Tsunami warning system is tested
If he, the founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, were alive, Thomas Jaggar would be proud of the U.S. tsunami warning system after Friday’s devastating earthquake in Japan sent a surge (大浪，汹涌) of ocean water dashing toward the West Coast.
● WASHINGTON — So many people surged to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center website that it slowed to a crawl early Friday, unable to provide critical information to the public about the coastal impact in the U.S. of a massive earthquake in Japan.
McClatchy Washington Bureau — Mar 11 06:09 p.m.
● CHICAGO — A tsunami warning has been issued for the central and northern California coast and Oregon, the National Weather Service announced early Friday.
Chicago Tribune— Mar 11 06:07 a.m.
● HONOLULU — A tsunami warning was issued late on Thursday for Hawaii after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near Japan, prompting state civil defense officials to order all coastal areas evacuated（把…撤出…）by 2 a.m. local time. Tsunami sirens (警报) began sounding at 9:59 p.m. on Thursday. They have sounded every hour since 11:15 p.m.
Alaska Tsunami Warning Center also issued a warning for much of the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.
Reuters via Yahoo! News — Mar 11 01:22 a.m.
● LOMPOC — Tsunami warning ‘a wake-up call’
A tsunami warning that led to evacuations for coastal communities and campgrounds in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties Friday served as a successful trial for a more serious emergency, officials said after the danger passed.
The Lompoc Record — Mar 11 11:29 p.m.
● WELLINGTON — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a warning after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near Japan, and it said the sea level readings confirm that a tsunami has been generated and was in effect for some Pacific islands — Hawaii, China’s Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia etc.
New Straits Times — Mar 11 07:48 a.m.
— Reproduced by Yahoo Greenwich Meantime
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. A tsunami warning was issued for all the following states in the U.S. except for _____.
A. Ohio B. California C. Oregon D. Alaska
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The underlined word “prompting” (in the fourth paragraph) most probably means _____.
A. promoting B. advocating C. urging D. appealing
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According to the passage, the Pacific Tsunami warning was first reported by _____.
A. New Straits Times B. Reuters via Yahoo! News
C. McClatchy Washington Bureau D. Chicago Tribune
4..
In which city did the news agency issue a tsunami affecting for some other places apart from Japan and Hawaii?
A. LOMPOC. B. WASHINGTON. C. HONOLULU. D. WELLINGTON.
Dad taught me a lot about life, especially its hard times. I remembered one of his ___21___ one night when I was ready to ___22___ a political campaign I was losing, and wrote about it in my diary.
Tired, feeling the months of ___23___ in vain, I went up to my study to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil in the back of my desk drawer ___24___ I turned up one of Dad’s old business cards that he was proud of: Andrea Cuomo Italian-American Groceries --- Fine Imported Products. Then I thought about how he ___25___ with difficult situations. A lot of pictures ___26___ into my mind, but one scene came sharply into ___27___.
We had just moved to Holliswood, New York. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, ___28___, was a great blue spruce (云杉) that must have been 40 feet tall.
Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost ___29___ from the ground and thrown onto the street. When my brother Frankie and I saw the spruce, our hearts ___30___. But not Dad’s.
The rain was falling. Then he ___31___ , “Ok, we’re going to push him up!” “ What are you talking about, Dad? The ___32___ are out of the ground!” “ Shut up, we’re going to push him up, he’s going to grow again.” We couldn’t say ___33___ to him. So we ___34___ him into the house and got what rope ___35___ was and tied it around the top of the tree that lay on the street, and then he stood up by the house, ___36___ me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (桩) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”
I looked at the card and wanted to cry. I ___40 ___ wait to get back into the campaign.
1..
. A. ideas B. lessons C. talks D. conversations
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A. bury B. attempt C. trap D. quit
3..
A. struggle B. operation C. performance D. application
4..
A. as B. before C. while D. when
5..
. A. did B. occupied C. settled D. dealt
6..
A. appeared B. bumped C. leapt D. burst
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A. spot B. view C. scene D. site
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. A. in relief B. in need C. in particular D. in all
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A. absolutely B. accidentally C. totally D. automatically
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A. suffered B. carved C. sank D. infected
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A. announced B. challenged C. barked D. distributed
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A. trunks B. roots C. branches D. leaves
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A. anything B. no C. nothing D. something
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. A. accompanied B. hiked C. joined D. followed
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A. it B. that C. there D. this
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A. along B. via C. by D. with
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A. to help B. helped C. helping D. help
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. A. problem B. time C. way D. means
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A. drove B. removed C. delivered D. dragged
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A. needn’t B. wouldn’t C. shouldn’t D. couldn’t
--- Did you have a wonderful time at the ball last night?
--- __________! I’ve never had a more wonderful time all my life.
A. You bet B. No problem C. Don’t mention it D. That’s right
His oversight of the danger that resulted in two deaths and five wounded in the expedition was _________ criminal.
A. no less than B. not less than C. nothing less than D. less than
The film “Let the Bullets Fly” ______ a great success and ______ a large profit to the cinema.
A. appreciated; took up B. enjoyed; brought in
C. won; accounted for D. seized; cut down
--- The task is challenging and demanding. Who do you think can make it?
--- _______ my partner have a try? I think she is the right person to do it.
A. Will B. Might C. Should D. Shall
