新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit06-a

[-1:10.00]One alternative is a portable camp stove with small cans of gas.
[-1:11.00]Keep a pair of heavy,
[-1:12.00]comfortable shoes or boots in your home,
[-1:13.00]at work, and in your vehicle. If there is an earthquake,
[-1:14.00]there will be lots of fragments of broken glass.
[-1:15.00]Light shoes will not protect your feet as well as heavy shoes will.
[-1:16.00]6  Every family needs to have earthquake emergency plans.
[-1:17.00]How will family members leave the area during
[-1:18.00]the chaos following an earthquake?
[-1:19.00]Everyone should agree on a meeting point outside of the area
[-1:20.00] — perhaps in a town several miles away.
[-1:21.00]Also important is an arrangement for family members to communicate
[-1:22.00]if there is an earthquake.
[-1:23.00]If an earthquake happens in a large city,
[-1:24.00]many of the telephone lines within the city are likely to be down.
[-1:25.00]The few remaining working lines will be busy with the calls
[-1:26.00]that naturally occur after a disaster
[-1:27.00]and it will be difficult to call from one part of the city to another.
[-1:28.00]It might, however, be possible to call outside the city.
[-1:29.00]A sensible arrangement is to have all of the members of the family
[-1:30.00]call to check in with a friend or relative
[-1:31.00]who lives more than a hundred miles away.
[-1:32.00]7  Although scientists still cannot predict earthquakes,
[-1:33.00]they are learning a great deal about
[-1:34.00]how the large plates in the earth's crust move,
[-1:35.00]the stresses between plates, how earthquakes work,
[-1:36.00]and the general probability that a given place will have an earthquake.
[-1:37.00]Someday soon it may actually
[-1:38.00]become possible to predict earthquakes with accuracy.
[-1:39.00]However, even if prediction becomes possible,
[-1:40.00]people who live in areas where earthquakes are a common occurrence
[-1:41.00]will still have to do their best to prevent disasters
[-1:42.00]by building structures that are resistant to ground movement
[-1:43.00]and by being personally prepared.
[-1:44.00]These precautions can make a great difference in saving lives
[-1:45.00]and preventing the loss of homes.
[-1:46.00]Education concerning
[-1:47.00]how to survive an earthquake should be a major emphasis for all government
[-1:48.00]programs and earthquake-related research projects.