Unit 9

Part I

A

1. 60,000 / 8.75

2. 452 / 8.3

3. 100,000 / 8.6

4. 8.9 / 2,990

5. 1,530

6. 12, 000 / 5.8

7. 7.1 / 12,230

8. 7.5 / 22,778

9. 6.8 / 25,000

10.6.7 / 50,000

11.9.1 / 300,000

12.69,197 / 18,341

B:

1. Ice, snow, earth, rock / the side of a mountain

2. a slow-moving mudflow

3. the sudden release / waves of shaking

4. system of winds / about 30 to 50 kilometers an hour

64 knows or 74 miles per hour / in the western Atlantic Ocean

10. A violent destructive whirling wind / of short duration

11. 74 mph / in the Pacific Ocean

12. A period of dryness / prevents their successful growth

13. A body of water / normally dry land

14. a wildfire or an uncontrolled fire

Suicide bomber

C

10.6.8 a bomb explosion in Algiers / in a market area

10.6.9 ocean storm / the Pacific coast of Mexico

10.6.10 the cause of a crash of a passenger plane / All 143 people /

Wednesday

10.6.11 Austrians / the 38 people / at ski area

10.6.12 the hijacker / released his remaining hostages and surrendered to

police

10.6.13 Japanese / the nuclear reaction / has stopped

victims of a train accident / 189 / Thursday / 250

15. Russian and Norwegian divers / the sunken Russian nuclear

submarine

16. 12 / heavy rains / homes and bridges / some road became rivers of

flood waters.

17.deadly storm / Europe / transportation delays / airports to close /

more than 115 people

18.Sunday’s earthquake / Turkey / more than 1,200 / 50 villages

19.fires / Sydney / under control / new flare-ups

Part II

A

A fire from an oil pipeline explosion

Thursday

More than 50 people dead

Near Lagos

A fuel-loading area / Nigeria’s

Stealing fuel from leaking pipes / vandal

20. NIGERIA – more than 50 people have died in a fire from an oil

pipeline explosion near Lagos. The explosion and fire happened

near a fuel-loading area owned by Nigeria’s National Petroleum

Corporation. This is the latest in a series of pipeline fires in

Nigeria this year. The fires have killed hundreds of people. The

government says people who steal fuel from leaking pipes caused

some of the fires. It also blames people who cause damage on

purpose.

21. More than 50 people are dead in Nigeria after a leaking oil

pipeline burst into flames outside the commercial capital Lagos.

The blast and resulting fire Thursday ripped through an area near

a fuel-loading depot owned by the state-run Nigerian National

Petroleum Corporation. Witnesses report seeing burned bodies

littering the charred grounds while many other victims are being

treated for injuries sustained in the blaze. A spokesmanfor the

petroleum company says the fire was caused by a vandal.

Ski resort wire aboard operator unhurt crew

B

10.6.14 a cable car accident at a ski resort in northern Italy

10.6.15 a. American military plane / cut the wires / low-level flight

b. 20

c. 60 kilometers away

d. started investigation / suspended low-level missions

An accident at a ski resort in northern Italy in which an American

military plane cut the wires of a cable during a low-level training

flight has killed 20 people. One car plunged about 100 meters into

the snow, killing everyone aboard. An operator was rescued

unhurt from a second car left dangling in the air after the accident.

The plane returned to its base 60 kilometers away, the crew

unaware of the accident. Commanders of the base have since

started an investigation and suspendedall low-level missionsin

Italy until further notice.

Questions:

a. What is the cause of the disaster?

b. How many people have been killed?

c. How far away is the military base?

d. What have the commanders of the base done since the

accident?

C

22. floods and landslide

Venezuela

Homes of 140,000– 150,000 people destroyed

30,000 people killed

poor city planning

15 billion dollars

23. a. to give quick and generous aid toeVnezuela

b. to build new housing for those homeless people

c. in stadiums, car parks, airports and military barracks

d. plain areas away from the coast

10.6.16 Venezuela --- tens of thousandsof people affected by recent

floods and landslides are preparing to spend the Christmas

and New Y ear holidays in shelters. Officials estimate that the

homes of as many as 140,000 people were destroyede.nVezuela

officials say the floods and landslides may have caused the

death of as many as 30,000 people. Experts say poor city

planning was a major cause f the damage. Many houses were

built on weak ground of on the side of mountains along the

northern coast. The Venezuela Defense Minister says survivors

need to cooperate with government efforts to move them away

form the coastal area.

