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Unit 4 Earthquakes
黑龙江省哈尔滨市 邱尚瑛
学案与同步练习 Unit 4-2 Reading (1)
I. Read the passage of A Night the Earth didn’t Sleep, then close your book and fill in the blanks.
1. Strange things ____________ in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, ____________.
2. Farmers noticed that the well walls had ____________ in them. A ____________ came out of the cracks.
3. The chickens and even the pigs were ____________ to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish ____________ their bowls and ponds.
4. The water pipes in some buildings ____________. But the one million people of the city, ____________ little of these events, were asleep as usual the night.
5. Everything began ____________. It seemed ____________ the world was at an end!
6. It ____________ in Beijing, ____________ is more than two hundred kilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it.
7. A ____________ that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut ____________ houses, roads and canals.
8. Thousands of families ____________ and many children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or ____________.
9. But how could ____________ believe it was natural Everywhere they looked nearly every thing ____________.
10. ____________ they looked nearly every thing was destroyed. Bricks ____________ the ground like red autumn leaves.
11. People ____________. Another big quake which was almost ____________ the first one shook Tangshan.
12. Some of the rescue workers and doctors ____________ under the ruins. More buildings ____________. Water, food, and electricity were hard to get.
13. Hundreds of thousands of people ____________. The army organized teams to dig out those ____________and to bury the dead.
14. most of the 10,000 miners ____________ from the coal mines there. Workers built shelters for survivors ____________ had been destroyed.
15. Fresh water ____________ to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began ____________again.
【参考答案】
1. were happening ; rose and fell
2. deep cracks ; smelly gas
3. too nervous ; jumped out of
4. cracked and burst ; who thought
5. to shake ; as if
6. was felt ; which
7. huge crack ; across
8. were killed ; seriously injured
9. the survivors ; was destroyed
10. Everywhere ; covered
11. were shocked ; as strong as
12. were trapped ; fell down
13. were helped ; who were trapped
14. were rescued ; whose homes
15. was taken ; to breathe
II. Make sentences using the words given.(使用所给词或短语造句)
1. 他昨晚没做作业就睡觉了。(without)
2. 在那以后不久,他找到了一份新的工作。(not long after)
3. 我们对建筑所遭的破坏感到震惊。(shock at)
4. 如果必要,我们可用铝代钢。(instead of)
5. 这已经给动物们带来了可怕的灾难。(suffering)
6. 救援人员一直在倒塌的建筑物废墟中挖掘救人。(rescue)
7. 在这个光秃秃没有树木的地方,周围数英里内都没有掩蔽处。(shelter)
8. 这栋大楼被大火彻底烧毁了。(destroy)
9. 他们正在我们正上方的木匠铺里休息。(directly)
10. 救援人员正在废墟中挖掘,搜寻着其他的受害者。(rubble)
【参考答案】
1. He went to bed without doing his homework last night.
2. Not long after that, he got a new job.
3. We were all shocked at the structural damage.
4. If necessary, we can use aluminium instead of steel.
5. It has caused terrible suffering to animals
6. Rescue workers have been digging people out of collapsed buildings.
7. No shelter was available for miles around in this treeless landscape.
8. The building was completely destroyed by fire.
9. They are sleeping in the carpenter's shop directly above.
10. Rescue workers are digging through the rubble in search of other victims.
III. Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions in the text and translate them into Chinese.
1. Their voices _________________ just like that the waves on the shore.
(起起伏伏)
2. He ________________ the house and disappeared in the dark. (从……里出来)
3. They are ____________ what is going on. (太年幼了以至于不明白)
4. He tried to varnish over the facts, but it was ____________ . (无用的)
5. Many buildings ________________ during the earthquake. (倒塌)
6. High winds can ___________ from flat or hilly terrain. (吹走松土)
7. Once you lose something it is ___________ it back. (难以得到)
8. It is the readers who _____________ new life into a newspaper with their letters.
(有生机)
【参考答案】
1. rose and fell 他们的声音时高时低,就像岸边的波浪一样起起伏伏。
2. came out of 他从这所房子里面走出来,消失在了黑暗中
3. too young to understand 他们太小了,不能明白发生了什么事。
4. useless 他想粉饰事实,但那是徒劳的。
5. fell down 在地震中许多楼房倒塌了。
6. blow away loose soils 疾风能吹走平地或山坡区域的松土。
7. very hard to get 一旦你失去了某种东西,你就很难再挽回了。
8. breathe 正是读者通过来信给报纸带来了新的生机。
IV. Translate the following sentences into Chinese
1. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds.
2. The one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual the night.
3. Eleven kilometers directly below the Tangshan city, the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun.
4. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.
5. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.
6. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme.
7. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins. More buildings fell down.
8. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
9. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane.
10. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
【参考答案】
1. 农家大院里的鸡,甚至猪都紧张得不想吃食。老鼠从田地里跑出来找地方藏身。鱼缸和池塘里的鱼会往外跳。
2. 这座城市的一百万居民几乎都没有把这些情况当一回事,当天晚上照常睡着了。
3. 二十世纪最大的一次地震就在唐山市正下方11公里处发生了。
4. 一条8公里长30米宽的巨大裂缝横穿房屋、马路和管道。
5. 地上一些洞穴冒出了蒸气。石头山变成了泥沙河,
6. 在可怕的15秒钟内,一座大城市就沉沦在一片废墟之中。人们遭受的灾难极为深重。
7. 有些医生和救援人员被困在废墟下面。更多的房屋倒塌了。
8. 数十万的人得到了救助。部队官兵组成小分队,将受困的人们挖出来,将死者掩埋。
9. 援救人员为那些家园被毁的幸存者盖起了避难所,用火车、卡车和飞机向市内运来了水。
10. 慢慢地,这座城市又重新开始出现了生机。
V. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs.
1. right __________ 毫不迟疑,立刻
2. It seemed __________ 看来好像;似乎
3. __________ the weight of 在……重压下
4. __________ the open air 在户外,在野外
5. take turns __________ do sth. 依次,轮流做某事
6. be shocked __________ 对……感到震惊
7. be proud __________ 以……为自豪
8. __________ warning 毫无预兆
9. next __________ 紧接着,相邻
10. get away __________ 摆脱,离开
11. hold __________ 举起
12. make __________ 虚构;整理;拼凑
13. be trapped __________ 被困于……
14. be fixed __________ 被固定到……
15. be tied __________ 被绑在……
【参考答案】
1.away 2. as if 3. under 4. in 5. to 6. at 7. of 8. without
9. to 10. from 11. up 12.up 13. in 14. to 15. to
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