Reading

我国地震分布

1) Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?

2) What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?

Bright lights flash in the skyBright lights flash in the sky

Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc.

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;

An EarthquakeAn Earthquake

A terrible earthquake happened in India.A terrible earthquake happened in India.

Tangshan, Hebei

July 28th, 1976

Reading

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.

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.

___ 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.

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.

Paragraph 4Part 3

The army came to help the survivors,

bringing hope for a new life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

He burst into laughter.

= He burst out laughing

He burst into tears.

= He burst out crying.

burst into+ n.

burst out + doing……

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

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

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

　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. 　　

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.

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

Everywhere they looked nearly everything was_________. destroyed

He ______ his girl friend’s prospectsruined

Soft wood ________easily.damages

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

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

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.

---Tom often works deep into the night

every day.

---No wonder he always gets first in the

examinations.

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.

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

• What can we do to reduce the damage of earthquakes?

• How can we protect ourselves and help others in the earthquake?

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.

1. Practice reading the whole text.

2. Finish off the exercise.

Learning about language.