外研book3 Module 3重点句型

Module The Violence of Nature1.Have you experienced a tornado?2.Have you ever read a news story about one ofthe events?3.The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean currentwhich starts in the Gulf of Mexico and flows northeast across the Atlantic.4.Because of the Gulf Stream, the UnitedKingdom and other places in Europe are much warmer than parts of Canada on the same latitude.5.What can happen to furniture when a houseis destroyed by a tornado?Reading1. A tornado is a rotating column of air from athunderstorm to the ground.2.The most violent have winds of more than400 kilometers per hour.3.Almost all of them occur in the US, in thearea from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.4.Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and evenhouses and put them down in the next street 5.They can take the fur off the back of a catand the feathers off a chicken.6.They can destroy houses, leaving thefurniture inside exactly where it was.7.On average, there are 800 tornadoes in theUS each year, and cause about 80 deaths and 1500 injuries.8.The worst tornado of all time occurred in1925, affecting three US states9.By the time it ended, more than 700 peoplehad been killed and 2700 had been injured. 10.Hurricanes are strong tropical storms, andthey usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.11.There are violent winds of 120 kilometres perhour or more, which cause huge waves, heavy rain and floods.12.There are on average six Atlantic hurricaneseach year and they usually affect the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.13.The worst hurricane disaster of all timeoccurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas.14.Winds of 200 kilometers per hour andfive-meter high waves hit the city.15.The disaster killed 6000 people in apopulation of 37000 and destroyed 3600 buildings16.Charles was a nineteenth- century Irish actorwho went to live in Canada.17.He then moved to New York, where hebecame famous.18.By the late 1890s, he had moved to Galveston,where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane struck.19.The cemetery where Coghlan was buried wasdestroyed by the hurricane and Coghlan’s coffin ended up in the sea.20.Eight years later, the coffin was found byfishermen in the sea near his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada.21.The Gulf Stream had carried it3000kilometres up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.22.Coghlan travelled back to Canada--- after hehad been buried in Texas.Cultural Cornerbook 3\22 SBM03-05.mp31.Is it possible that there could be anotherearthquake there?2.About 400 earthquakes occur worldwideevery day, more than a hundred thousand ina year.3.China is situated in one of the most activeearthquake regions in the world and there have been many terrible earthquakes.4.The earthquake affected eight provinces inCentral China. It covered an area of 800 square kilometers.5.In some communities, 60 percent of thepopulation were killed. In all, 830,000 people lost their lives.6.The California Earthquake of the 18th ofApril 1906 is the worst earthquake that has ever happened in the United States.7.It took place at 5:15 a.m., and lasted for onlya minute. However, it caused the worstnatural disaster in the nation’s history.8.Fires caused by the California Earthquake didthe most damage.9.The fires burned for three days, destroying atotal of 25,000 buildings.10.About 500 people were killed in the city ofSan Francisco and 250,000 were madehomeless. In the whole of California, the earthquake and fires caused about 3,000 deaths.1.Montserrat is a beautiful small island in theCaribbean, only 16 km long and 10 km wide.This tiny island has three volcanoes.2.There had been several problems with thevolcano over the previous hundred years, but this was the first dangerous eruption3.People were told to leave the island as ashand steam began to come out of the volcano, and were warned that the lava from the volcano could bury several villages.4.When the lava reached the sea, there was thepossibility of a huge tidal wave which could flood half the island.5.Ash and lava poured down the mountain,setting fire to hundreds of houses.6.Hundreds of houses caught fire when thelava reached them.7.We managed to get half the population toanother island.8.We put all the fires out.9.And now, more information about thevolcanic eruption on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean Sea which took place at 3a.m. on December 26th, one week ago.10.We spoke to a local journalist and he told usthat no one had been killed in the incident.According to the journalist, more than half the island’s 11,000 residents had left the island four months earlier.11.Make sure you stress the key words.12.Luckily/ Fortunately/ Thankfully, we hadplenty of warning.13.Unfortunately /Sadly, there were severalvillages in its path.。