his partner Alfredo, who, of course, felt the same After some years, both of them retired from the subways and, after a few weeks, they didn’t listen the noise anymore It’s said that the alive people wants to die for something, just like sadness, troubles, injustices,and more things But, when they realise that, with the suicide, they can’t get to God, they regret and their souls show they’re suffering and want their innocent murderers know about this ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS A, What does the person when decide to suicide? B, What were the conductors’ names? C, What were they doing? D, What did they see? E, What did they feel? F, What happened that night? G,Did Alfredo feel the same? H,What happend when they retired? I, What alive people do? J, What their souls do? THE GHOST IN THE WATER TANK In a factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a plumber was repairing a water tank, and he always got on bad with one of his partners, Horacio When the plumber approached to check the tank, whose measure was of meters, Horacio pushed him into it and covered it When Horacio went out of the factory, a car killed him Three years later, the staff, who drank the water from the tank, began to feel sick, and they had to give up drinking and started to investigate Seven years later, the factory broke and the tank was toppled in order to put another one in the same place When one of the builders broke the tank, he hit the plumber’s skull with his rotting rests The tank was damaged by the plumber’s nails, who tried to escape On account of that, the builder’s name was Horacio, who died drowned in a swimming pool a time later It’s said that all the men called Horacio, who pass at the abandoned factory’s door, feel as if they can’t breath and, when they recover from that, a light goes out from the door, who is the plumber’s ghost, trying to attack him ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS A, WHERE DID IT HAPPEN? B, WHAT WAS THE PLUMBER DOING? C, WHO WAS HORACIO? D, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLUMBER? E, WHAT HAPPENED TO HORACIO? F, WHAT HAPPENED THREE YEARS LATER? G WHAT DID ONE OF THE BUILDERS DO? H, WHAT DID HE FIND? I,WHAT WAS THE BUILDER’S NAME? J, WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE MEN CALLED HORACIO?