Made of canruohanxing 灿若寒星制作乐吾实验学校八年级英语期末复习——8A Unit 8 Important phrases and sentences:1. disaster n. 灾难;不幸,祸患natural disasters 自然灾害2. mop vt. 用拖把擦干净(mopped mopping )up adv 完全地mop up / eat up /clean up /use up mop up 拖干,把 ......拖干(mop it /them up)eg. Hobo wants Eddie to mop up all the water. 3. earthquake n. 地震an earthquake in the earthquake eg. There was an earthquake in Sichuan in 2008. 4. 1)thousands of 成千上万的/hundreds of 成百上千的/ millions of 成百万的+名词复数eg. Thousands of people lost their lives in the earthquake.There are thousands of people on the road. 2)数词 +hundred/thousand/million+ 名词复数 There are three thousand students in our school. 5. accident n. 事故,意外的事eg. There was a car accident yesterday.昨天有一场交通事故。A car accident killed three men three days ago. Three men lost their lives in the car accident three days ago. 在三天前的一场交通事故中三人丧生。6. coach n. 长途汽车 (coaches) get on/off the coach It took us three hours to go to Nanjing by coach. . 7. crash vi. & vt. 猛撞;碰撞crash into 猛撞,碰撞eg. A car crashed into a tree last night. 昨天晚上一辆车猛撞到一棵树上。8.flood n 洪水a terrible flood 一场可怕的洪水9.wash away 冲走wash away the village 冲走这个村庄wash them away eg. A terrible flood washed away his house. 10. village n 村庄,乡村( villager 村民)in the village 在村子里a small village 一个小村子11 thunder n 雷声,雷lightning n 闪电thunder and lightning 电闪雷鸣The lightning started a big fire in the classroom building. 12.storm n 风暴 , 暴风雨There was a heavy storm with thunder and lightning last week. 13. catch fire 着火(强调动作)be on fire 着火 , 失火(强调状态)eg. Look !The house is on fire. The house c...