Unit 4 Natural disasters 知识点题库

We have missed the last bus. It seems  (好像) we shall have no choice but to walk home.

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    China and India are leaders in improving global (全球的) tree cover, a new study based on NASA research showed.

    They took a 31.8 percent part together of the total global new leaf area between 2000 and 2017. China played a major role, adding 25 percent to this increase, and India added 6.8 percent, followed by Canada and Russia.

    The study in the Nature Sustainability journal shows that more than 5.5 million square km of green leaf area was added globally. Since 2000, there has been a five-percent increase in global green cover, it said.

    "The greening over the last twenty years shows an increase in leaf area on plants and trees which is as large as the area of the entire Amazon rainforest," Chi Chen, a Boston University researcher and lead of the study told Nature Sustainability. Large plantation activities to protect forests in China contributed nearly 42 percent to the country's green cover, and agriculture (农业) added another 32 percent. In India, 82 percent of the increase in leaf area was because of agriculture.

    "China and India take up one-third of the greening, but hold only nine percent of the planet's land area covered in green plants," Chi Chen told NASA Earth Observatory. "That is a surprising finding, considering the land degradation (退化) in countries with large populations."

    Boston University's research team first detected an increase in global green cover in the 1990s but were unsure about what contributed to the increase. Finally, with the help of NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites research, they managed to find out the increase in leaf cover from different areas and places.

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

    The hobby is a good thing a person gets from childhood. It can be developed at any age; however, it's best to get it from childhood. We all do some kind of work according to our interest which can give us happiness and joy and that is called hobbies. Some people get different hobbies according to their interest, likes and dislikes.

    There are many types of hobbies we can develop such as dancing, singing, drawing, playing indoor or outdoor games, birdwatching, writing, eating, reading, sports, gardening, music, watching TV, cooking, talking. Our hobbies help us in earning a livelihood (生计) and making a successful career. The hobby is something we can fully enjoy in our free time.

    My hobbies are cooking, listening to music and gardening; however, I always prefer gardening. Gardening makes me relaxed and gives me more happiness. Every early morning I enjoy my blooming garden, growing plants slowly on a daily basis. I also enjoy sunrise and sunset in my garden. I generally like to do my schoolwork in my evergreen garden. I play badminton with my father in the evening and enjoy the evening walk with my mom. Every day I watch new plants develop and water the plants. I also try planting new and decorative plants in my garden in order to make it more beautiful.

    My parents always encourage me to continue all my hobbies. They become so happy when I take my problems in an easy way and try to solve them without getting angry and anxious. My mom says that gardening is a good hobby. From my childhood I work daily in my garden for one hour to keep it well maintained.

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A terrible storm destroyed fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to the hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.

A farmer, Mr Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.

“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him safe but very frightened.”

Mrs Woo said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

“There was no time to take anything，” she said. “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”

Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department brought them food, clothes and shelters.

—Have you found the information about famous scientists________ you can use for the report?

—Not yet. I'll search some on the Internet.

I believe in him. He is the only person________can help me out of trouble.

The car window got broken in the accident belongs to Mr. Brown.

This is the very book .

这正是我要找的那本书。

His bad habits of playing video games (毁灭) his chance of having a bright future.

He when I came in.

我进来的时候他正在专心致志地学习。

We sat in the shade, the sun.

我们坐在背阴处，避免被晒到。

An old man the lift.

一位老人被困在电梯里了。

The professor will (发表) a speech on environment protection.

And we should give (援助) to strangers when they need help.

Death finally brought an end to her suffer).

在这次事故中只有两个人幸存了下来。（survive）

根据校规，老师们应该每天对他们的教学做总结。（make a summary）

Ancient w has stood the test of time.

We moved into a cabin with e but no running water.

The volcano could e at any time.