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　　Beijing－An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale left 5,000 people homeless, killed at least one person and injured 39 others in southwest China, on Thursday, with more accidents expected.

　　By late Thursday, 4,900 people were declared homeless after the quake destroyed their homes in a mountainous area lying on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. The dawn quake left one dead and 39 injured, destroyed 268 houses and damaging 1,132 other buildings so seriously that they were considered uninhabitable.

　　Another 2,400 houses suffered less serious damage. The epicenter(震中) was near the scenic Lugu Lake, a tourist site, where the local school was severely damaged.

　　Preliminary(最初的) estimates put economic losses at 180 million yuan(22 million dollars).

　　Governments in Yanyuan and the neighboring Yunnan county of Ninglang have joined forces in the rescue efforts and tents, clothes and medicine are badly in need for the earthquake victims.

　　The mountainous terrain, heavy rain and several aftershocks all prevented rescue efforts on Thursday. The rain could cause more badly damaged homes to fall down.

　　More dead and injured are expected “as rescuers have yet to reach many faraway areas”. It is very hard for rescue workers because most houses are scattered around the mountains, which are inhabited by Yi and other ethnic minority groups(少数民族).

　　The quake hit the area at 5:10 am Beijing time (2,110 Wednesday GMT). Earthquakes regularly affect the two counties with two quakes measuring 5.0 and 6.2 on the Richter scale killing at least three people and injuring more than 1,500 in Ninglang in November 1998.

　　The area is about 100 kilometers from the historic Yunnan town of Lijiang, which was struck in 1996 by an earthquake that killed more than 250 people and injured 14,000.

1．The author's purpose in writing the passage is to ________.

[　　]

A．tell us the earthquake taking place in Yunnan has caused 5,000 homeless

B．warn the people in mountainous areas in Yunnan to take care earthquake

C．call on more help from the people all over the country

D．analyse why the earthquake took place in this area

2．The underlined word “scattered” in the seventh paragraph has a closest meaning to ________.

[　　]

A．not situated together
B．situated together
C．pulled down
D．rebuilt

3．“The two counties” here refers to ________.

[　　]

A．Yunnan and Sichuan
B．Yanyuan and Ninglang
C．Yanyuan and Yunnan
D．Yunnan and Ninglang
答案：A;A;C
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名师导引：本篇短文主要介绍在云南和四川边界发生的一场5．8级的地震造成两县五千多人无家可归的报道。题1是推测作者意图题；题2、3是词义推测题，要运用排除、比较及上下文等方法来判断。


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A．what films the writer liked and disliked

B．why the writer walked out of films

C．what the writer thought of film critics' remarks

D．why the writer didn't go to see the other eight films

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A．The canned orange had gone bad.

B．She didn't use the right kind of flour.

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2．Why did the woman put the dough in the rubbish bin?

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A．She didn't see the use of keeping it.

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[　　]

A．speaking the same language doesn't necessarily bring peace

B．wars can destroy the relationship between two countries

C．English doesn't kill other languages

D．English is widely used in the world

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[　　]

A．it's very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden

B．it's good for people from other countries to learn English

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D．English will kill other languages

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[　　]

A．why English has become a global language

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C．how many people in the world speak English

D．whether we need worry about English being a world language

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[　　]

A．students cheat in the exams

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C．teachers catch cheating students

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A．was completed in Anhui Province last Monday

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[　　]

A．a law intended to improve the English of immigrant families

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