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本書主要選自國外媒體對各種自然災害及公共安全事件的評述報道、新聞社論、專家解析、歷史回顧和未來展望。對于每一種自然災害和公共安全事件，書中都有一個簡短的介紹，是為普及科普知識付出的一點努力。在全書的內容編排上，根據自然災害和公共安全事件的類型分為四部分，每部分根據具體災害和公共安全事件分為不同單元，每單元精選三篇閱讀文章。前兩篇文章設置有練習題，第三篇設計為擴展閱讀。書后附有習題答案和詞匯表，供學習者參考。
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目次
Unit One Earthquakes
Text A Squeezing Water from Rock
Text B Can We Save California?
Text C Earthquakes Shake Northern Italy
Unit Two Mudslides and Landslides
Text A Hundreds Killed in Rio de Janeiro Mudslides
Text B When Land Slides
Text C Papua New Guinea: Dozens Dead and Missing in Landslide
Unit Three Tsunamis
Text A Going Vertical: Fleeing Tsunamis by Moving up, Not out
Text B Tsunami Wreaks Mental Health Havoc
Text C Indonesia: Inadequate Relief Endangers Disaster Victims
Unit Four Volcano Eruptions
Text A Deepest Explosive Eruption on Sea Floor: Underwater Remotely
Part One Geological Disasters
Unit One Earthquakes
Text A Squeezing Water from Rock
Text B Can We Save California?
Text C Earthquakes Shake Northern Italy
Unit Two Mudslides and Landslides
Text A Hundreds Killed in Rio de Janeiro Mudslides
Text B When Land Slides
Text C Papua New Guinea: Dozens Dead and Missing in
Landslide
Unit Three Tsunamis
Text A Going Vertical: Fleeing Tsunamis by Moving up, Not
out
Text B Tsunami Wreaks Mental Health Havoc
Text C Indonesia: Inadequate Relief Endangers Disaster
Victims
Unit Four Volcano Eruptions
Text A Deepest Explosive Eruption on Sea Floor: Underwater
Remotely
Operated Vehicle Jason Images Discovery
Text B Volcanic Ash Cloud Leaves Hundreds of Thousands
Stranded
in Europe
Text C Could a Changing Climate Set off Volcanoes and
Quakes?
Part Two Meteorological Disasters
Unit One Floods
Text A Queensland Crisis Points to Lack of Flood Mitigation
and Basic
Infrastructure
Text B More Deaths As a "Wall of Water" Engulfs
Queensland
Towns
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書摘/試閱
Judging from the miles and miles of bumper to bumper traffic on the major highways,many residents are heeding the official warnings this time.New Orleans native and teacher Kevin Bachemin,44,is one of them.He was planning to ride out the hurricane in the city until he heard the dire predictions of damage that Hurricane Gustav might cause.
"Things have changed! Im loading my truck right now,"he said Saturday night."Anybody like me is getting out of here.People were gradually pulling out two days ago.Now they are really moving,trying to get out of here."
Bachemin left New Orleans for Katrina in 2005 but his two-story Gentilly house withstood the storm,receiving two feet of water on the first floor.As a result,he planned to ride out Gustav at home,"when it was a Category 2 or even when it was a 3,"he said."Now its a big storm"and with Nagin issuing a mandatory evacuation,"l dont have a choice.Im getting out."
Residents along the Louisiana Gulf Coast began to leave Friday.Preparations began a couple of days before that with residents boarding windows,buying generators,batteries and water,and filling up their cars with gas.Traffic mixed with evacuees and fans headed to the first Louisiana State University football game of the season started to back up on 1-10 West toward Baton Rouge Friday evening.A drive that normally takes a little more than an hour took about two and a half hours.
Evacuations intensified Saturday morning after coastal parishes issued mandatory evacuation orders.New Orleans began its new city-assisted evacuation program at 8 a.m.Saturday.Residents who had no other means to get out of the city were allowed to bring one bag and a pet in a carrier to various locations where they could board city buses that took them to the Union Passenger Terminal,the citys bus and train station.Officials worked all night to process residents there,and by Sunday morning,the city had processed more than 10,000 residents to get out by bus or train.Those on the buses were being taken to shelters in Shreveport,Monroe or Alexandria.Those on the train and chartered planes,including tourists,were being transported out of state,to places such as Memphis,Tenn.
