（全国通用版）2019版高考英语大一轮复习 Unit 4 Earthquakes讲义 新人教版必修1.doc

1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 4 Earthquakes 重点单词 1 crack n裂缝；噼啪声 vt. a 2 smelly (smell) gas came out of the cracks of the wells; the chickens and even the pigs were 3 too nervous to eat. In the city the water pipes in some buildings cracked and 4 burst (burst) When the earth began to shake, it seemed as if the

2、 world was 5 at an end.Even 1/3 of the nation felt the earthquake.A huge crack that was 8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide cut6.across houses. In 15 terrible seconds a large city 7 lay (lie) in ruins. 2/3 of the people died or 8 were_injured (injure) during the earthquake. The number of people 9 w

3、ho/that were killed or injured reached more than 400,000. All of the citys hospitals, 75%of its factories and buildings and 90%of its homes were 10 gone (go) . 阅读理解 A Mike Godwin is an American lawyer and author who invented “Godwins Law” in 1990 when he made the following statement： As an online di

4、scussion grows longer, a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler is very likely to be made. Godwins Law is applicable to online discussions in forums, chat rooms, and on blogs. The term has earned a place in the Oxford English Dictionary： Godwins Law: noun. A facetious aphorism(有趣的格言 ) maintaining that

5、 as an online debate increases in length, it becomes certain that someone will eventually compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. Although coined to describe an Internet phenomenon, the term is being applied to the use of “the Nazi card” in other contex ts. A complaint by many forum users is that the socalled law is ending discussion. One makes a Nazi comparison and another cries, “You said Hitler, so I win ！ ” At