Complete Unit 7 listening

Today I’m talking to Olivia Richardson,

who was in central Italy when o___ two metres of

snow f__l in 24 hours.

Where exactly were you, Olivia, when that happened?

Olivia: N___ (=close to) Capracotta, in the mountains. There’d already been some light snow and we stopped for a q____ meal before carrying on to a crossroads, 

but there we took a wrong tu_____ and got com_______ly lost.

Then, while we were trying to decide how to get back to the main road, some really heavy snow started coming down.

...heavy snow started coming down.

Interviewer: Was that fri________? (=scary)

Olivia: At first I was quite certain it wouldn’t last long.

Of course, it was ra____ annoying we’d gone the wrong way, but I couldn’t blame Mum and Dad because it'd been my idea. And we were still moving, but not very fast.

Interviewer: When did you have to stop?

Olivia: Well, it was getting quite difficult to see and we nearly cr_____ into a parked car.

It looked as if we'd be stuck there, but we didn't have ____ petrol left so we switched off the engine.

 We were still frozen, though, and wi____ we had some coffee or tea with us.

Olivia: The rescue vehicles didn't get there u___l the afternoon.

They’d called to ask if we needed an ambulance and luckily we didn’t, so they just cleared the snow and led us along the road back to the main road.

We then dr___ (by car) to the nearest village. There we stopped for an enormous hot meal of roast fish and pasta with cheese, the most de_______ (=very tasty) I've ever tasted!