《灾害英语选读》PDF下载

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  • 作  者:韩红梅主编;赵子维,张莉,胡晓欧副主编
  • 出 版 社:北京:清华大学出版社
  • 出版年份:2013
  • ISBN:9787302338239
  • 页数:256 页
图书介绍:本书内容主要选自国外各类媒体对各种自然灾害及公共安全事件的评述报道、新闻社论、专家解析、历史回顾和未来展望。对于每一种自然灾害和公共安全事件,书中都有一个简短的介绍,是为普及科普知识付出的一点努力。内容编排考虑到自然灾害和公共安全事件的类型分为四部分,每部分根据具体灾害和公共安全事件分为不同单元,每单元精选三篇阅读文章。前两篇文章设置有练习题,第三篇设计为扩展阅读。书后配有习题答案和词汇表供参考。

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