5. As a child, he watched a river sweep away (冲走)the wheat planted on the family farm in Indiana.

6. My father has had a great effect on(有很大影响) me since I was a little boy. He teaches me how to do a good person.

7. The environment has been getting worse and worse since 1983, when the Labour government came to power(上台).

8. We aid them in(帮助)fighting against their enemy.

9. Deaths caused by the tsunami this year now stands at (达到)138.

10. Visitors to Beijing are usually struck by (被打动)the great number of trees in the city.

Ⅰ. 阅读理解

　　As we know, earthquakes can bring people much fear. There are some places that have few or no earthquakes. Most places in the world, however, have them regularly. Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.

　　The most talked about earthquake in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906. Over 700 people died in it. The strongest one in North America was in 1964. It happened in Alaska.

Strong earthquakes are not always the ones that kill the most people.