英语听力精选进阶版 7321

官方估计在独鲁万市和菲律宾其它受强台风“海燕”袭击的地区死亡人数为 1万人。没有食品、帐篷避难所和干净的引用水，生存者接下来的生活还很艰难。

Tacloban has been flattened¹. Driving down the main high street, hardly a single building is left standing². People say this town was hit by a wall of water when the typhoon struck on Friday.

There's the stench of rotting corpses³. Driving in from the airport we saw scores of bodies lying by the roadside. For three days they have been there – nobody to bury them. People are desperate for food, clean water and shelter. At the badly battered⁴ airport, a makeshift hospital has been set up. We saw two young women giving birth, laid out among the debris⁵.

Aid is getting in, but slowly and this is just one town in one province. Nobody knows the full extent of the devastation⁶ elsewhere.

Quiz 听力测验

1. True or false? In Tacloban, only single-storey buildings were left standing.

False. Hardly a single building is left standing.

2. Why have none of the bodies been buried?

There is nobody to bury them.

3. Where has the makeshift hospital been set up?

At the airport.

4. How bad is the extent of the devastation across the rest of the country?

Nobody knows the full extent of the devastation elsewhere.

Glossary 词汇表

flattened 被完全摧毁夷为平地

struck 袭击

stench 臭气、恶臭

scores 大量， 以二十计量的

shelter 避难所

battered 被严重损坏的

makeshift 临时代替品

debris 碎片，瓦砾

1 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。

2 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

3 corpses   

n.死尸，尸体( corpse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云，同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

4 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。

5 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

6 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》