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Reading
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我国地震分布
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1) Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?
2) What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?
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Bright lights flash in the skyBright lights flash in the sky
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Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc.
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Predictions of an earthquake:
1) Bright lights flash in the sky;
3) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas;
4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc;
5) Mice run out to look for places to hide; 6) Fish jump out of the ponds.
2) The water in the well rise and fall;
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An EarthquakeAn Earthquake
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A terrible earthquake happened in India.A terrible earthquake happened in India.
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Tangshan, Hebei
July 28th, 1976
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Reading
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Join the correct parts of the sentences.
Do a fast-reading of the passage.
2 Before the earthquake the people they didn’t worry because
1 The chickens didn’t eat because
C they were nervous.
E they didn’t know the quake caused the strange events.
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3 Such a great
number of people
4 Water was needed
because
5 The people did not l
ose hope because
D dams and wells
were useless.
B the quake
happened while
they were
sleeping.
A the army
came to help
them.
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___ Brick buildings were destroyed.
___ The walls of the village wells had
cracks in them.
___ Shelters were put up for those with no
homes.
___ Roads got huge cracks.
___ The army helped the survivors.
Listen to the passage and number each of these things happened during the Tangshan earthquake.
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Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2Paragraph 3
Look at the each part and write down its main idea.
Part 1
Part 2
Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them.
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.
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Paragraph 4Part 3
The army came to help the survivors,
bringing hope for a new life.
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Retell the storyRetell the story
____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________cut across the city. The city lay _______.
Strange thingsrose and fell
cracks smelly gas
nervous
shakeat an end One-third felt
A huge crackin ruins
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Two-thirds of the people _____ or
___________. Then later that afternoon,
another big quake ______ Tang Shan.
People began to wonder
___________________________. But all
hope ____________. _______ came to
help those ________. Slowly, the city
began to _____________.
died
were injured
shook
how long the disaster would last
was not lost Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
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1. Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. imagine: form a mental picture imagine + n. /pron imagine sb. to be shake : cause to move to and fro
Language points
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right away : at once ; in no time ;
immediately
right now : at this very moment
Make up your mind___________.
I’ll return the book___________.
right now
right away
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He _____from his chair when the door
bell rang.
Her job is _______chickens.
Her temperature is still______.
He ________ in rank recently.
2. rise vi. & raise vt.
rose
raising
rising
has risen
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smelly : smell+ y = adj.
smell n./v (smelt/ smelled)
They were all hungry and the food ______goo
d.
I can ______something burning in the kitchen.
Please throw the _______fish away.
smelt
smell
smelly
3. A ______ gas came ___ __ the cracks.smelly out of
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4. … the water pipes in some buildings cracked and _____.burst
burst : to come open or fly apart suddenly
The balloon suddenly burst.
burst into + n.
Some robbers burst into that house.
burst out
burst out + doing
They burst out laughing.
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He burst into laughter.
= He burst out laughing
He burst into tears.
= He burst out crying.
burst into+ n.
burst out + doing……
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5. It seemed that the world was __ ___ ___.5. It seemed that the world was __ ___ ___.at an end
at the end of 用于表示具体事物或场所的场合,它也可以用来表示比喻意 ; by
the end of 用于表示时间的场合到……结束的时候,用语过去完成时态 ; in th
e end 意思“最后、终于”。
Compare: at the end of by the end of in the end
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1) . His father will return home _____
______this year.
2) . He will be a scientist __________.
3) . How many English words had yo
u learned ____________ last term?
at the end of
in the end
by the end of
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6. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city 6. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city laylay in_____. in_____.ruinsruins
lie (lay, lain): to be, remain or be kept in a certain statein ruins : severely damaged or destroyed
Compare: ruin ; destroy ; damage
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① damage 指部分“损坏”、“损害”、“破坏”或指使用价值有所降低。它可以用作动词 , 也可以用作名词 , 用作名词时常与 to something 连用。 The accident did a lot of damage to his car. ② destroy 只能用作动词 , 指彻底破坏 , 以致不可能修复 , 常作“破坏”、“毁灭”解 ,也可以指希望、计划等打破。 The earthquake destroyed almost the whole town.
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③ruin 则表示破坏严重 , 以致不能修复 , 但这种破坏不像 destroy 那样毁灭某物 , 而是强调致使该物的使用价值发生了问题。用作动词时 , 它作 “使毁灭”、 “使崩溃”、 “弄糟”解 ; 用作名词时 , 它表示 “毁灭”、 “瓦解”、 “废墟”等抽象概念。 ruin 也有借喻的用法。 The fire ruined the castle.
The house has fallen into ruin.
The company is facing ruin.
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The village ___in ruins after the war.
These machines have ____idle since the
factory closed.
An earthquake left the whole town_______.
His career is________.
lay
lain
in ruins
in ruins
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Everywhere they looked nearly everything was_________. destroyed
He ______ his girl friend’s prospectsruined
Soft wood ________easily.damages
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injure: to hurt oneself/ sb. / sth. physically injure: to hurt oneself/ sb. / sth. physically
7. Two-thirds7. Two-thirds of the people died or werof the people died or wer
e _______ during the earthquake.e _______ during the earthquake.injured
More than 61% of the surface of the earth
____covered by water.
Seventy percent of the workers in this facto
ry ____ young.
is
are
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Their criticisms _________him deeply.
Smoking will ________his health.
He was slightly ________in the car accident.
He got _________in the fighting.
What you said _____my feeling.
have hurt
injured
injured
wounded
hurt
Compare: injure ;
hurt ;
wound
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wonder : v.
A. to have a feeling of surprise.
B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt.
n. one that arouses astonishment,
surprise ; admiration
It is no wonder (that)= No wonder (that)
wonder8. People began to ________how long the
disaster would last.
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---Tom often works deep into the night
every day.
---No wonder he always gets first in the
examinations.
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9. All hope was not lost.
all…not … = not all…;some… but not all
Not all the children are left.
(= Only some of them left early.)
Not all the children are noisy.
(= Some of the children are not noisy.)
none of …..
None of us were allowed to go there.
None of these reports is very helpful.
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10. … bury the dead.
bury : A. to place in the ground
B. to occupy (oneself) with deep
concentration; absorb
The dog buried the bone in the ground.
I buried myself in my studies.
bury oneself in= be buried in
devote oneself to= be devoted to
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• What can we do to reduce the damage of earthquakes?
• How can we protect ourselves and help others in the earthquake?
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keys
1. Build houses along the lines where
two of the earth’s plates join together;
2. Build the houses on rock than on sand.
3. Make the houses as strong as possible,
weak buildings will fall down in an
earthquake.
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1. Practice reading the whole text.
2. Finish off the exercise.
Learning about language.