A fierce earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, causing a crowded hospital to fall down and countless houses and buildings were destroyed.
The earthquake, the worst in the region in more than 200 years, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, struck just before 5 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, leaving the region nearly in ruins. As night fell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, fires burned near the shoreline downtown, but otherwise the city fell into darkness. The electricity was out, telephones were not working and relief workers struggled to make their way through blocked streets.
In this earthquake, it was not possible for officials to determine how many people had been killed and injured. It was reported that the headquarters of the United Nations mission was seriously damaged and many employees were missing. Part of the national palace had fallen to the ground. A hospital was totally ruined in Pétionville, which is home to many diplomats（外交官） and wealthy Haitians. A New York reporter said that a wall at the front of the Hotel Oloffson had fallen, killing a passer-by. A number of nearby buildings was badly damaged, trapping people. People were screaming, calling for help from every corner.
Haiti sits on a large fault between the much larger North American plate to the north and the Caribbean plate to the south. The earthquake on Tuesday happened when what appears to be part of the southern fault zone broke. With many poor people living in tin-roof shacks(窝棚) and with many of the buildings in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in the country of questionable quality, it was expected that the quake caused major damage to buildings and great loss of life.
1.What was the damage of the earthquake?
A. The headquarters of the UN mission was totally destroyed.
B. Some of the national palace had fallen to the ground.
C. A hospital was partly ruined in Pétionville.
D. All the walls of the Hotel Oloffson had fallen.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A. All the hospitals in Haiti were destroyed in the earthquake.
B. The earthquake was the worst in Haiti in less than two centuries.
C. After dark the city fell into darkness because of the earthquake.
D. Communication, electricity and transportation were all affected.
3.It can be learned from the text that ________.
A. fires broke out in the capital city due to the earthquake
B. Haiti covers the entire geographic plates of the earth
C. the earthquake caused the southern fault zone to break
D. a grand hotel was completely ruined in Pétionville
4.In Haiti, one way to reduce losses in earthquakes is probably to ________.
A. repair the Southern fault zone
B. move to the seaside
C. improve the quality of the buildings
D. live in tin-roof buildings
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A fierce earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, causing a crowded hospital to fall down and countless houses and buildings were destroyed.
The earthquake, the worst in the region in more than 200 years, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, struck just before 5 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, leaving the region nearly in ruins. As night fell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, fires burned near the shoreline downtown, but otherwise the city fell into darkness. The electricity was out, telephones were not working and relief workers struggled to make their way through blocked streets.
In this earthquake, it was not possible for officials to determine how many people had been killed and injured. It was reported that the headquarters of the United Nations mission was seriously damaged and many employees were missing. Part of the national palace had fallen to the ground. A hospital was totally ruined in Pétionville, which is home to many diplomats（外交官） and wealthy Haitians. A New York reporter said that a wall at the front of the Hotel Oloffson had fallen, killing a passer-by. A number of nearby buildings was badly damaged, trapping people. People were screaming, calling for help from every corner.
Haiti sits on a large fault between the much larger North American plate to the north and the Caribbean plate to the south. The earthquake on Tuesday happened when what appears to be part of the southern fault zone broke. With many poor people living in tin-roof shacks(窝棚) and with many of the buildings in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in the country of questionable quality, it was expected that the quake caused major damage to buildings and great loss of life.
1.What was the damage of the earthquake?
A. The headquarters of the UN mission was totally destroyed.
B. Some of the national palace had fallen to the ground.
C. A hospital was partly ruined in Pétionville.
D. All the walls of the Hotel Oloffson had fallen.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A. All the hospitals in Haiti were destroyed in the earthquake.
B. The earthquake was the worst in Haiti in less than two centuries.
C. After dark the city fell into darkness because of the earthquake.
D. Communication, electricity and transportation were all affected.
3.It can be learned from the text that ________.
A. fires broke out in the capital city due to the earthquake
B. Haiti covers the entire geographic plates of the earth
C. the earthquake caused the southern fault zone to break
D. a grand hotel was completely ruined in Pétionville
4.In Haiti, one way to reduce losses in earthquakes is probably to ________.
