Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit12:Dictation Item(9)

 　　Item Nine.

　　Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh.

　　More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered¹ the coast.

　　Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.

　　WIth the help of international donors² and aid organizations, Indonesia has built more than 100,000 houses to replace those destroyed in the disaster.

　　That puts housing reconstruction³ three months ahead of schedule.

　　Teams are on target to finish 20,000 more by next April.

　　Other new construction includes 2,000 kilometers of roads and about 800 schools.

　　International donors have spent 4.6 billion dollars to rebuild Aceh.

　　The multi-donor fund was scheduled to finish its activities in 2010, but now plans to extend work until 2012 to help with the transition.

1 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

2 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 reconstruction   

n.重建，再现，复原

参考例句：

• The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
• In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。