1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 天气与自然灾害类 单词识记： cause dangerous death storm terrible blow climate terrify flood freeze disaster forecast shake shelter strike cloudy panic pour warmth shower 短语扫描 ： be/get caught in 陷入；被困住 be/get stuck in 卡住；陷入 burn.to the ground 全部焚毁；烧为平地 clear up(天气 )转晴；清理；解决 weather forecast 天气预报 set
2、.on fire/set fire to 使 ? 燃烧；放火烧 ? blow down 吹倒 dry up (河流、湖泊等 )干涸 in ruins 成为废墟；严重受损 become a victim to 成为 ? 的牺牲品 跟踪训练 . 语境填词 1.I kept my friend back from the (danger) animal. 2.He suffered (terrible) all through his illness. 3.The tidal wave formed a (terrify) wall of water. 4.Four of them walked u
3、nder a (cloud) sky and all ended up walking in circles. 5.The old lady received him with unusual (warm). . 单项填空 6.I prefer a table that can be when not used so that it may save a lot of space. A.cleared up B.folded up C.fixed up D.taken up 【 精品教育资源文库 】 7.The sharp fall of the stock market caused a
4、. A.panic B.surprise C.delight D.hit 8.The failure was a big to him， but he wasnt discouraged and soon got as enthusiastic as ever.(2015 福建， 24) A.blow B.issue C.excuse D.factor 9.She wanted to ask if he had news of Williams， but words in her throat. A.burst B.stuck C.broke D.settled 10.The plan was
5、 in just because people were unwilling to cooperate. A.ruins B.pieces C.danger D.trouble . 阅读理解 Like many new graduates， I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do.My degree， with honours， in English literature had not really prepared me for anything p
6、ractical.I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow， but I had no idea how to do that.Thats when I learned about the Lighthouse Project. I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers.I knew it would be
7、 a lot of hard work， and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time.In short， I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly.Neither did my family. Eventually， however， I won the support of my family， and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the ap
8、plication.After countless interviews and presentations， I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone.Several months later，I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty.I would be going to a small village near Abuja， Nigeria.Where？ What？ Nigeria？ I had no idea.B
9、ut I was about to find out. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 After completing my training， I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation.Though the local villagers were poor，they offered their homes， hearts， and food as if I were their own family.I was asked to lead a small t
10、eam of local people in building a new schoolhouse.For the next year or so， I taught in that same schoolhouse.But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me. Sometime during that period， I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longe
11、r did， though I did not get anywhere with the local language， and I returned to the United States a different man.The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever. 1.According to Paragraph 2， it is most likely that the author . A.discussed his decision with his family B.asked previous volunteers a
12、bout voluntary work C.attended special training to perform difficult tasks D.felt sad about having to leave his family and friends 2.In his application for the volunteer job， the author . A.participated in many discussions B.went through challenging survival tests C.wrote quite a few papers on volun
13、tary work D.faced strong competition from other candidates 3.On arrival at the village， the author was . A.asked to lead a farming team B.sent to teach in a schoolhouse C.received warmly by local villagers D.arranged to live in a separate house . 任务型阅读 Climate change has had a big impact on the timi
14、ng of river floods across Europe over the past 50 years， according to a new study.In some regions， such as southern England， floods are now occurring 15 days earlier than they did half a century ago.But the changes arent uniform ， with rivers around the North Sea seeing floods delayed by around eigh
15、t days. Floods caused by rivers impact people more than any other natural disaster，and the estimated global damages run to over 100 billion dollars a year.Researchers 【 精品教育资源文库 】 have long predicted that a warming world would have direct impacts on these events but until now the evidence has been
16、hard to establish.Floods are affected by many different factors in addition to rainfall， such as the amount of moisture(水分 ) already in the soil and other factors such as changes in landuse that can speed up water runoff(地表径流 ) from hillsides. This new study looks at this issue in some depth， by cre
17、ating a Europewide database of observations from 4,262 hydrometric stations in 38 countries， dating back to 1960.The analysis finds a clear but complex impact of climate change on river flooding.The most consistent changes are in northeastern Europe around Scandinavia where earlier snow melt due to
18、warmer temperatures is leading to earlier spring floods.Around 50% of monitoring stations are seeing floods eight days earlier than 50 years ago. The biggest changes are seen along the western edge of Europe， from Portugal up to southern England.Half of the stations recorded floods at least 15 days
19、earlier than previously.A quarter of the stations have seen flooding more than 36 days earlier than in 1960.In these regions， the issue isnt snow melt its more about soil of high humidity(湿度 ).Maximum rainfall tends to occur in the autumn and gets stored in the soils.Heavier and earlier rain means t
20、hat the groundwater reaches capacity earlier. In southern England， it has been raining more， longer and more intensely than in the past.This has created a rising groundwater table and higher soil moisture than usual and combined with intense rainfall that produces earlier river floods.However，around
21、 the North Sea， in the Netherlands， Denmark and Scotland， the trend is towards later floods.The scientists believe this is due to changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation(NAO)， the weather phenomenon that pushes storms across the ocean into Europe.The NAO is driven by differences in atmospheric pre
22、ssure between the Icelandic low and the Azores high.Recently， rapid changes in temperatures in the Arctic are influencing these pressure levels and changing the track of the storms as well.According to this study， the storms are arriving later and as a result some river flooding happens later too.Th
23、is study shows clear evidence of the impacts of humaninduced climate change in many regions but there are still some areas of uncertainty.The study foresees subtle but significant impacts that could arise from the change in flood timing. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 Climate Change Has 4. the Timing of European Flo
24、ods The introduction A new study finds that climate change has had a great influence on the timing of European floods over the past 50 years. The background of the study Floods which are caused by rivers impact people most compared to other natural disasters and can lead to a great 5. loss. There is a prediction by researchers that climate change would 6. influence the timing of European floods， but there has been no evidence to prove that. Many different factors shoul
