Unit 2 Natural disasters课文改编语法填空 -（2020）新牛津译林版高中英语必修第三册.docx

1、Unit Two Natural DisastersReadingA Pupils lives spared during Falmont earthquakeBy Raymond Tran18 MarchFALMONT-On 17 March, 476 students and 36 teachers at Falmont Primary School escaped an earthquake 1._ hit the county at 2:27 p.m. Only 5 students suffered slight injuries, 2. the current figures of

2、 7 killed and over 200 3. _(injure)in the disaster area 4. large.Alice Brown, head teacher at Falmont Primary School, was teaching 5._ the floor began to shake. Her students 6_(react)was quick and correct they moved under their desks, head first, and held on to the legs of the desks. At the same tim

3、e, Miss Brown quickly opened the classroom door, in case it became 7._(damage) during the shaking and could not open. There were loud crashes of glass breaking and things 8. (fall)to the ground, but the students remained still and waited calmly and quietly. ,The moment the shaking stopped, Miss Brow

4、n sensed it was the best time for the class to make their escape. She 9. (signal)to her students to exit the classroom in an 10. (order) line 11. (cover)their heads with their hands. Within one minute and twenty seconds, the whole class went down the stairs and rushed to the playground. Soon student

5、s from other lasses arrived too. After a roll call confirmed that all were safe and sound, they relaxed, laughing, crying and hugging each other.We practise earthquake 12. _(safe) procedures twice a year, said Miss Brown, so the kids were calm enough to protect themselves during the earthquake.Girl

6、saves 100 from tsunamiBy Jessie Cable21 DecemberNEWDALE- On 20 December, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore and left thousands dead.Goldshore Beach was the only local beach 11. (survive) the disaster without any 12. (lose) of life. A 10-year

7、-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape danger 13. her knowledge of tsunamis.The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, enjoying the warm sea air and the soft wind, that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of

8、 the happy tourists until she noticed something odd. The water was like the bubbles on the top of a beer, she later explained. It wasnt calm and it wasnt going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in. Sabrina had just learnt about tsunamis in a Geography lesson. It immediately 14. _ (oc

9、cur) to her that these were signs of an 15. (approach)tsunami.Sabrina was frightened, but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents 16. _ the danger, though at first they just thought she was joking.17. _ , Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was 18. its way and kept asking her parents

10、 to talk to a safety officer. To her great 19. (relieve), the officer immediately realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly cleared 20._people, just before the huge waves crashed into the coast. Extended readingThe Last Days of PompeiiEdward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was a talented British w

11、riter who left his mark on the English language. His classic novel The Last Days of Pompeii imagines life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the year 79, when MountVesuvius 1_(erupt). This terrible natural disaster destroyed Pompeii 2_(complete), but it also 3 _ (keep) the ancient city as it wa

12、s for future ages. Since 1748, Pompeii has been 4 _ (system) unearthed. Today it is an international tourist destination.Pompeii was a 5 _ (type) Roman city. In its little shops, its tiny palaces, its forum, its wine bars, its theatre-in the energy and skill of its people, you saw a model of the who

13、le Roman Empire. Trading ships 6 _ (bring) imports to the city or carrying exports overseas, along with golden pleasure boats for the rich, were crowded together in the glassy water of the port. The boats of the fishermen moved rapidly in all 7_ (direct). Above all, the cloud-capped top of Mount Ves

14、uvius appeared. Its ashy rocks, now dark, now light, told a story of past eruptions that might have warned the city 8 _ was to come!The awful night rolled slowly away, and the dawn greyly broke on THE LAST DAYOF POMPEII! The crowd looked upwards, and saw, with unspeakable fear, a huge cloud 9_ (shoo

15、t) from the top of the volcano. It took the form of a huge tree: the trunk, blackness, the branches, fire! This fire moved and changed in color with every moment: now it was wildly bright, now of a pale and dying red, and now again it burnt with an unbearable light! The cries of women broke 10_; the

16、 men looked at each other, but were silent. At that moment, they felt the earth 11_ (shake) beneath their feet; beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs. A moment later, the mountain-cloud seemed to roll towards them, dark and rapid, like a river; at the same time, it 12_ (throw

17、) out a shower of ashes and huge pieces of 13_(burn) stone! Over the empty streets-over the forum - far and wide- with many a 14_(noise) crash in the stormy sea -fell that awful shower!Each turned to fly-each running, pressing, pushing against the other. If, in thedarkness, wife 15 _ (separate) from

18、 husband, or parent from child, there was no hope of their meeting again. Each hurried 16_ (blind) and fearfully on. So came the earthquakeand 17_ ended life in Pompeii.Nearly seventeen centuries had rolled away before the city of Pompeii 18_ (dig) from its silent resting place. Its walls were fresh

19、 as if painted yesterday; not a single colour changed on the rich pattern of its floors. In its forum, the half-finished columns seemed as if just 19_(leave) by the workmans hand. Long after fire and ash came for the people of Pompeii, the remains of their beautiful city survive to remind us that hu

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