Unit 9 PartI A
1.60,000/8.75 2.452/8.3 3.100,000/8.6 4.8.9/2,990 5.1,530
6.12,000/5.8 7.7.1/12,230 8.7.5/22,778 9.6.8/25,000 10.6.7/50,000 11.9.0/300,000 12.69,197/18,341 B
1.Ice,snow,earth,rock/the side of a mountain 2.a slow-moving mudflow
3.the sudden release/waves of shaking
4.system of winds/about 30 to 50 kilometers an hour
5.64 knows or 74 miles per hour/in the western Atlantic Ocean 6.A violent destructive whirling wind/of short duration 7.74 mph/in the Pacific Ocean
8.A period of dryness/prevents their successful growth 9.A body of water/normally dry land 10.a wildfire or an uncontrolled fire Suicide bomber C
1.a bomb explosion in Algiers/in a market area 2.ocean storm/the Pacific coast of Mexico
3.the cause of a crash of a passenger plane/ALL 143 people/Wednesday 4.Austrians/the 38 people/at ski area
5.the hijacker/released his remaining hostages and surrendered to police 6.Japanese/the nuclear reaction/has stopped 7.victims of a train accident/189/Thursday/250
8.Russian and Norwegian divers/the sunken Russian nuclear submarine
9.12/heavy rains/homes and bridges/some road became rivers of flood waters
10.deadly storm/Europe/transportation delays/airports to close/more than 115 people 11.Sunday's earthquake/Turkey/more than 1,200/50 villages 12.fires/Sydney/under control/new flare-ups
PartII
A
A fire from an oil pipeline explosion Thursday
More than 50 people dead Near Lagos
A fuel-loading area/Nigeria's
Stealing fule from leaking pipes/vandal B
1.a cable car accident at a ski resort in northern Italy
2.a. American military plane/cut the wires/low-level flight b. 20
c. 60 kilometers away
d. started investigation/suspended low-level missions C
1. floods and landslide Venezuela
Homes of 140,000-150,000 people destroyed 30,000 people killed poor city planning 15 billion dollars
2. a. to give quick and generous aid to Venezuela
b. to build new housing for those homeless people c. in stadiums,car parks,airports and military barracks d. plain areas away from the coast
Part III
1. heavy rains/the spread of
2. people's hopes of a good season 3. one of the best months
whole life/not a season like this/not rains like this
crops flooded /difficult/meet requirements/consumers/crops destroyed struggling/not supply 100%/something B
Very little happiness disease pressure/slows down growth/production 30%
some/deficiency
If sunshine in the next month/catch up a lot No/sales on contract price
Maize
Threat of disease
Pick & transport/nightmare/roads/impossible conditions
