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Unit 4　Earthquakes 课时作业（一）　Warming Up Reading Ⅰ．单词拼写 1．He ________（伤害）his left hand in a fire. 2．She wasn’t going to let her plans go to ________（毁灭）． 3．He has never recovered from the ________（震惊）of your brother’s death. 4．________（营救）workers were sent to relieve the trapped coal miners. 5．It was the second air ________（灾难）in the region in less than two months. 6．He follows me everywhere and it makes me feel so ________（困住的）． 7．A bomb________（爆炸）a few meters a way from where we stood. 8．He________（埋葬）the secret deep within himself. 9．The fire ________（破坏）all my books. 10．Let’s ________（躲藏）under this tree until the rain stops. Ⅱ．完形填空 When I was ten, I asked my neighborhood, “Which city is further west, Reno or Los Angeles?” The correct answer is Reno. But he was so__1__that Los Angeles was west of Reno that he was willing to bet me two__2__. So I went to get my map of the USA．The guy looked at it and said, “The map is not__3__at all.” Actually it was. However, he was bigger than me. So I didn’t__4__my two dollars. I__5__some conclusions from this story. There is such a thing as__6__, but we often benefit from ignoring it or directly__7__it. Also, truth is neither relative nor subjective. It may be__8__to find. But there is such a thing as truth and the pursuit of truth: trying to figure out what has really happened, trying to figure out how things__9__are. Almost 15 years ago, I__10__a story about a （n） __11__ man, who had been sentenced to death in Texas. And through hard work, I was able to make the movie The Thin Blue Line and to help get him out of __12__. What kept me going was the__13__that there had to be answers to the questions “Was he guilty or not?”, “If not, who was?” and that I could find answers to these questions through__14__. It’s not that we find truth with a big “T”. We investigate and sometimes we find things out and sometimes we don’t. There’s no way to know in __15__. It’s just that we have to go on as though there are answers to q