2019-2020学年度人教版必修一 Unit4Earthquakes Period1reading学案

A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep

Ⅰ.Why does the writer use "A night the earth didn't sleep" as the title?

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Ⅱ. Fast reading.

What does the passage mainly talk about? When and where did the earthquake happen?

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Ⅲ.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Paragraph Topic sentence Position in paragraph 1 2 3 4 Ⅳ.How many parts can this passage be divided into?

Part paragraph Main idea 1 Ⅴ.Careful reading. Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.

Data(数据)

______of the nation felt the earthquake .

A huge crack that was kilometers long and meters wide cut across houses.

In terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.

The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than .

All of the city's hospitals, _ of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.

Ⅵ.Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1.But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.

2. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.

3. Then, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan.

4. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.

Ⅶ.语言点：

1.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away...

imagine:

imagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl.

imagine sb. to be