2017-2018学年高中英语 Module 3 The Violence of Nature Section Ⅰ Introduction Reading课时作业 外研版必修3.docVIP

Module 3 The Violence of Nature Section Ⅰ Introduction Reading Ⅰ.根据提示写出单词(注意用其适当形式) 1．What ________ (导致) her to change her mind? 答案：caused 2．People say that lightning never ________(袭击) twice in the same place. 答案：strikes 3．The poor child had never ________ (经历) kindness. 答案：experienced 4．Before they moved into the new building, they bought a lot of new ________(家具)． 答案：furniture 5．They dug a pit to ________(掩埋) the rubbish. 答案：bury 6．At the beginning of June an event ________ (发生)． 答案：occurred 7．She could not bear his ________ (猛烈的) temper. 答案：violent 8．A ________ (羽毛) floats in the air, especially on a windy day. 答案：feather 9．There are a great many great ________ (灾难) in the history of China. 答案：disasters 10. The ________ (洪水) season still has several weeks to run this year. 答案：flood Ⅱ.阅读理解 A The US government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake belts. The government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help to discover the answers to these two questions： Can we predict earthquakes? Can we control earthquakes? To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault (断层) systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earths surface. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur. Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes correctly. And the control of earthquakes is even farther away. However, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into