大学体验英语听说教程 第三册14

　　Unit 14 Disaster!

Vocabulary Task

Answer/Script

A Health authorities have reported an epidemic 1. The disease is spreading rapidly throughout the region. Residents are being provided with clean drinking water.

B Hurricane Lydia has devastated 2 South Carolina. The resulting floods have left hundreds of people homeless. The president has declared a state of emergency.

C A volcano erupted in the Philippines. The military has been searching for survivors 3 in the rubble 4. Sadly, countless 5 people are missing. Because of aftershocks, all remaining survivors are being evacuated 7.

Listening Task

1) First Listening

Answers

1. Floods in Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India.

2. A viral epidemic in Thailand.

3. Forest fire in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

4. An earthquake in Ecuador.

2) Second Listening

Answers

1. The Red Cross is currently entering the area to provide clean drinking water, in order to prevent the spread of disease.

2. Parents are being instructed to keep their children at home until the epidemic is under control.

3. Both the United States and Canadian governments are supplying helicopters to help with emergency evacuations.

4. The president is ordering the military into the area to help with rescue efforts.

Script

1. Heavy summer monsoons 8 have caused floods and landslides 9 that are devastating 10 Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India. The floods and landslides have killed over 600 people and have left 7 million homeless. Experts estimate that there has been $700 million of damage. The Red Cross is currently entering the area to provide clean drinking water, in order to prevent the spread of disease.

2. In Thailand, health authorities have reported that 47 children have died of a viral epidemic, and 134 others have been hospitalized. The potent 11 virus, which has symptoms much like the flu, has struck schools in the southern part of the nation. Parents are being instructed to keep their children at home until the epidemic is under control.

3. The Canadian government has declared a state of emergency in the western province of British Columbia, where forest fires have been raging for two weeks. The fires were caused by lightning storms. Over 5,000 square kilometers have been destroyed by the fires, and 10,000 people have had to evacuate 6 their homes. Both the United States and Canadian governments are supplying helicopters to help with emergency evacuations.

4. A powerful earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale, has shaken the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Rescue teams have just begun searching in the rubble of collapsed 12 buildings. At this point, 700 people have been repotted dead, and countless others are missing. The president is ordering the military into the area to help with rescue efforts.

Real World Listening

1. Predict

Answer

There was an earthquake and her building was destroyed.

2.Get the main idea

Answer

1. Margaret climbed out of bed and under the table. Julia just pulled the covers her head like it was a bad dream.

2. The door was jammed shut.

3. The whole first floor was gone—it was totally flattened 13.

4. The building crushed Mr. Sanchez. He lived in the first-floor apartment, and the second floor flattened the first floor.

Script

Anna: Margaret, what’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?

Margaret: The scariest thing? Surviving the San Jose earthquake.

Anna: You were in the San Jose earthquake? Tell me what happened.

Margaret: Well, I was living in an apartment downtown with my friend Julia. And we were still sleep on a Tuesday morning, and a little after six o’clock, there was this horrible sound and the floor was just bouncing and rolling like waves, all at the same time.

Anna: Oh my gosh! What did you do?

Margaret: well, it took a second or two to figure out what was going on—that it was an earthquake. Then I climbed out of bed and under the table, and I shouted at Julia to come, but she just pulled the covers over her head like it was a bad dream or something.

Anna: Whoa!

Margaret: It lasted 24 seconds, and then it stopped. And Julia and I could hear people talking outside, so we tried to go out the front door , but it was jammed shut. And then the first aftershock hit.

Anna: That must have been horrifying 14!

Margaret: Well, I remember that someone shouted, “Get out of there, quickly!” And we shouted back, “We can’t! The door won’t open.” So they said, “Well, come out the window.” But I called out, “it’s too high up,” because we were living on the second floor. “Not any more,” the person shouted back. So, we looked out the window and , sure enough, we were down on the ground!

Anna: Your second floor apartment was on the ground?

Margaret: We couldn’t believe it. We opened the window and crawled out, and somebody helped us over all this rubble. Once we were down safely, we turned around and looked back at our apartment building. The whole first floor was gone—it was just totally flattened. And then Julia looked at me and said, “Margaret. Mr. Sanchez!” He was this elderly man who lived on the first floor.

Anna: Oh, no. How horrible!

Margaret: Yeah. Julia and I both just burst into tears. He never had a chance.