[单项选择]The earthquake has caused serious (damage) to this city.
A. destruction
B. hurt
C. injury
D. wound

[单项选择]The earthquake has caused serious (damage) to this city.
A. destruction
B. hurt
C. injury
D. wound

[单项选择]Earthquake damage has caused some of the communications networks to shut down ______ until essential repairs are carried out.
A. complete
B. completely
C. completeness
D. completion

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An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault (断层). A fault is a fracture in the crust (地壳) of the earth along which rocks on one side have moved relative to those on the other side. Stresses in the earth’s outer layer push the sides of the fault together, build up, and then the rocks slips suddenly, releasing energy in waves that travel through the rock to cause the shaking that we feel during an earthquake.
Earthquakes tend to be concentrated in narrow zones. There are 7 major crystal plates on earth, about 80 km thick, all in constant motion relative to one another. They move at a rate of between 10 and 130 mm per year.
It is estimated that there are several million earthquakes in the world each year. Many of these earthquakes go undetected because they occur in remote areas or have very small magnitudes (震级). The USGS Earthquake Information Centre locates 12, 000 to 14,000 earthquakes each year (about 35 per day). On average, about 60 earthquakes p
A. how earthquakes are formed and classified
B. how earthquakes can be predicted and located
C. earthquakes do not so often occur on the earth
D. earthquakes are considered to be a threat to humans

[填空题]The amount of damage caused by an earthquake depends on the place, time, strength, types of buildings, soil conditions, and ______.

[简答题]The earthquake in Japan caused what kind of disaster？

[单项选择]What caused the damage to the tourist sites
A. Pollution.
B. Tourists.
C. Tidal waves.

[填空题]One kind of deafness is caused by damage in the brain or to ______.

[单项选择]During an earthquake, the great part of damage and loss of life has been______ collapse of buildings and the effect of rockslides, floods, fire, diseases, and other phenomena resulting from earthquakes, rather than from the quakes themselves.


A. due to
B. owing to
C. by reason of
D. on account of

[单项选择]A serious critic has to comprehend the particular content, unique structure, and special meaning of a work of art. And here she faces a dilemma. The critic must recognize the artistic element of uniqueness that requires subjective reaction; yet she must not be unduly prejudiced by such reactions. Her likes and dislikes are less important than what the work itself communicates, and her preferences may blind her to certain qualities of the work and thereby prevent an adequate understanding of it. Hence, it is necessary that a critic develop a sensibility informed by familiarity with the history of art and aesthetic theory. On the other hand, it is insufficient to treat the artwork solely historically, in relation to a fixed set of ideas or values. The critic’s knowledge and training are, rather, a preparation of the cognitive and emotional abilities needed for all adequate personal response to an artwork’s own particular qualities.
According to the author, a serious art critic may avo
A. treats an artwork in relation to a fixed set of ideas and values
B. brings to her observation a knowledge of art history and aesthetic theory
C. allows more time for the observation of each artwork
D. takes into account the preferences of other art critics