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1、学 海 无 涯话题语言应用-地震编稿：陈玉莲 审稿： 语言积累本单元交际用语总结谈论过去经历（Talking about past experience） 1. It was terrible when . 当时候，情况真是糟糕。2. It seemed as if. （那时）看起来似乎3. I remember. 我还记得4. I felt. 我当时感觉 5. No longer after that. 在那之后不久6. Luckily . 幸运的是表达感谢（Express thanks）1. I would like to express my thanks to. 我想表达对的感谢。2.
2、 I wish to express my thanks for the great efforts. 我希望对付出的巨大努力表示感谢。3. Id also like to thank. 我还想感谢4. No words are strong enough to express my thanks to. 对的感谢我无以言表。【高清课堂：unit4语言应用】，话题词句 How much do you know about our earth? 1. The earth is 4.6 billion years old. 地球存在四十六亿年了。 2. The earth is the fourt
3、h largest planet. 地球是第四大行星。 3. Two thirds of the Earths surface is covered by the sea. 地球表面的三分之二被水覆盖。 4. 6% of the water on the Earth is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps(极地冰冠). 地球上6%的水是淡水，其中稍微多于三分之二的淡水以冰川或极地冰冠的形式存在。 5. Half of the land on the Ear
4、ths surface is covered by forest. 地球表面的一半陆地被森林覆盖。 6. Indonesian tsunami triggered by the earthquake happened in 2005. 地震引发的印尼海啸发生在2005年。 7. In March 2011, Japan experienced the toughest and most difficult crisis since the end of World War II because of the occurrence of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake,
5、 30-foot tsunami and the resulted nuclear accidents. 在2011年3月，日本经历了二战以来最最严重最艰难的危机，因为发生了8.9级地震，引发了30英尺高的海啸以及由此产生的核泄漏事故。 有关自然灾害方面的词汇（Natural disasters ）：earthquake，drought（干旱）, flood, forest fire, hurricane（飓风）, landslide（山崩）, tsunami, typhoon（台风）, volcanic eruption（火山爆发）, tornado（龙卷风）, blizzard（暴风雪）,
6、 avalanche vlnt（雪崩）, thunderstorm（雷暴）, wildfire（野火）, hailstorm（雹暴）拓展阅读Major Earthquakes in the Last 100 YearsLets have a look at 5 of the major earthquakes in the last 100 years in terms of（就而言） destruction and loss of human life.The Great Tangshan EarthquakeThis earthquake occurred in Tangshan, Chi
7、na, in 1976, and had a magnitude(震级) of 8. It lasted for around 25 seconds, but 3 reasons contributed to（导致） the huge loss of human life. One, obviously the magnitude was very high. Second, this was not an earthquake-prone(抗震) area, as a result of which, buildings and houses were not built according
8、ly. And lastly, this disaster struck at around 4 in the morning, when everyone was asleep inside their homes. Around 275,000 perished (丧生)in this disaster, and another 150,000 were injured.The Indian Ocean EarthquakeThis 2004 earthquake was an undersea quake, with the epicenter（震中） off the west coas
9、t of Sumatra, Indonesia. It had a magnitude of 9.2, the second largest ever recorded. It also was the longest earthquake ever recorded, with a duration（持续） of nearly 10 minutes. It set off the worst tsunami ever known to man, striking with waves up to 30 meters in numerous Asian countries like Thail
10、and, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka, to name a few(举几个来说). Indonesia was the worst affected. This earthquake was so powerful, that it cased the whole Earth to vibrate(振动) by 1 cm, and it triggered (引发) earthquakes even as far off as Alaska. The result of this devastating earthquake and
11、tsunami was a loss of nearly 270,000 lives.The Haiti EarthquakeThe images of destruction that this earthquake caused will still be fresh in our minds. This natural calamity（灾祸）, with a magnitude of around 7, struck the Caribbean country of Haiti in January 2010. Its location and the fact that constr
12、ucted structures were of very poor quality, led to the huge loss of life. There were like 50 aftershocks（余震） in the month of January itself, after the actual earthquake. It is believed that at least 250,000 people died in this natural disaster, 300,000 were injured, and around a million people becam
13、e homeless. International aid still pours into Haiti, and reconstruction work is still ongoing here, as we speak. The Habitual EarthquakeThis was a massive of just under 8, that struck in December 1920 in the Habitual County of China. It is also known as the Gansu Earthquake, because in 1920, Ningxi
14、a, where it actually occurred, was a part of the Gansu Province. The earthquake affected around 150 miles of area, and there were a large number of ground openings and landslides, which further affected the injury and death toll. Around 240,000 people lost their lives, while thousands of others were
15、 injured or missing.The Great Kanto EarthquakeIn 1923, the island of Honshu in Japan was struck by an earthquake that was of a magnitude of 8.3, and it lasted for more than 5 minutes. The earthquake was so powerful that it managed to destroy parts of Tokyo, Yokohama（横滨）, Chiba（千叶）, Kanagawa（神奈川）, and Shizuoka（静冈）. Though it is not the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan, but in terms of damage and loss of life, it is considered the biggest ever to strike Japan. Large areas were simply buried underground, major fires broke out, and there were numerous lan