A. repair the Southern fault zone
B. move to the seaside
C. improve the quality of the buildings
D. live in tin-roof buildings
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A terrible earthquake hit Haiti on January l3，2010，_____tens of thousands of people
dead or homeless．
| A．1eaving | B．to leave | C．1eft | D．having been left |
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A big earthquake __________7.1 on the Richter scale struck Yushu, knocking down buildings and causing more than two thousands people to lose their lives．
A. measured B. measuring C. to be measured D. measures
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A terrible earthquake struck Wenchuan, Sichuan Province on May 12th,_____more than 60,000 deaths.
| A．caused | B．having caused | C．to have caused | D．Causing |
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A terrible earthquake struck Sichuan Province on May 12, _____ tens of thousands of lives.
| A．claiming | B．claimed | C．causing | D．caused |
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A terrible earthquake struck Wenchuan, Sichuan Province on May 12th,_____more than 60,000 deaths.
A．caused B．having caused
C．to have caused D．causing
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The Haiti earthquake at the beginning of 2010 is believed _______ more than 100,0130 people and makes millions homeless, ______ it perhaps the most destroying earthquake in history.
| A．to kill; making | B．to have killed; making | C．having killed; to make | D．killing; made |
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The earthquake in Haiti and the suffering ____ leads to have great influence on the people there.
| A．what | B．that | C．which | D．it |
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_ massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck ___ Pacific coastal areas of northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.
| A．A; the | B．A; / | C．The; the | D．The; / |
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The City of Christchurch, New Zealand was struck by a 7.1magnitude earthquake on the early morning of Saturday, September 4, 2010.
No tsunami alert was reported. The country's army troops were on standby to assist victims and disaster recovery operation. New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key, flew to the affected area to inspect and assess the situation of the damaged city. The Prime Minister said that the full assessment of the damages would possibly take months to know the severity of damages. Based from his assessment on what he saw in the area, it could cost at least 2 billion New Zealand dollars or US$1.4 billion for reconstruction.
“An absolute miracle that no one died，” Prime Minister John Key said. Two were seriously injured from this quake and thousands of local residents were awakened after being shaken at 4：35 a.m. of that Saturday.
There were people trapped inside the damaged buildings but fortunately none were reported dead from the rubble of the damaged buildings.
“We're all feeling scared—we've just had some significant aftershocks，” a survivor told TV One News. “Tonight we're just people in the face of a massive natural disaster, trying to help each other and we're grateful we haven't lost a life.”
GNS Science reported 29 aftershocks within the 14 hours after the quake, with strength from magnitude 3.7 to 5.4.
New_Zealand_is_no_stranger_to_earthquakes. The country experiences more than 14，000 earthquakes a year—but only about 150 are felt by people.
“Many buildings here were built with earthquake protection measure. However, in most cities in developing countries, people build how they want to and there're no building controls to force them to build to a higher standard that's safe，” Andrew Charleson, an architecture professor at Victoria University of Wellington told CNN.
1.How many people were killed in the New Zealand earthquake on September 4, 2010?
A．250，000. B．29. C．2. D．0.
2.After the earthquake, all of the following occurred EXCEPT that________．
A．a number of aftershocks broke out
B．army troops were there to help
C．no people were injured or killed
D．the full assessment of the damages can't take in a short time
3.What does the writer want to say by quoting Professor Andrew Charleson's words in the last paragraph?
A．Earthquakes are much more terrible and bigger in developing countries.
B．Lacking of money, developing countries can't build safe buildings.
C．Building controls are the guarantee of safe buildings.
D．In developing countries, people have more freedom to design their buildings the way they like.
4.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A．Earthquakes break out frequently in New Zealand.
B．The earthquakes breaking out in New Zealand are very strange.
C．The earthquakes breaking out in New Zealand are unusual.
D．Earthquakes rarely hit New Zealand.
5.What's the main idea of the passage?
A．A massive earthquake struck the city of Christchurch of New Zealand.
B．No one was ever killed in earthquakes in New Zealand.
C．New Zealand has strict laws to guarantee the buildings' safety.
D．A miracle happened in the terrible earthquake.
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