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 epidemic¹. The disease is spreading rapidly throughout the region. Residents are being provided with clean drinking water.
B Hurricane Lydia has devastated² 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 survivors³ in the rubble⁴. Sadly, countless⁵ people are missing. Because of aftershocks, all remaining survivors are being evacuated⁷.
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 monsoons⁸ have caused floods and landslides⁹ that are devastating¹⁰ 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 potent¹¹ 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 evacuate⁶ 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 collapsed¹² 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 flattened¹³.
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 horrifying¹⁴!
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.

1 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

2 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

3 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

5 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

6 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

7 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

8 monsoons   

n.（南亚、尤指印度洋的）季风( monsoon的名词复数 )；（与季风相伴的）雨季；（南亚地区的）雨季

参考例句：

• In Ban-gladesh, the monsoons have started. 在孟加拉，雨季已经开始了。 来自辞典例句
• The coastline significantly influences the monsoons in two other respects. 海岸线在另外两个方面大大地影响季风。 来自辞典例句

9 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。

10 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

11 potent   

adj.强有力的，有权势的；有效力的

参考例句：

• The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
• We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。

12 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

13 flattened   

[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的

参考例句：

• She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
• I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。

14 horrifying   

a.令人震惊的，使人毛骨悚然的

参考例句：

• He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was. 他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate. 战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。