10.6.17 The United Nations has urged the international community to

give quick and generousaid to Venezuela to help it recover

from last week’s devastating floods and mudslides. A

resolution passed in the general assembly said it was deeply

concerned over the tremendous loss of life and severe

destruction of the country. As many as 30,000 people are

thought to have been killed. Officials have estimated the relief

and reconstruction efforts as costing some 15 billion do.llar

Officials here say that reconstruction efforts could take several

years to complete. They say the priority is to build new

housing for the 150,000 people who’ve been made homeless.

These people are now sleeping in emergency shelters set up

in stadium, car parks, airports and military barracks.

President Hugo Chavez says that he is looking at several

different places across the country in which to build new

houses, all in plain areas away from the coast. M. rChavez says

that the government will not rebuild houses in the parts of the

northern coastal region destroyed by floods and landslides.

Relief efforts are continuing in damaged coastal regions

Questions:

a. What has the United Nations urged the international

community to do?

b. According to Venezuela officials, what is the priority now?

c. Where are the emergency shelters set up?

d. According to President Hugo Chavez, where will the new

houses to built?

Part III

24. heavy rains / the spread of

25. people’s hopes of a good season

26. one of the best months

whole life / not a season like this / not rains like this

crops flooded / difficult / meet requirements / consumers /

crops destroyed

struggling / not supply 100% / something

hello! For the last two weeks, w’eve reported how heavy rains have

contributed to the spread of Rift V alley Fever in Kenya. This week,

we hear how the continuing torrential storms in that region are

washing away Kenya horticulture’s hopes a good season.

Sarah Rannoe is just back form Nairobi.

Now there’s never a good time for heavy rainfall such as this. But

for the horticulture industry, Sarah, this must be a particularly bad

time for heavy beating rain.

Well, January should be one of the best months for growers of fruit,

vegetables and flowers in Kenya. Hot, dry, sunny days and peak

production destined for consumers shivering in the European winter

and longing for a taste African sunshine. But in Kenya, as elsewhere,

the weather is not behaving as it should. Months of rain, often

torrential, is washing away hopes of a good harvest. Flowers are

reluctant to flower. And perhaps worst hit are growers of peas and

French beans.

“In the whole of my life and I ’m talking about somebody who is

over 60 years old. I ’ve not experienced a season like thisT. he whole

of that period, I ’ve not seen rains like this in January in Kenya”.

James Masengi, chairman of the Fresh Produce Exporters’

Association of Kenya, who speaks not only for his members but out

of personal and bitter experience.

“Crops are flooded. We are finding it even difficult to meet the

requirement of our consumers becauscerops have been destroye”d.

Are you going to be able to keep your business orders up to date?

Are you going to complete your export orders?

Yes we are struggling very much to keep the export orders. In some

places, we are not able to supply them 100 percent, but we are

supplying something.

James Masengi.

B

Very little happiness disease pressure / slows down

growth / production down 30%

Some / deficiency

If sunshine in the next month /

catch up a lot

No / sales on contract price

Maize

Threat of disease

Pick & transport / nightmare /

roads / impossible conditions

听力原文：

And for growers of roses, the flower associatedwith love and

romance, there’s very little happiness in the air. Ian Maroe is

managing director of CN Roses Limited, one of Kenya’s leading rose

exporters.

“Cold, cloudy, wet weather increase disease pressure and slows

down growth. So our production is probably down a six-month figure,

is down 30%.”

Are you disappointing your customers?

“Some. We try to keep the more important ones contented, but some

are definitely disappointed. Definitely. Yeah.”

Do you think you’ll be able to pick up over the course of the

season?

“The bad weather as such will continue for a depressinglylong

time according to the forecast. But if we get sunshine in the next

month or so, we’ll be able to catch up quite a lo”t.

Are you making up the short fall in production by an increase in

price?

“Uh, no, because a lot of our sales are on the contract pri”ce.

Ian Morae.

And I should add that even more of Kenya ’s crops are in trouble.

Maize has suffered badly. Coffee isunder constant threat of disease.

And although tea is growing well,getting it picked and transported is

a nightmare on roads that become all but impossible in these

conditions. But the greatest fear is that the rain could be followed by

the opposite: drought.

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