4单元50页 Reading and Thinking

reading and thinking.

two look at the title and photo below and guess what the text is about,then read and check if you are right.

the night the earth didn't sleep. 

strange things were happening in the countryside of northern her be I.for several days,the water in the village wells rose and fell. rose and fell.there were deep cracks that appeared in the well walls. at least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it.chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat,and dogs refused to go inside buildings.mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide and fish jumped out of the water. at about three am on the July 28 th nineteen seventy six,bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of tang SAN.and loud noises were heard.but the city's one million people were asleep as usual that night. at three forty two am,everything began to shake. it seemed as if the world were coming to an end.eleven kilometers directly below the city,one of the most deadly earthquakes of the twentieth century had begun. a quake that even caused damage more than a hundred and fifty kilometres away in Beijing.nearly one third of the whole nation felt it.a huge crack,eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses,roads and waterways. hard hills of Rock became rivers of dirt.in less than one minute,a large city lay in ruins.two thirds of the people who lived there were dead or injured. thousands of children were left without parents,the number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than four.hundred thousand.everywhere,survivors looked,there was nothing but ruins. nearly everything in the city was destroyed.about seventy five percent of the city's factories and buildings,ninety percent of its homes and all of its hospitals were gone. bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves,but no wind could blow them away.most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross the railway. tracks were now useless. pieces of metal.tens of thousands of cows,hundreds of thousands of pigs and millions of chickens were dead.s and now filled the wells instead of water,people were in shock and then later that afternoon. another big quake shook tung shin again.even more buildings fell down.water,food and electricity were hard to get.people began to wonder how long the disaster would last.but hope was not lost. soon after the quakes,the army sent a hundred and fifty thousand soldiers to tang shen to dig out those who were trapped ow.and to bury the dead.more than ten thousand doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.hundreds of thousands of people were helped water and food were brought into the city by train truck and plain.slowly,the city began to breathe again. tung shin started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.with strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city's people,a new tongue shen was built upon the earth quake ruins. the new city has become a home to more than seven million people with great improvements in transportation industry and environment. tung shin city has proved to China and the rest of the world that in times of disaster,people must unify.and show the wisdom to stay positive and rebuild for a brighter future.


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