四川省成都市第七中学2014-2015学年高一英语4月第3周周练试题
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Module 3 The Violence of Nature
What Is a Tornado?
A tornado is a 1)___________(rotate) column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. The
most 2) _______________ (violence) have winds of more than 400 kilometres 3) _______ hour.
Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the
north.
Tornadoes can pick 4) ___________ cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street – or even in the next town. They can take the fur 5) __________ the back of a cat and
the feathers 6) ___________ a chicken. They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside
exactly where it was.
7) __________ average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, 8) ___________(cause)
about 80 9)__________(die) and 1,500 10) ____________(injured). The worst tornado of all time
11) _____________(occur) in 1925, 12)______________(affect) three US states: Missouri, Illinois
and Indiana. By the time it ended, more than 700 people 13) _____________________(kill) and
2,700 had been injured.
What Is a Hurricane?
Hurricanes are strong tropical storms, and they usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more,
14) ____________ cause huge waves, heavy rain and floods. There are on average six Atlantic
hurricanes each year and they usually affect the east coast of US from Texas to Maine.
The worst hurricane disaster of all time occurred 15) ________ the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour and five-metre high waves hit the city. The
disaster killed 6,000 people in a population of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings.
An Extraordinary Event
This is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Charles Coghlan was 16)________ nineteenth-century Irish actor 17) ________ went to live in Canada. He then moved to New York, 18) _________________ he became famous. 19)______ the
1890s, he had moved to Galveston, where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane 20) ________
(strike). The cemetery 19) _____________ Coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and
Cohglan’s coffin ended up in the sea.
Eight years later, the coffin was found 20) _________ fishermen in the sea near his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada. The Gulf Stream had carried 21) __________ 3,000 kilometres up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island. Coghlan traveled back to Canada –after he had been buried in Texas!
CULTURAL CORNER
Earthquakes Around the Pacific
About 400 earthquakes occur worldwide every day, more than a hundred thousand in a year.
China is situated in one of the most active earthquake22) ___________ (regional) in the world and there have been many terrible earthquakes. The most serious of these occurred in Hua County in Shaanxi Province in 1556. The earthquake affected eight provinces in 23) __________(center) China. It covered 24) _________ area of 800 square kilometers. In some communities, 60 percent of the population were killed. In all, 830,000 people lost their lives.
The California Earthquake of the 18th of April 1906 is the worst earthquake 25) ______________ has ever happened in the United States. It took place at 5:15 a.m., and lasted for only a minute. 26)____________, it caused the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history.
Fires 27) _______________(cause) by the California Earthquake did the most damage. The fires burned 28) ______________ three days, 29) _____________ (destroy) a total of 25,000 buildings. About 500 people were killed in the city of San Francisco and 250,000 were made 30) ____________ (home). In the whole of California, the earthquake and fires caused about 3,000 deaths.
The 1906 earthquake was caused by a movement on the San Andreas Fault. One hundred years later, 31) __________________(move) on the San Andreas Fault continue to cause problems for the whole of California.。