Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

阅读短文并选择正确的答案。

A ten-year-old girl saved about one hundred other tourists in 2004 by warning them that a tsunami, a huge ocean wave, was on its way across the sea. She knew what was happening because she learnt about underwater earthquakes at school only a few weeks earlier, a newspaper reported.

在2004年，一个10岁的女孩通过提醒人们海啸——一种巨大的海浪——正从海面上涌来，挽救了大约一百名其他游客的性命。报纸报道说，因为仅在几周前她在学校学习了水下地震的知识，所以她知道正在发生什么事。

"I was on the beach and the water started to go funny," Tilly Smith told the reporter from the newspaper. "There were bubbles and the water went back suddenly. I knew there was going to be a tsunami. I told Mum," she said.

“我正在沙滩上，海水开始变得很不平常。”蒂莉史密斯告诉报社的记者。“有水泡并且海水突然退回去了。我知道将会有海啸，我告诉了我妈妈，”她说。

Tilly's mother and the hotel workers acted quickly. They cleared people from the beach just minutes before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.

蒂莉的妈妈和旅馆的工作人员迅速行动起来。他们把人们从沙滩上转移走了，仅仅数分钟之后，巨大的海浪就到达了陆地。幸运的是，没有人丧生。

Tilly's teacher was very proud of her. "She's a very clever girl... It is very lucky that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas," he told the newspaper.

蒂莉的老师为地感到很自豪。“她是一个很聪明的女孩……很幸运我们班恰好在圣诞节前两周正在学习这种海啸的知识，”他告诉报社（人员）。

TSUNAMIHAZARD ZONE

海啸危险地带

IN CASE OF EARTHQUAKE,GO TO HIGH GROUND ORINLAND

如果发生地震，去高地或者内陆

1. What is the best title for this passage?

这篇短文的最佳题目是什么？

a) 2004 Asian tsunami.

2004年亚洲海啸。

b) A girl saves tourists from tsunami.

一个女孩挽救游客免于海啸（袭击）。

c) Underwater earthquakes.

水下地震。

2. What did Tilly notice?

蒂莉注意到了什么？

a) Water coming to the beach.

正涌向沙滩的海水。

b) People watching the water.

在看海水的人们。

c) Bubbles in the water.

海水中的水泡。

3. What does her teacher think of Tilly?

她的老师认为蒂莉怎么样？

a) She is lucky.

她很幸运。

b)She does not do silly things.

她没有做傻事。

c) She is a clever student.

她是一个聪明的学生。

Around the world

地界各地

Special buildings in Japan

日本特别的建筑

Earthquakes are very common in Japan. Many can cause a lot of damage. But now there are new ways of constructing buildings to make them safer and stronger during earthquakes. The Yokohama Landmark Tower is one of the tallest buildings in Japan. It is heavy and strong. It sits on rollers. This means the earth can rise and fall beneath the building without shaking it.

在日本，地震是很常见的。很多（地震）可能造成大量损失，但是现在有盖楼的新方法使它们在地震期间更安全、更坚固。是日本最高的建筑之一。它很重、很坚固。它坐落在滚轴上，这意味着在大楼下面的地面在上升和下降时不会晃动大楼。

Module task: Making a poster about preventing accidents at school

模块任务：制作一张关于在学校防止事故发生的海报