答案

A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep

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

Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses it as title to show how terrible and unusual that night was.

Ⅱ. Fast reading. An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976

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

Paragraph Topic sentence Position in paragraph 1 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. beginning 2 Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end. beginning 3 Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. beginning 4 All hope was not lost. beginning Ⅳ.How many parts can this passage be divided into?

Part paragraph Main idea 1 Paragraph 1 Strange things happened before the earthquake. 2 Paragraph 2/3 The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan 3 Paragraph 4 The army came to help the survivors. Ⅴ.Careful reading

Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.

Data(数据)

* .1/3

* 8 30

* 15 2/3

* 400,000

* 75%

* 90%

语言点：

1. right now

　　 right away

　　4.

　　 is

　　　are

　　 have hurt

injure

　　 injured

wounded