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  Una camioneta mata a un ciclista Cyclist killed by delivery-van
[A delivery-van kills a cyclist].
     
1 Sevilla, lunes, 4 de Agosto.
- El cabo de aviación Felipe Martínez, de veintidós años,		 Sevilla, Monday, August 4 th.
- Air corporal Philip M., aged 22,
2 que venia esta mañana en bicicleta con dirección a Sevilla, who was coming this morning on [in] bicycle in [with] (the) direction of [to] Sevilla
3 fué alcanzado cerca del puente de Tablada por la camioneta was caught, near T. bridge, by the delivery-van
4 que hace el transporte de los obreros desde la base aérea a la capital (1). which ensures [makes] the conveyance of the workmen from the air-base to the town (see n. 1).
5 Felipe fué lanzado con gran violencia y cayo al suelo sin conocimiento. Ph. was thrown with [a] great violence and fell to the ground senseless [without sense].
6 Rápidamente fué recogido y trasladado a la Casa de Socorro (2). He was rapidly picked up and transferred to the First-Aid Station
7 donde comprobaron que había fallecido (3). where (they) found that he had died.
8 El cadáver ha sido trasladado al hospital para practicarle, la autopsia. The corpse has been transferred to the hospital for [to practice (on) it] the post-mortem operation.
  EJERCICIOS EXERCISE :
  - ¡Eh! Cierre usted la puerta, que hace mucho frío en la calle. - Hey! shut the door [that] (it) is [makes] very cold in the
street.
  - Pero... ¿Usted cree que si cierro la puerta hará en la calle menos frío? - But, do you think that if I shut the door, it will be [make]
less cold in the street?
     
  Cantar
Si tu madre te pregunta
que si me quieres a mí,
di con la boca que no,
con el corazón que sí.
If your mother asks you
[that] if you love [at] me,
say with your [the] mouth [that] no,
with your [the] heart [that] yes.
  NOTES.
1 The chief towns of each of the 49 Spanish provinces have kept their former title of "capital".
2

Alcanzar, to reach;
lanzar, to throw, launch;
caer, to fall;
recoger, to pick up;
trasladar, to transfer.
3 Comprobar, to find, ascertain;
fallecer, to decease.
   
 

To end our exercises of page 35, let's take :
1) hablar de prisa (hard s) : to speak quickly [of haste].
- 2) Comprender casi (hard s) todo : to understand nearly all.
- 3) Acudir en seguida (ghee) : to hasten up, or come up, immediately.