高中英语人教版高二下10

[12:03.12]Work book Unit 10   Talking
[12:09.00]1  X:Are you looking forward to your holiday in Beihai this summer?
[12:15.45]D:Yes and no.I think it will be great to spend three months in the south.
[12:23.21]but the fact that South China is often hit by typhoons worries me.
[12:29.58]X:Are you serious?
[12:32.82]D:Yes.I even thought of cancelling my trip when I heard about it.
[12:39.07]X:Oh.You don't need to worry about that.
[12:43.14]Most typhoons aren't much stronger than a storm,
[12:48.18]just like we sometimes have here.
[12:52.15]And in case of stronger typhoons,you can be prepared for them.
[12:58.32]D:You don't know what you are talking about
[13:02.39]Typhoons can destroy houses and carry cars or even people over miles before they are dropped to the ground.
[13:10.94]X:True,but you should not make yourself afraid by thinking about the worst.
[13:17.78]When you know a typhoon is going to hit,
[13:21.85]all it takes is a few simple safety measures and some common sense.
[13:28.10]You will be fine.Don't worry.
[13:32.36]D:Well,thanks.I feel a bit better now.
[13:37.71]Integrating skills    Reading
[13:42.28]Using the key words natural disaster,volcano and hurricane on the computer,
[13:50.22]you have found the following book descriptions for an essay
[13:55.47]that your teacher wants you to write.
[13:59.42]1.Here is an exciting guide to the eruptions and quakes that shape our planet.
[14:06.97]Look at the beautiful colour photographs of volcanoes.
[14:12.01]Learn about the earliest instruments to study earthquakes,
[14:17.57]rocks that float in water,and the great eruption of Vesuvius.
[14:24.34]Find out how animals can sense earthquakes before people,
[14:29.80]where to hide during an earthquake,and much, much more!
[14:35.68]2.It is an amazing novel and some of the best writing I have ever read.
[14:43.43]The novel is about a single day in the life of a British official who drinks too much.
[14:51.09]The whole book is set in 1938,in a town at the foot of two volcanoes.
[14:59.74]I am amazed by the beautiful writing.
[15:04.59]Stay with this book..,it will stay with you.
[15:09.56]3.Hawaii remains as popular as ever,
[15:15.30]and this guide shows how to discover its least crowded island.
[15:21.23]The book invites readers to experience popular attractions
[15:27.11]such as diving coral reefs and climbing active volcanoes
[15:33.17]but also to go further by exploring hidden spots other guides do not mention.
[15:41.03]Each title in the Hidden series
[15:45.61]offers readers the comfort of detailed maps for hiking and diving tours.
[15:52.06]4.On the morning of April 18,1906,a terrible earthquake hit San Francisco,
[16:03.53]destroying almost the whole city and causing a fire that lasted for three days.
[16:11.89]The author writes about the human drama.
[16:16.74]Following more than 100 different characters over several days,
[16:23.22]he shows some of the extreme courage in those days,
[16:28.26]such as the tired firefighters who fought the fires.
[16:34.51]This new book,appearing exactly 95 years after the disaster,
[16:41.74]should be very popular with people who like reading about disasters,
[16:47.67]particularly those who enjoy the thrill of reading about danger
[16:54.23]from the safety of their favourite reading chair.
[16:59.69]5.Big hurricanes are not often seen in the north of the USA,
[17:06.66]but on September 21,1938 just as many summer tourists were on the beach,
[17:15.02]closing up their seaside cottages,a disaster hit.
[17:20.48]Walls of water, 50 feet high, swept homes and whole families out to sea.
[17:27.54]According to the author, no one could have been prepared for the 1938 storm.
[17:34.41]Only the captain of a ship 150 miles north of Florida might have given warning.
[17:42.06]He did use his radio to tell the coast guard
[17:46.63]that his barometer showed one of the lowest readings ever in the North Atlantic.
[17:52.88]Although other books have been written about this terrible disaster
[17:58.75]and the destruction it caused,