Choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank in the following passage. (1.5 pts)
On a yearly (1)______, the USA is afflicted by hurricanes on the east coast, flooding in the Midwest, forest fires, earthquakes, and any number of tornadoes, blizzards, and storms. Historically, the weather has (2)_________ as harsh a chord in people’s lives as any we feel today. Historians list the four major events to wreak devastation (3)________ the country as the Chicago fire in 1871, the Johnstown flood and the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. These (4)_______ provide a flavor of the havoc that natures storms have wrecked on humanity and our reactions to them. Galveston, Texas, (5) _______ on the island of Galveston in the Gulf of New Mexico, (6)_________ on industry and exports. It's over 30,000 citizens in the early 1900s were generally economically successful and comfortable with existing conditions. (7)___________ the ill-fated morning of Sept. 7, 1900, the people of Galveston enjoyed their life on the remote island. (8)______ weather watchers had been following a (9)_______ storm* in the Atlantic for several days and were warning of the (10)_____________ danger of a hurricane. Unfortunately, people (11)_________ the warnings. A day after the hurricane had hit the island, all that (12)____________ of the beautiful city was, a mass of crumbled buildings, debris, and hopeless survivors (13)___________ aimlessly with the stench of rotting flesh all around. However, a few days later, that the city was beginning to heal became (14) ______________ everywhere – soon new buildings were (15) _______ the burned, and the lifeblood of the ravaged city was returning.
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Lời giải:
Báo saiGiải thích: Catastrophe = thảm họa, tai ương (nói cả về thời tiết). Danger = sự nguy hiểm. Risk = mối nguy hiểm, nguy cơ. Threat = sự đe dọa
Tạm dịch: Những thảm họa này mang đến một hương vị của sự tàn phá mà các cơn bão tự nhiên đã tàn phá nhân loại và phản ứng của chúng ta đối với chúng.