1、Unit 6 Disaster and hope灾难是新普通高中英语课程标准中规定的话题之一,是培养学生英语学科核心素养的一个重要维度,该话题属于“人与自然”的主题。The destructive ocean storm,Hurricane Dorian(多里安飓风),has moved little since striking the Bahamas Islands on Monday.The storm hasdestroyed homes and forced thousands of people to seek shelter.Officials report at least f
2、ive people have died.Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis called the storm“a historic tragedy”.The storm hit the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama,affecting about 70,000 people.When it firstreached the islands,it was a powerful Category 5storms which flooded the Grand Bahama airport.Category 5 stor
3、ms are the most powerful and damaging of all hurricanes.Frightened people tried to find family members by leaving messages with local radio stations.Red Cross spokesman Matthew Cochrane said about 45 percent of the homes in Grand Bahama and Abacowere believed to have been severely damaged or destroy
4、ed.U.N.officials said more than 60,000 people on the islands will need food,and the Red Cross said about 62,000 will need clean drinking water.The Red Cross officials are sending$500,000 immediately,Cochrane said.Bahamian parliament(议会)member Iram Lewissaid he feared rising water would trap people w
5、ho would be unable to contact help as their phone batteries died.By Tuesday,Dorians winds had slowed,making it a still very dangerous Category 2 hurricane with wind speeds recorded at 177 kilometers an hour.The center of the hurricane has not moved too far from theBahamas.Hundreds of thousands of pe
6、ople in Florida,Georgia and South Carolina were warned to evacuate(疏散)because of possible flooding caused by the storm.Also,several airports in the area closed on Tuesday,causing hundreds of flights to be canceled.【素养贴心语】飓风每年都会发生,对人类的生命和财产造成巨大的损失。事实上,除了飓风之外,其他的自然灾难也时常会发生,并且灾难通常是和人类的破坏性活动有关系的。所以,我们应该做的是:尽最大努力去减少对环境的破坏,尽可能多地去保护我们的地球。
