2nd Period Revision ReadingComprehending Practice Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP?Why were so many people killed or injured?What does the sentence “ Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?1. What natural signs of a coming disaster were there? 2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs werent noticed? 3. What events probably made the disaster worse? 4. What situations probably made the disasterworse? 5. How were the survivors helped?Paragraph 1Paragraph 2Paragraph 3Paragraph 4Look at the each part and write down its main idea. Part 1Part 2Part 3Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them.The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.Language points 1. Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. imagine: form a mental picture imagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl. imagine sb. to be shake : cause to move to and fro right away : at once ; in no time ; immediately right now : at this very moment Make up your mind_. Ill return the book_.right now right awayThe walls had deep _ in it.The walls had deep _ in it.crackscracks2. The water in the village well_ _ _.rose rose andandfellfellHe _from his chair when the door bell rang.Her job is _chickens.Her temperature is still_.He _in rank recently.Compare: rise destroy ; damageEverywhere they looked nearly everything was _. destroyedHe _ his girl friends prospectsruinedSoft wood _easily.damagesinjure: to hurt oneself/ sb / sth. physically9.9. Two-thirds Two-thirds of the people died or were _ of the people died or were _ during the earthquake.during the earthquake.injuredtwo-thirds= two thirds More than 61% of the surface of the surface of the earth _covered by water. Seventy percent of the workers in this factory _young.isareCompare: injure ; hurt ; wound Their criticisms _him deeply.Smoking will _his health.He was slightly _in the car accident.He got _in the fighting.What you said _my feeling.have hurtinjuredinjuredwoundedhurt_covered the ground like autumn leaves. People were _.Bricksshocked10. The number of people who were killed orinjured _ more than 400,000.reached reach : to achieve of obtain sth. 11. Some of the _workers and doctors were _under the ruins.rescue trappedrescue : (n) an act of rescuing or being rescuedrescue : (v) to save or set free from harm, danger, or losstrap : (v) in a place form which one wants to escape but cannotwonder : v. A. to have a feeling of surprise.B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt.n. one that arouses astonishment, surprise ; admiration It is no wonder (that )= No wonder (that)wonder12.People began to _how long the disaster would last.-Tom often works deep into the night every day. -No wonder he always gets first in the examinations.13. All hope was not lost. allnot = not all.: some but not all Not all the children are left.(= Only some of them left early.) Not all the children are noisy. (= Some of the children are not noisy.) none of . None of us were allowed to go there. None of these reports is very helpful.The railway tracks were_pieces of _.useless steelThe army _ teams to _ _those were trapped and to_ the deadorganizeddig out bury14. bury the dead. bury : A. to place in the ground:B. to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb: The dog buried the bone in the ground. I buried myself in my studies. bury oneself in = be buried in devote oneself to = be devoted toPeople became_ as a _of the earthquake. They had to look for _ from the earthquake with their_things.homelessresult shelters necessarySome of the _ workers and doctors were _under the _.rescuetrappedruinsTo the north of the city,most of the100,000miners were _ _ the _ _.rescued fromcoal minesWorkers built _ for _ whose homes had been destroyed.shelterssurvivorsthe water in the village wells rise and fall a deep crack come out of in the farmyard too nervous to eat look for place to hide bright lights in the sky the water pipes one million people of the city think little of as usual begin to shake at an end directly below the city one -third of the nationeight km long thirty km wide cut across houses steam burst from holes on/in the ground hard hills of rock rivers of dirt in ruins reach more than