Unit 4 Natural Disasters 单元话题语法填空练习-2023-2024学年九年级英语下册单元重难点易错题精练（沪教牛津版）

Unit 4 Natural Disasters 单元话题语法填空练习 （2022上·辽宁阜新·九年级阜新实验中学校考期末）用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。 A ten-year-old girl saved about one hundred other tourists in 2004 by warning 1 (they) that a tsunami, a huge ocean wave, was on its 2 (way) across the sea. She knew what 3 (happen) because she learned about underwater earthquakes at school only a few weeks earlier, a newspaper reported. “I was 4 the beach and the water started to go funny,” Tilly Smith told the 5 (report) from the newspaper. “There 6 (be) bubbles and the water went back suddenly. I knew there was going to be a tsunami. I told Mum,” she said. Tilly’s mother and the hotel workers acted 7 (quick). They cleared people from the beach just minutes 8 a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died. Tilly’s teacher was very proud 9 her. “She’s a very clever girl. It is very 10 (luck) that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas,” he told the newspaper. （2023·江苏泰州·泰州市第二中学附属初中校考三模） Firefighters in Chongqing, a city in Southwest China, have put out an outbreak of major wildfires caused by extreme heatwaves in only nine days. They dealt with this by lighting a fire and linking it with the burning forest fire in 11 opposite direction. The two fires 12 (lead) to a sudden shortage of oxygen which effectively stopped the fire. On the night of August 25, forest fire teams from neighbouring Yunnan province decided to set a backfire with these two conditions. Firstly, a forest isolation (隔离) belt was set by large numbers of volunteers, 13 (clear) away any possible combustible (易燃的) materials for the ongoing wildfire. So when this fire came, nothing 14 (leave) to burn. Secondly, firefighters grabbed a perfect chance when the wind changed is direction. They followed the wind blowing from the north to the south and put out a new fire that flared (燃烧) up and ran into the wildfire. The wh