Keys:1.When a hurricane comes, the heavy rain and strong winds make the trees down and house destroyed.
2.Because hurricanes can destroy trees, houses and make people lose their lives.
3.Because it had been raining heavily, the ground was wet and the trees were easily pushed over by the wind.
4.The army, the electricity workers and the telephone workers helped to get things back to normal after the hurricane.
5.Usually there are hurricanes in the southeast of China.
Step Ⅳ Reading
Read the text and try to know the general idea, and then tell the true or false sentences.
1. On Friday 16th Oct. 1987, a hurricane struck the southeast of England.
2. In the hurricane, ninety people lost their lives.
3. England usually has plenty of rain every month of the year.
4. In the morning people woke up and found the outside world hardly changed.
5. Many towns and villages had their water supply cut off because there was no electricity.
6. It took months to clear all the roads and to mend all the broken electricity lines and telephone lines by the army.
Answers: T F T F T F
Step 5 Watch video and then do exercise I on page 124
Step Ⅴ Practice
Read the text quickly and then do the written exercise by filling in the blanks .
In 1987, a hurricane 1 the southeast of England. Nineteen people lost their 2 . If the hurricane 3 happened during the day - time, there 4 have been many more death. That night was the worst one 5 history.
In the morning people found the world outside their houses completely __6 . Fifteen million trees had been 7 down by the high winds. Electricity lines as 8 as telephone poles were brought down. Many towns and villages had their water supply 9 off because there was 10 electricity. Many people had to use 11 .
It took 12 to clear all the roads and mend all the broken electricity lines and telephone lines. The army was called _ 13 __ to cut through fallen trees and to help to __ 14__ the roads and paths. They worked for long hours for several weeks before everything returned to 15 .
[Answers:]1. hit/ struck 2. lives 3. had 4.would 5. in 6. changed 7. blown 8. well 9. cut 10. no 11. lamps 12. weeks 13. in 14. clear 15. normal
Step Ⅵ Language points
1.up to 2.as well as
3.If +主语+had done, 主语+should/ would/could/ might + have done.
4．call in call at call…back call for
put down bring down blow down cut down