2008年职称英语等级考试教材理工类新增内容完整版[精品].doc

2008年?职称英语等?级考试教材?理工类新增?内容完整版? 第七篇 Moder?ate earth?quake? strik?es Engla?nd Moder?ate earth?quake? strik?es Engla?nd A moder?ate earth?quake? struc?k parts? of south?east Engla?nd on 28 April? 2007, toppl?ing chimn?eys from house?s and rousi?ng resid?ents from their? beds. Sever?al thous?and peopl?e were left witho?ut power?1 in Kent Count?y2. One woman? suffe?red minor? head and neck injur?ies. It felt as if the whole? house? was being? slid acros?s like a fun-fair ride3?, said the woman?. The Briti?sh Geolo?gical? Surve?y said the 4.3-magni?tude quake?4 struc?k at 8:19 a.m. and was cente?red under? the Engli?sh Chann?el5, about? 8.5 miles? south? of Dover?6 and near the entra?nce to the Chann?el Tunne?l7. Witne?sses said crack?s appea?red in walls? and chimn?eys colla?psed acros?s the count?y. Resid?ents said the tremo?r had laste?d for about? 10 to 15 secon?ds. I was lying? in bed and it felt as if someo?ne had just got up from bed next to me, said Hendr?ick van Eck, 27, of Cante?rbury?8 about? 60 miles? south?east of Londo?n. I then heard? the sound? of crack?ing, and it was getti?ng heavi?er and heavi?er9. It felt as if someo?ne was at the end of my bed hoppi?ng up and down. There? are thous?ands of moder?ate quake?s on this scale? aroun?d the world? each year, but they are rare in Brita?in. The April? 28 quake? was the stron?gest in Brita?in since? 2002 when a 4. 8-magni?tude quake? struc?k the centr?al Engla?nd city of Birmi?ngham?10. The count?rys stron?gest earth?quake? took place? in the North? Sea in 1931, measu?ring 6.1 on the Richt?er scale?11. Briti?sh Geolo?gical? Surve?y scien?tist Roger? Musso?n said the quake? took place? on 28 April? in an area that had seen sever?al of the bigge?st earth?quake?s ever to strik?e Brita?in, inclu?ding one in 1580 that cause?d damag?e in Londo?n and was felt in Franc?e12. Musso?n predi?cted that it was only a matte?r of time1?3 befor?e anoth?er earth?quake? struc?k t