(
课件网) Unit 4 Earthquakes 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 2015年4月25日,尼泊尔发生里氏8.1级特大地震。塞西莉亚和弟弟山姆亲身经历了这次地震并记录下了他们的所见所闻和感受。 Two kids experience Nepal earthquake “Ceci,take care!It’s an earthquake!”That’s what Cecilia Wallace heard her mother shouting on the afternoon of April 25th. Cecilia was a 7th-grader.She,her parents and her brother,Sam,were in Nepal’s capital city,Kathmandu.A big earthquake hit Nepal that day. “It was so frightening,”Sam wrote.“The shaking was so huge that I will never go on a fair ride again.” Cecilia and Sam wrote about their earthquake experiences.Their reports were later posted on the website. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 Cecilia,Sam and their parents were staying in an apartment on the 15th floor of a building.They were lucky.Their building stayed standing,because it was built to withstand1 earthquakes. Not everyone was as fortunate as the Wallace family.Thousands of people died.Many older buildings collapsed2 during the earthquake. The damage in Kathmandu wasn’t as bad as in other parts of Nepal.So the supermarkets were open for business on the afternoon of that day.But it wasn’t business as usual.“The supermarkets have been crazy with people rushing to buy their food for the next while,”Sam wrote. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 Not everyone was able to get money to buy food that afternoon.So Cecilia and Sam made food bags to give out to people who were begging outside the supermarket.“We gave some to a kid who was my age.I made sure he got cookies and bread.”Sam and Cecilia’s mother wrote that the kids also collected money for the Red Cross. It’s certainly an experience Cecilia,Sam and their parents will never forget.Thankfully,they lived to tell their stories. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 1.withstand /wI??st?nd/ v.承受 2.collapse /k??l?ps/ v.倒塌 难句剖析 导读诱思 单词注释 “The supermarkets have been crazy with people rushing to buy their food for the next while,”Sam wrote. 译文:山姆写道:“超市里挤满了人,他们匆忙购买食物为后面一段时间做储备。” 剖析:句中rushing to buy their food for the next while 是动词的-ing形式短语做定语,修饰people。 难句剖析 导读诱思 单词注释 1.What protected Sam’s family from being injured? 2.What did Cecilia and Sam do to help others? 答案:The apartment they lived was built to withstand earthquakes. 答案:They made food bags to give out to those begging outside the supermarket.They also collected money for the Red Cross. Section Ⅰ— Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading & Comprehending 一 二 三 四 五 一、看下面的图片, 回答下列问题 自然灾害对人类社会所造成的危害往往是触目惊心的。它们之中既有地震、火山爆发、泥石流、海啸、台风、洪水等突发性灾害, 也有地面沉降、土地沙漠化、干旱等在较长时间中才能逐渐显现的渐变性灾害。看看下面的几幅图片, 回答问题。 一 二 三 四 五 一 二 三 四 五 1.What disasters are they? A.Earthquake B.Flood C.Volcano eruption D.Drought E.Tsunami ① ② ... ...
