Disaster灾难性事件是指战争、火灾、水灾、旱灾、地震、意外事故（如交通事故、空难）等有关词句如下：1. 事件名称air crash（空难）, snow storm; flood, drought, earthquake, an active volcano, a big fire, tsunami, storm, typhone, hurricane, sandstorm, financial crisis, 2. 表示发生hit/ strike(struck)袭击Sth. hit/strike someplace happen / break out 发生Sth. happen / break out in someplace (1) a big fire / a war/ an earthquake broke out…一场大火发生……(2) the earthquake/ accident happened / occurred地震事故发生于(3) An earthquake hit/ struck/ shocked the district. 这地区受到地震的袭击。
3. 表示起因(1) The traffic accident was caused by/ was due to careless driving. 这次车祸起因于驾驶疏忽2) The cause of the fire was carelessness. (3) The fire was due to the fact that someone dropped a lighted cigarette. 这火灾是由于有人丢落燃着的香烟而引起的4. 表示生命、财产损失伤亡的表达：be killed / be injured / be dead / lose one’s life/ leave sb.missing /with+n.+adj.损失的表达：cause/ suffer great losses; cost sb. sth; destroy; damage; ruin; missing; steal sth. from sb.; rob sb. of sth.; break into; sink; erupt; blow up; burn down; collapse; fall off; fall down; knock into/ down; wash away; blow away; cut off 句式：（1）…caused great damage to………… （2）Hundreds of houses were damaged by the storm. 暴风雨毁坏了数百家房屋。
3）A number of houses were burnt down in the fire. 好些房子在火灾中都烧毁了4）Many houses were washed away by the flood. 许多房子被洪水冲走了5）After the earthquake, water, gas and electricity were all cut off. （6）We don’t know how many towns were destroyed, but we know many people lost their homes. （7）The big floods, which occurred in 1998, caused great losses. （8）The accident delayed all the traffic for an hour and caused the damage of $80,000. 这次事故阻碍/延误交通达一个小时，造成8万美元的经济损失 （9）It is estimated that the typhoon has caused an economic loss of more than 3 million yuan. 5. 表示人员伤亡词汇：get killed; injure; lose one’s life 句式：(1) Many people were injured/ killed in the fire/ accident/ war/ air crash. 许多人死于这场火灾、事故、空难。
2) Tens of thousands of people lost their precious life owing to the strong earthquake in Sichuan province. 因为四川的这场大地震，几万人失去了宝贵的生命 (3) As a result, the three-storied building was destroyed. 50 people were killed, and more than 200 were injured. 6. 表示救援词汇：send sb. to hospital; call in the police; call for a doctor; call an ambulance （1）受灾地区the stricken area/district（2）救灾工作rescue work（3）地震灾民victims of the earthquake（4）被困人员the trapped（5）拯救rescue/save…from（6）呼吁人们捐赠call on people to donate…to…句式： （1）Thousands of soldiers are sparing no efforts in the rescue work. 数千名战士正全力投入援救工作中。
2）People all over the country have raised 1 billion yuan to help those in the disaster-hit area. 全国共筹款10 亿元帮助灾区人民3）Fortunately, international societies offered their helping hands shortly after the earthquake --- donating clothes, food and medicine. 地震后，国际社会纷纷伸出援助之手---包括捐衣服，食品和药物4）The rescue work is going on while people are actively donating money to the disaster areas/ stricken areas. 救援工作正在进行，与此同时，大家正在积极为灾区捐钱5）Fortunately, the injured people were sent to hospital without delay.课文经典句子1. Have you ever considered how weak humans are compared with a volcano, hurricane or earthquake? However weak we are, we are not completely powerless.2. People think little of these events.3. It seems as if the world was at an end.4. The number of people who were killed or serious injured reached/ added up to…5. Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.6. All hopes was not lost.7. Worker build shelter for the survivors8. The city began to breathe again 9. Everything goes back to normal.谚语：1.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不经灾难不知福。
)2.Better late than never.(迟做总比不做好；晚来总比不来好)3.It's never too late to mend.(过而能改，善莫大焉；亡羊补牢，犹未晚也)[写作内容] 2008年1月，一场50年以来最严重的、持续了近20天的冰雪灾害袭击了中国南方地区请用英语给你们学校的广播站写一份英语稿件，报道这件事，主要包括以下内容： 灾害损失情况： 1．大约4.37亿亩的森林和农田受损； 2．暴风雪造成交通中断，大量旅客滞留； 3．造成100多人死亡，成千上万的人无家可归 重建工作； 1．大型的清理和重建工作已经在南方灾区启动； 2. 如果愿意伸出援助之手，请拨扛021—44856739 参考词汇；滞留detain [写作要求]1． 只能用五个句子表达全部内容；… [评分标准]·…2． In January 2008, a heavy snow hit the southern parts of China, which lasted for nearly 20 days. As the most serious snow for the past 50 years in China, it destroyed about 437 million mu of forest and farmland, causing more than 100 deaths and leaving thousands of people homeless. What's worse, the traffic was held up by the snow- storm and a large number of passengers were detained. A massive cleanup and reconstruction work is being launched for the snow-stricken parts of China. If you are willing to help, please call 021-44856739.。