Module3 The Violence of Nature Reading.docVIP

Book 3 Module 3 The Violence of Nature Reading I．背景知识: 一、（typhoon）飓风和台风都是指风速达到33米/秒以上的热带气旋，只是因发生的地域不同，才有了不同名称。出现在西北太平洋和我国南海的强烈热带气旋被称为“台风”；发生在大西洋、加勒比海和北太平洋东部的则称“飓风”。飓风在一天之内就能释放出惊人的能量。飓风与龙卷风也不能混淆。后者的时间很短暂，属于瞬间爆发，最长也不超过数小时。此外，龙卷风一般是伴随着飓风而产生。龙卷风最大的特征在于它出现时，往往有一个或数个如同“大象鼻子”样的漏斗状云柱，同时伴随狂风暴雨、雷电或冰雹。龙卷风经过水面时，能吸水上升形成水柱，然后同云相接，俗称“龙取水”。经过陆地时，常会卷倒房屋，甚至把人吸卷到空中。 II． 在课文中标出下列单词、短语和它们的含义。 1. Texas 得克萨斯州 2. South Dakota美国南达科他州 3. Missouri 密苏里州 4. Illinois 伊利诺伊州 5. Indiana 印第安纳州 6. the Atlantic Ocean 大西洋 7. the Caribbean Sea 加勒比海 8. the Gulf of Mexico 墨西哥湾 9. Maine 缅因州 10. Galveston 加尔维斯顿 11. Charles Coghlan 查尔斯.科格伦 12. Irish 爱尔兰 13. Prince Edward Island 爱德华王子岛 课上学案 Reading comprehension 阅读理解 I. Read What is a Tornado? and try to decide if these sentences are True or False. If they are false, please correct them.(判断正误并改错，并从文中找到对应点) ①A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. ( ) ②The most violent have winds of 4000 kilometres per hour. ( ) ③Tornadoes can pick up cars ,trains and even houses and put them down in the next street –or even in the next town. ( ) ④They can take the feathers off a chicken, but they couldn’t destroy houses. ( ) ⑤On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the UK each year, causing 80 deaths and 1500 injuries. ( ) ⑥The worst tornado was in 1925 and it killed 2700 people. ( ) II. Read What is a hurricane? and try to answer the following questions . What is a hurricane and where do they occur? 2) What happens at sea during a hurricane? 3) When was the worst hurricane and how many people died in it? III. Read the two passages and fill in the chart tornado hurricane Speed Winds of more than ______ ________per hour Winds of ______ ______per hour or more Place in the area from ____ ____ _____to South Dakota ____ ____ ______. In the _____Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexic