Unit 4 EarthquakesPeriod One Warming Up & Reading (Ⅰ)基础落实Ⅰ.课文理解1．How long did the earthquake last?A．15 minutes. B．42 minutes.C．15 seconds. D．42 seconds.2．Which is NOT true according to the text?A．People in Beijing felt the earthquake.B ． People of Tangshan cared much about the strange events before the earthquake.C ． If the earthquake had happened during the daytime ， it wouldn’t have caused so many deaths.D ． Many soldiers helped to rescue the people who were trapped under the ruins.3．Which of the following can also be used as a title of the text?A．Tangshan earthquakeB．The world at an endC．How to prevent an earthquakeD．New Tangshan4．What does the last sentence “Slowly ，the city began to breathe again.” mean?A．People who were trapped came to life.B．The trees turned green.C．The animals began to breathe.D．The city returned to normal gradually.5．Many strange things happened in the countryside EXCEPT that________.A．the well walls had deep cracks in themB．some animals were too nervous to eatC．fish jumped out of bowls and pondsD．birds flew higher than usual6．Why didn’t people lose hope after the earthquake?A．Because the army came to help them.1B．Because they could help themselves.C．Because most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the local mines.D ． Because shelters were built for the survivors whose homes had been destroyed.Ⅱ.课文缩写Several days before July 28,1976 ， many 1.________ things happened in Tangshan.They were signs for an 2.________.But people 3.________ lived there didn’t think much of that.At 3∶42 am that day，the earth began to shake，which 4.________ almost all the city in fifteen terrible seconds.Many people ， including workers and doctors ， came to ...
