《新视野英语教程(第三版)》教学资源book4Unit4-Section B.pptVIP

CONTENTS Introduction Questions and Answers 1. What the type of disaster in this passage? 2. How about the city after the disaster? 3. Why there was noone in the street at the midnight on Wednesday? 4. How did the author feel about the loss suffered by people after the earthquake? Intensive Reading On Wednesday morning, at a quarter past five, there was an earthquake. A minute later, fires broke out everywhere. There was no organization, no communication. This very modern city was all of a sudden in ruins, with the streets destroyed and forming great depressions in the earth, the telephone lines falling every way, and the water mains pouring out all over the place. The city seemed to have been wiped out by this random act of nature. Para. 2-3 By Wednesday afternoon, inside of twelve hours, half the city was gone. At that time, I watched from out on the bay. The water was dead calm－there was no wind at all. Yet, from every side, wind was pouring in upon the city. The hot air was rising, creating an enormous rush of violent wind. And the fires burned on and on.  As remarkable as it may seem, Wednesday night, as the whole city crashed and burned into ruin, there seemed to be a collective silence in the streets. There was no crowd of people, no great symphony of shouting and yelling, and no disorder. I spent Wednesday night in the path of the advancing fires, and in all those terrible hours, I saw not one woman who wept, not one man who was excited, not one person who was bothered in the least. Para. 4-5 At nine oclock Wednesday evening, I walked down through the heart of the city. I walked through miles and miles of magnificent buildings and towering skyscrapers. Here, there was no fire－all was in perfect order. The police were there to investigate the scene. Every building had its watchman at the door. And yet, it was going to go－all of it. There was no water, only the dense heat from the fire sweeping down upon it all.