Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）第一册

The Night the Earth Didn't Sleep 1 2 Please read the passage very quickly and finish the two tasks: Summarize the main idea of the passage with no more than 10 words. (Your answer should include 3 points: what, when and where) Try to divide the passage into several parts and tell me what they are. 3 The main idea: A earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. The passage is divided into 3 parts before the earthquake during the earthquake after the earthquake time order 4 Can you find the topic sentence in the first paragraph? These signs showed the earthquake was coming. 5 At 3:42 a . m ., everything began to shake . It seemed as if the world were coming to an end ! Eleven kilometres directly below the city , one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun , a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing . Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it ! A huge crack , eight kilometres long and 30 metres wide , cut across houses , roads , and waterways . Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt . In less than one minute , a large city lay in ruins . Two thirds of the people who lived there were dead or injured . Thousands of children were left without parents . The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400,000. Everywhere survivors looked , there was nothing but ruins . Nearly everything in the city was destroyed . About 75 percent of the city ' s factories and buildings ,90 percent of its homes , and all of its hospitals were gone . Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves , but no wind could blow them away . Most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross . The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal . Tens of thousands of cows , hundreds of thousands of pigs , and millions of chickens were dead . Sand now filled the wells instead of water . People were in shock - and then , later that afternoon , another big quake shook Tangshan again . Even more buildings fell down . Water , food , and electricity were hard to get . People began to wonder how long the disaster would last . ②......A huge crack, ___ kilometres long and ___ metres wide, cut across houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. ____ of the people who lived there were dead or injured. ___________ children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than _______. ③......About ___ percent of the city's factories and buildings, ___ percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away...... _______________ cows, ___________________ pigs, and __________ chickens were dead. 8 30 2/3 Thousands of 400000 75 90 Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of millions of 6 Read the third part and tell me who came to the rescue? soldiers, doctors, nurses and workers. 7 Work in groups and discuss these questions: What kind of help do you think people who have suffered an earthquake need? What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city? 8 What kind of help do you think people who have suffered an earthquake need? water food shelters medical care What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city? strong support from the goverment tireless efforts of the city's people Answer the following questions: How many parts is the article divided into? A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 What is the writing order of this article? A. Time B. Space C. Logic 3. What does the second part of the article about? A. rescue B. damage C. Signs B A B 11 语法填空：(2018年高考真题） Earthquakes are quite common. In fact, thousands of earthquakes 1._____________(happen) almost at every moment. 2. __________, most of them are too weak to feel. During a big earthquake, there is often a big noise first. Then the earth shakes 3._________(terrible) and many houses fall down. As one of the most deadly disasters in the world, the earthquake often results 4.________ many people being injured or killed. In 2008, a severe earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province, 5.__________(kill) more than 80000 people there. are happening However terribly in killing 12 1. 反思整理错题 2. 背记题目中的重点词汇 common 普遍的，常见的 in fact 事实上 at every moment 每时每刻 too……to 太.....而不能 noise 声音，响声，噪音 fall down 倒下 result in 导致 be injured=get injured 受伤 13 Lavf58.20.100 $$