1、大学体验英语上机答案 U14Unit 14 Disaster!Vocabulary TaskAnswer/ScriptA Health authorities have reported an epidemic. The disease is spreading rapidly throughout the region. Residents are being provided with clean drinking water.B Hurricane Lydia has devastated South Carolina. The resulting floods have left hu
2、ndreds 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 in the rubble. Sadly, countless people are missing. Because of aftershocks, all remaining survivors are being evacuated.Listening Task1) Fi
3、rst ListeningAnswers1. 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 ListeningAnswers1. The Red Cross is currently entering the area to provide clean drinking water, in
4、 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 th
5、e area to help with rescue efforts.Script1. Heavy summer monsoons have caused floods and landslides that are devastating 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
6、 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 virus, which has symptom
7、s 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 hav
8、e 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 their homes. Both the United States and Canadian governments are supplying helicopters to help with emergency evacuations.4. A
9、 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 buildings. At this point, 700 people have been repotted dead, and countless others are missing. The president is ordering t
10、he military into the area to help with rescue efforts. Real World Listening1. PredictAnswerThere was an earthquake and her building was destroyed.2.Get the main ideaAnswer 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 wa
11、s jammed shut.3. The whole first floor was goneit was totally flattened.4. The building crushed Mr. Sanchez. He lived in the first-floor apartment, and the second floor flattened the first floor.ScriptAnna: Margaret, whats the scariest thing that ever happened to you?Margaret: The scariest thing? Su
12、rviving 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 oclock, there was this horrible sound and the floor was ju
13、st 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 onthat 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 o
14、ver 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!M
15、argaret: Well, I remember that someone shouted, “Get out of there, quickly!” And we shouted back, “We cant! The door wont open.” So they said, “Well, come out the window.” But I called out, “its too high up,” because we were living on the second floor. “Not any more,” the person shouted back. So, we
16、 looked out the window and , sure enough, we were down on the ground!Anna: Your second floor apartment was on the ground?Margaret: We couldnt 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 o
17、ur apartment building. The whole first floor was goneit 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
