2012 is coming soon! Natural disasters are happening with increasing
frequency.
['nætʃərəl] [dɪ'zæstɚs ]
sandstorm ['sæ nd,stɔrm] 沙尘暴
volcano[vɑl'keno] 火山
smoke
Cause of the fire!
Some words about another fire
[hɑt] ['faɪrmən] [kɔz] [ɪg'zæmɪn] [,æksə'dɛntlɪ] [rɪ'menz] [sɑlv]
hot fire/man cause
adj. 带电的, 充电的 n .火花 n .谜 adv. 意外地, 偶然地 n. 尸体, 残骸
1. Yesterday the fire-men examined the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. 2. which people carelessly throw away. This morning,they were also quite sure that a cigaretteed did not start the fire. 3.
WHY?
A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires.
Hot snake
At last firemen have put out a big forestfire in California.Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fire are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the fire-men examined the ground carefully, butwere not able to find any broken glass.They were also quite sure that a cigaretteend did not start the fire. This morning,however, a fireman accidentally dis-covered the cause. He noticed the remainsof a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line.In this way, he was able to solve themystery. The explanation was simple butvery unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and thendropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires.Whenit did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.