Extension

● Oral Work

1.Group Discussion

1)How would you classify this essay? Is it an academic paper written by a historian or an archaeologist? Or is it an article written just to recreate the horror of a natural disaster?

2)Is there any special moral in the text?

3)What has the rediscovered Pompeii revealed about ancient Rome?

2.Debating

Human beings need to have a sense of humility toward nature.

● Quiz

1. She was so _______ in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door.

a. attracted      b. absorbed

c. drawn       d. concentrated

2. We managed to reach the top of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to_______.

a. descend       b. ascend

c. decline      d. plunge

3. He has been imprisoned again. It seems his _______ is to send up his life in jail.

a. fate      b. doom

c. destiny      d. fortune

4. That volcano _______ in 1946 after one hundred and twenty years of silence.

a. exploded      b. burst

c. erupted       d. blew

5. To the waiter’s relief, the plates were left _______ after being dropped on the floor.

a. broken       b. unchanged

c. unharmful       d. intact

6. Please be careful when you are drinking coffee in case you _______ the new carpet.

a. crash       b. pollute

c. stain      d. spot

7. The ammunition dump _______ when it was hit by a mortar.

a. blew up       b. blew over

c. blew off       d. blew away

8. I’m sorry I’m late. I was in a meeting and couldn’t _______.

a. get back       b. get across

c. get away       d. get around

9. People’s creativity is _______.

a. breaking forth      b. breaking in

c. breaking loose       d. breaking back

10. The man _______ after the car collided with the van.

a. came out      b. came to life

c. came off       d. came around

11. Time ______, the celebration will be held as scheduled.

a. permit       b. permitting

c. permitted       d. permits

12. ______ at in this way, the resent economic situation doesn’t seem to gloomy.

a. Looking       b. To look

c. Having looked       d. Looked

13. ______, he can know only watch it on TV at home.

a. Obtaining not a ticket for the match

b. Not obtaining a ticket for the match

c. Not having obtained a ticket for the match

d. Not obtained a ticket for the match

14. ______ enough time and money, the researcher would have been able to discover more in this field.

a. Giving       b. Given

c. To give       d. Being given

15. He wasn't appointed chairman of the committee, ________ not very popular with all its members.

a. to be considered

b. considering　　 　　　　　　

c. being considered

d. having considered

16. I hope all the precautions against air pollution, _______ suggested by the local government, will be seriously considered here.

a. while       b. since

c. after       d. as

17. I've never been to Beijing, but it's the place _______.

a. where I'd like to visit

b. I most want to visit

c. in which I'd like to visit

d. that I want to visit it most

18. This crop has similar qualities to the previous one, ________ both wind-resistant and adapted to the same type of soil.

a. being       b. been

c. to be       d. having been

19. ___ you are leaving tomorrow, we can eat dinner together tonight.

a. For       b. Since

c. Before       d. While

20. We have been told that under no circumstances ____ the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

a. may we use      b. we may use

c. we could use       d. did we use

Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

●Magma is stored in crustal reservoirs before ________. (erupt)

● __________ foods must be kept refrigerated. (perish)

●Paris is a __________ city in the world. (prosperity)

●She __________ the gravy with flour. (thick)

●The rattlesnake’s bite is ________. (poison)

●Writing

What lesson do you think people today can learn from the past disasters?

●Listening Lab

The poison gas _________ as the terrible night advanced. It was possible to protect oneself from the pumice stones but not from the gas, and Pompeiians died by the _____________. Carbon monoxide gas prevents the body from ___________ oxygen. Victims of carbon monoxide poisoning get sleepier and sleepier until they lose _________________, never to regain it. All over Pompeii, people lay down on _________ of pumice stones, overwhelmed by the gas, and death came quietly to them.

All through the endless night, Pompeiians ___________ about the streets or crouched in their ruined homes or _________ in the temples to pray. By morning few remained alive. Not once had Vesuvius stopped _________ pumice stones and ash into the air, and the streets of Pompeii were filling quickly. At midday on August 25th, exactly twenty-four hours after the beginning of the first _________, a second eruption occurred. A second cloud of ash rose above Vesuvius’ _________. The wind blew ash as far as Rome. But most of the new ash descended on Pompeii.