Unit 9
Part I
A
1. 60,000 / 8.75
2. 452 / 8.3
3. 100,000 / 8.6
4. 8.9 / 2,990
5. 1,530
6. 12, 000 / 5.8
7. 7.1 / 12,230
8. 7.5 / 22,778
9. 6.8 / 25,000
10. 6.7 / 50,000
11. 9.0 / 300,000
12. 69,197 / 18,341
B:
1. Ice, snow, earth, rock / the side of a mountain
2. a slow-moving mudflow
3. the sudden release / waves of shaking
4. system of winds / about 30 to 50 kilometers an hour
5. 64 knows or 74 miles per hour / in the western Atlantic Ocean
6. A violent destructive whirling wind / of short duration
7. 74 mph / in the Pacific Ocean
8. A period of dryness / prevents their successful growth
9. A body of water / normally dry land
10. a wildfire or an uncontrolled fire
Suicide bomber
C
1. a bomb explosion in Algiers / in a market area
2. ocean storm / the Pacific coast of Mexico
3. the cause of a crash of a passenger plane / All 143 people / Wednesday
4. Austrians / the 38 people / at ski area
5. the hijacker / released his remaining hostages and surrendered to police
6. Japanese / the nuclear reaction / has stopped
7. victims of a train accident / 189 / Thursday / 250
8. Russian and Norwegian divers / the sunken Russian nuclear submarine
9. 12 / heavy rains / homes and bridges / some road became rivers of flood waters.
10. deadly storm / Europe / transportation delays / airports to close / more than 115 people
11. Sunday’s earthquake / Turkey / more than 1,200 / 50 villages
12. fires / Sydney / under control / new flare-ups
Part II
A
A fire from an oil pipeline explosion
Thursday
More than 50 people dead
Near Lagos
A fuel-loading area / Nigeria’s
Stealing fuel from leaking pipes / vandal
1. NIGERIA – more than 50 people have died in a fire from an oil pipeline explosion near Lagos. The explosion and fire happened near a fuel-loading area owned by Nigeria’s National Petroleum Corporation. This is the latest in a series of pipeline fires in Nigeria this year. The fires have killed hundreds of people. The government says people who steal fuel from leaking pipes caused some of the fires. It also blames people who cause damage on purpose.
2. More than 50 people are dead in Nigeria after a leaking oil pipeline burst into flames outside the commercial capital Lagos. The blast and resulting fire Thursday ripped through an area near a fuel-loading depot owned by the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Witnesses report seeing burned bodies littering the charred grounds while many other victims are being treated for injuries sustained in the blaze. A spokesman for the petroleum company says the fire was caused by a vandal.
Ski resort wire aboard operator unhurt crew
B
1. a cable car accident at a ski resort in northern Italy
2. a. American military plane / cut the wires / low-level flight
b. 20
c. 60 kilometers away
d. started investigation / suspended low-level missions
An accident at a ski resort in northern Italy in which an American military plane cut the wires of a cable during a low-level training flight has killed 20 people. One car plunged about 100 meters into the snow, killing everyone aboard. An operator was rescued unhurt from a second car left dangling in the
air after the accident. The plane returned to its base 60 kilometers away, the crew unaware of the accident. Commanders of the base have since started an investigation and suspended all low-level missions in Italy until further notice.
Questions:
a. What is the cause of the disaster?
b. How many people have been killed?
c. How far away is the military base?
d. What have the commanders of the base done since the accident?
C
1. floods and landslide
Venezuela
Homes of 140,000 – 150,000 people destroyed
30,000 people killed
poor city planning
15 billion dollars
2. a. to give quick and generous aid to Venezuela
b. to build new housing for those homeless people
c. in stadiums, car parks, airports and military barracks
d. plain areas away from the coast
1. Venezuela --- tens of thousands of people affected by recent floods and landslides are preparing to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays in shelters. Officials estimate that the homes of as many as 140,000 people were destroyed. Venezuela officials say the floods and landslides may have caused the death of as many as 30,000 people. Experts say poor city planning was a major cause f the damage. Many houses were built on weak ground of on the side of mountains along the northern coast. The Venezuela Defense Minister says survivors need to cooperate with government efforts to move them away form the coastal area.
