【正文】
Glancing through his surroundings, he found no guarantee of his safety. Sweat of anxiety began to drop. 7) 但是,他 努力 不要 驚慌 和 顫抖 ,終于成功地逃離了。 Once, the unique volcano near the Lake of Heaven erupted. Fountains of ash and lava varied from 50 to 100 metres in height. 3) 這一 絕對奇異 、給人 留下深刻印象的 景象 使 在湖里 游泳 的一位 小說家激動 不已。他真是 勇氣 可嘉?。? 2. Checkup 1) 與 火山 、 颶風 或 臺風 相 比較 ,人類非常弱小。盡管 估計 到了 潛在的 危險,他依然立刻 前往 火山,只為更近距離地觀看這一 珍貴的 景象。但是有的人卻對 各種各樣的 冒險從不 感到厭煩 。 ) Fill the blanks and guess the meanings of the underlined words. Natural disasters e in many shapes and sizes. In order to be (1)__________( prepare) you have to know about different types of disasters. Most are related to the weather but some are (a) geological, which means “ greatly related to the geography” .Recently I saw a lot of terrible statistics about natural disasters. Over the past years I was ( 2) _________ (impress) by two natural disasters one was the (b) disastrous Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2021 and the other was the recent Hurricane Katrina