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paration and good disaster management are the best ways to deal with them. to the passage,both humankind and nature . be managed orderly threaten human beings hard to control a large family 答案 :B 解析 :細節(jié)理解題。 reason why natural disasters cause so much damage is that . is very difficult to predict when exactly they will happen forecasting equipment is too old for many natural disasters don’ t do enough preparation before natural disasters strike don’ t have the necessary public services to use after natural disasters strike 答案 :A 解析 :由第二段第一句可知 ,自然災(zāi)難之所以給人類造成巨大損失 ,是因為人類難以預(yù)測出災(zāi)難發(fā)生的準確時間。由第三段內(nèi)容可知 ,人類可以在自然災(zāi)難來臨之前做好準備。 B It was 3:12 am when nineyearold Glenn Kreamer woke up to the smell of for the cracking of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the twostory house at Baldwin,Long his father away on night duty at a local factory,Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother,his sister Karen,14 and his 12yearold brother ran downstairs(到樓下 ) through the smokefilled house to push and pull Karen and Todd until they sat he helped each one through the house to the safety of the ,his sister and brother,taking short and quick breaths and coughing(咳嗽 ),sat on the ground. The nineyearold boy ran back into the house and upstairs to his mother’ s found it impossible to wake her Kreamer,because of the smoke,was unconscious(無意識的 ),and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the the boy remained calm and,as a fireman said later,“acted with all the self control of a trained(訓練 ) grownup”. On the bedroom telephone,luckily still working,Glenn called his father and,leaving Mr Kreamer to telephone the firemen and ambulance service,got on with the task of saving his mother. First he filled a bucket(水桶 ) with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her ,with a w