【创新设计】2016-2017学年高中英语 Module 3 The Violence of Nature Period One Introduction Reading and Vocabulary课时作业 外研版必修3.doc

Module 3 The Violence of Nature 话题导入 Building after building under water.Refugees(难民) in shelters.Thousands of others unsure where to go.Bodies in streets.This is what one of America’s historic cities was reduced to this week by a powerful storm，Katrina(卡特里娜)．The mayor of New Orleans says thousands may be dead.Hurricane Katrina also caused death and destruction in parts of Mississippi and Alabama along the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans is famous for its wild Mardi Gras celebrations.New Orleans is also a major port for foreign oil and other shipping trade.Yet the city of nearly five hundred thousand people was built below sea level.New Orleans has depended on levees to control floods from the Mississippi River.Katrina struck on Monday.New Orleans avoided a direct hit but two of the levees failed the next day.Most of the city was flooded.Helicopters dropped huge sandbags to fill the breaks.But the water had no place to go.Pumping stations had no power. America faces one of the worst natural events in its history.President Bush says the recovery will take years.People were told to leave the path of the storm.But some would not or could not.Many of those worst affected by Katrina are poor and black.African-American leaders and others were angry that government aid did not arrive faster.President Bush visited some of the damaged areas on Friday.He said the way officials reacted to the crisis was unacceptable. 根据上文完成下列各题 1．What’s the main idea of the first paragraph? The_terrible_scene_after_a_powerful_storm. 2．Why were African-American leaders and others angry? Because_in_this_disaster_the_government_aid_didn’t_arrive_in_time. Period One　Introduction Reading and Vocabulary Ⅰ.单词 1．disaster n．灾难 2．lightning n．闪电→light n．光→lighten vt.(使)发亮 3．experience vt.经历 n．经历；经验→experienced adj.有经验的 4．cause vt.引起；导致 5．furniture n．家具→furnish vt.陈设；布置 6．bury vt.埋葬 7．occur vi.发生→occurrence n．发生的事情；存在的事物 8．tropical adj.热带的→tropic n．(地球的)回归线；热带 9．violent adj.猛烈的；激烈的；强烈的→violence n．暴力 10．s