【推荐2】语法填空：请阅读短文，并在空白处填写适当词语（1词）或用所给单词的适当形式填空（最多3词）。

Earthquakes are quite common. In fact, thousands of earthquakes     1    (happen) almost at every moment.     2    , most of them are too weak to feel. During a big earthquake, there is often a big noise first. Then the earth shakes     3     (terrible) and many houses fall down.

As one of the most deadly natural disasters in the world, the earthquake often result    4    many people being injured or killed. In 2008, a severe earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province,     5    (kill) more than 80,000 people there.

Besides the great damage and     6    (death) caused by the earthquake, other accidents such     7    fires often follow. More buildings may be damaged and more     8    (injury) may be caused. For centuries, people have been making studies of earthquakes. About 2,000 years ago, for example, a Chinese scientist     9    (name) Zhang Heng invented a machine which could find out the direction    10     the earthquake waves came.

【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Most of us know to stay low to the floor if we are caught in a fire, or head to the basement if a tornado’s coming, or board up the window in a hurricane. But, the massive earthquake that hit Haiti this month was a reminder that we are far     1     (expert) in what to do when the ground below us shakes. If we are in a house or building, for example, our first impulse might be to run outside— but, counter-intuitive (违反直觉的)     2     it might sound, experts warn against that since people are too often killed by falling debris as they try to escape.

Given how many of us travel in quake-prone regions today, even folks     3     don’t reside in California should know how to survive an earthquake. But there are two different and     4     (compete) schools of thought on the matter, both of which are considered valid but perhaps not always in the same situations.

The most conventional and widely accepted by the disaster-response community, is the “drop, cover and hold on” approach,     5     urges people to take cover beneath something like a heavy table     6     (avoid) falling objects. The second, newer method is known as “the triangle of life.” It recommends lying down in a fetal (胎儿的) position not under but next to furniture, as roofs and wall collapse atop those sofas and desks, buffer spaces are created that protect people from     7     (crush).

Over the past decade, an agreement has been reached     8     “drop, cover and hold on” is a more appropriate method for developed countries like the U. S, where improved construction     9     (reduce) the likelihood of structures collapsing greatly. The triangle of life is thought to be more appropriate in developing nations like Haiti, where poor building codes make finding a “survivable void” inside a collapsed building more important than protecting yourself from falling chandeliers. If you’re going to play the odds, drip-and-cover     10     be the best way to go, but a lot of emergency re-sponders might say triangle-of-life because they are the ones who see the fatalities in buildings that do collapse.