2. The United Nations has urged the international community to give quick and generous aid to Venezuela to help it recover from last week’s devastating floods and mudslides. A resolution passed in the general assembly said it was deeply concerned over the tremendous loss of life and severe destruction of the country. As many as 30,000 people are thought to
have been killed. Officials have estimated the relief and reconstruction efforts as costing some 15 billion dollar.
Officials here say that reconstruction efforts could take several years to complete. They say the priority is to build new housing for the 150,000 people who’ve been made homeless. These people are now sleeping in emergency shelters set up in stadium, car parks, airports and military barracks. President Hugo Chavez says that he is looking at several different places across the country in which to build new houses, all in plain areas away from the coast. Mr. Chavez says that the government will not rebuild houses in the parts of the northern coastal region destroyed by floods and landslides. Relief efforts are continuing in damaged coastal regions
Questions:
a. do?
What has the United Nations urged the international community to
b. According to Venezuela officials, what is the priority now?
c. Where are the emergency shelters set up?
d. built?
According to President Hugo Chavez, where will the new houses to
Part III
1. heavy rains / the spread of
2. people’s hopes of a good season
3. one of the best months
whole life / not a season like this / not rains like this
crops flooded / difficult / meet requirements / consumers / crops destroyed
struggling / not supply 100% / something
hello! For the last two weeks, we’ve reported how heavy rains have contributed to the spread of Rift Valley Fever in Kenya. This week, we hear how the continuing torrential storms in that region are washing away Kenya horticulture’s hopes a good season.
Sarah Rannoe is just back form Nairobi.
Now there’s never a good time for heavy rainfall such as this. But for the horticulture industry, Sarah, this must be a particularly bad time for heavy beating rain.
Well, January should be one of the best months for growers of fruit, vegetables and flowers in Kenya. Hot, dry, sunny days and peak production destined for consumers shivering in the European winter and longing for a taste African sunshine. But in Kenya, as elsewhere, the weather is not behaving as it should. Months of rain, often torrential, is washing away hopes of a good harvest. Flowers are reluctant to flower. And perhaps worst hit are growers of peas and French beans.
“In the whole of my life and I’m talking about somebody who is over 60 years old. I’ve not experienced a season like this. The whole of that period, I’ve not seen rains like this in January in Kenya.”
James Masengi, chairman of the Fresh Produce Exporters’ Association of Kenya, who speaks not only for his members but out of personal and bitter experience.
“Crops are flooded. We are finding it even difficult to meet the requirement of our consumers because crops have been destroyed.”
Are you going to be able to keep your business orders up to date? Are you going to complete your export orders?
Yes we are struggling very much to keep the export orders. In some places, we are not able to supply them 100 percent, but we are supplying something.
James Masengi.
B
Very little happiness disease pressure / slows down growth / production down 30%
Some / deficiency
If sunshine in the next month / catch up a lot
No / sales on contract price
Maize
Threat of disease
Pick & transport / nightmare / roads / impossible conditions
听力原文：
And for growers of roses, the flower associated with love and romance, there’s very little happiness in the air. Ian Maroe is managing director of CN Roses Limited, one of Kenya’s leading rose exporters.
“Cold, cloudy, wet weather increase disease pressure and slows down growth. So our production is probably down a six-month figure, is down 30%.”
Are you disappointing your customers?
“Some. We try to keep the more important ones contented, but some are definitely disappointed. Definitely. Yeah.”
Do you think you’ll be able to pick up over the course of the season?
“ The bad weather as such will continue for a depressingly long time according to the forecast. But if we get sunshine in the next month or so, we’ll be able to catch up quite a lot.”
Are you making up the short fall in production by an increase in price?
“Uh, no, because a lot of our sales are on the contract price.”
Ian Morae.
And I should add that even more of Kenya’s crops are in trouble. Maize has suffered badly. Coffee is under constant threat of disease. And although tea is growing well, getting it picked and transported is a nightmare on roads that become all but impossible in these conditions. But the greatest fear is that the rain could be followed by the opposite: drought.
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