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Part One Geological Disasters 1

Unit One Earthquakes 3

Text A Squeezing Water from Rock 4

Text B Can We Save California? 10

Text C Earthquakes Shake Northern Italy 15

Unit Two Mudslides and Landslides 18

Text A Hundreds Killed in Rio de Janeiro Mudslides 19

Text B When Land Slides 24

Text C Papua New Guinea：Dozens Dead and Missing in Landslide 29

Unit Three Tsunamis 32

Text A Going Vertical：Fleeing Tsunamis by Moving up， Not out 33

Text B Tsunami Wreaks Mental Health Havoc 37

Text C Indonesia：Inadequate Relief Endangers Disaster Victims 43

Unit Four Volcano Eruptions 47

Text A Deepest Explosive Eruption on Sea Floor： Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason Images Discovery 48

Text B Volcanic Ash Cloud Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Stranded in Europe 52

Text C Could a Changing Climate Set off Volcanoes and Quakes？ 57

Part Two Meteorological Disasters 63

Unit One Floods 65

Text A Queensland Crisis Points to Lack of Flood Mitigation and Basic Infrastructure 66

Text B More Deaths As a “Wall of Water” Engulfs Queensland Towns 71

Text C Pakistan’s Despair：Through Hell and High Water 76

Unit Two Hurricanes 84

Text A Hurricane Isaac Pounds Gulf Coast 85

Text B New Orleans Braces for Gustav 90

Text C Special Report on the Galveston Hurricane 95

Unit Three Tornadoes 100

Text A Nighttime Tornadoes are Worst Nightmare：Twisters That Occur from Midnight to Dawn are 2.5 Times More Likely to Kill 101

Text B Is Climate Change Causing an Upsurge in US Tornadoes？ 105

Text C Tri-State Tornado：Missouri，Illinois，Indiana, March 1925 111

Unit Four Snow and Ice 115

Text A Mounting Anger over Sydney Hailstorm Disaster 116

Text B China on Ice 120

Text C East Coast Blizzard Lays Bare Social Crisis of US Cities 126

Part Three Biological Disasters 131

Unit One Pest Disaster 133

Text A The Perfect Swarm：Locusts Threaten Eastern Australia 134

Text B The Beaver: Destructive Pest or Climate Saviour? 138

Text C Cricket Swarm Brings Plague to State’s North—Insects Keep Finding Ways to Thwart Efforts to Eradicate Them 142

Unit Two Viruses 148

Text A HIV/AIDS Danger Increasing in the West 149

Text B EU States Downplay Risk as Bird Flu Spreads Toward Western Europe 153

Text C US West Nile Virus Cases Double in One Week 159

Part Four Events of Public Security 163

Unit One Industrial Disasters 165

Text A Death in the Darkness 166

Text B China’s Toxic Shock 170

Text C After Fukushima：Massive Global Expansion of Nuclear Industry Under Way 175

Unit Two Traffic Accidents 180

Text A What Brought Down Air France Flight 447？ 181

Text B Australia：Fatal Train Accident Highlights Infrastructure Decay 185

Text C Mean Streets 189

Unit Three Environmental Disasters 196

Text A Severe Dust Storm Hits Australian Coastal Cities 197

Text B Pollution Lingers at Old Missile Sites 201

Text C Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Public Health 206

Key to Exercises 209

Glossary 216