Unit 4 Natural disasters第 6 课时 巩固与提升一、完形填空
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We cannot stop earthquakes, but we can do things to make sure they do not destroy the whole cities
First, it is not a 1 idea to build houses along the lines where 2 of the earth’s plates join together
Second, if you think there 3 be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rock, not on 4
Third, you must make the houses as 5 as possible
Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6
Scientists are 7 that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco
They call it“The big one”
But people today are still building more 8
The population in and around San Francisco now is ten times more than 9 was in 1906.This means that 10 there is another eart