高一Unit 4 Earthquake學案及答案
8. why were so many people killed or injured?
9. who were trapped under the ruins when another quake shook tangshan?
10. what did the army do after the big quake?
answers:
1. because they were too nervous.
2. because they wanted to look for places to hide.
3. at about 3:00 am,on july28,1976.
4. because they were sleep when the quake happened.
5. at 3:42 am,on july 28,1976.
6. fifteen seconds.
7. more than 400,000.
8. because they didn’t expect the earthquake before it and didn’t prepare for it.
9. some of the rescue workers and doctors.
10. they dug out those who were trapped and buried the dead.
三. scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph
paragraph topic sentence position in the paragraph
1
2
3
4
answers:
strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast hebei. beginning
everything began to shake. it seemed as if the world was at an end. beginning
everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. beginning
all hope was not lost. beginning
四.read the text carefully again and find some detailed information from it.
paragraph1.
signs before an earthquake
what can see:_______________________________________________.
what can smell:_____________________________________________.
what can hear:_____________________________________________.
answers:water in the village wells rose and fell;the well walls had deep cracks in them;
the chickens and the pigs were too nervous to eat;mice ran out of the fields looking for place to hide ; fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds; there were bright lights in the sky;the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst.
a smelly gas came out of the cracks.
the sound of planes could be heard outside the city of tangshan even when no planes were in the sky.
paragraph2:
what happened in the earthquake
a huge crack________________________________________________________________.
steam _____________________________________________________________________.
hard hills of rock_____________________________________________________________.
in fifteen seconds_____________________________________________________________.
two-thirds of people__________________________________________________________.
thousands of families__________________________________________________________.