If you're driving a car during a wildfire, do your best to stay calm. You can increase your chances of survival by taking as many safety tips as possible and remaining as calm as you can.
Check social media and the news for any information about where the fire is and where it's heading.
Drive slowly and turn on your headlights and hazard lights（危险警示灯）.
Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth and turn up all the windows to protect yourself from the smoky air while you drive
Keep the radio on while driving. Keep listening to the radio for information about where the fir is heading. Check online and social media for updates on the fire if you have another person in you car. Is it growing in a new direction?
Pull over if you see flames getting closer. If your way becomes blocked（阻挡）or you can see the fire moving towards you, pull the car over to a safe area.
| A．Is there anyone injured? |
| B．Have the winds changed at all? |
| C．Keep a close watch on accidents |
| D．Keep an eye out for people or animals |
| E．Look for a parking lot to park your car in |
| F．Make your car easily seen in the smoky conditions. |
| G．Drive in the opposite direction from smoke or flames. |
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【推荐1】How to Quiet the Complainer
You may want to know why people complain. In fact, even the kindest, most considerate people complain. And complaining doesn’t always have a negative impact.
Change the subject.
Some complainers will switch the topic if you change the conversation in a direction that interests them. If your neighbor is complaining about the phone company, tell her about an unexpected call you received from an old friend.
Summarize the complaint.
If your complainer keeps repeating himself, ask something like, “Can I tell you that I’ve heard and gotten it?” Using “I” statements (“I’ve heard ...”) rather than “you” statements (“You keep repeating yourself”) shows that you’re interested rather than trying to shut the person down.
When a frequent complainer tells you about her latest problem, ask nicely what she’s done to improve it. This isn’t the usual direction a grievance-laden conversation takes, and it may help to abruptly end a rant.
Be honest.
Have a heart-to-heart.
If someone very close to you, like your partner or best friend stresses you out with loads of pessimism.
| A．Focus on the effect. |
| B．Challenge the person to act. |
| C．When you have things to do |
| D．Avoid saying the word complaining. |
| E．It’s important to talk about the problem. |
| F．Sometimes a complaint changes an unfavorable situation into a more desirable one. |
| G．If your coworker is saying bad words about your boss, ask whether he met the new employee. |
【推荐2】Have you ever found yourself saying “I’ll never do that again”, only to find yourself doing the exact same thing just a short time later?
Admit your mistakes.
Don’t blame anyone or anything else. Don’t try to hide your mistake or pretend it didn’t happen. Admitting mistakes does not make you look weak.
Ask yourself questions.
Even though you don’t want to face your mistakes, thinking about them carefully can be helpful. Ask yourself a few questions. What went wrong? What could I do better next time? What did I learn from this?
Make a plan.
Keeping feeling sorry for your mistakes won’t help you.
Sometimes people will point out your mistakes. Find someone who is wise and dependable and who is willing to listen to your explanations of what you’ve tried so far. If you can ask for advice from an expert, that couldn’t be better.
| A．Listen to other people. |
| B．If so, you’re not alone. |
| C．It actually makes you look strong. |
| D．Bad habits can lead to serious mistakes. |
| E．Consider your actions from an outsider’s view. |
| F．Write down your answers and you’ll see the situation more clearly. |
| G．It’s important to spend time thinking about how to do better in the future. |
【推荐3】Life is precious, and we only get one shot at it.
1.
If you spend a half to an hour poking around on your phone before getting out of bed, you are not making the most of your life. People who have a driving purpose in life don’t spend time lounging around on their phone in bed.
To someone with a purpose, waking up is a refreshing welcome to another day of hard yet meaningful work.
2. You don’t feel ready for bed at the end of each day.
People whose days are filled with purposeful activities feel tired at the end of the day. Whether it’s mental or physical work, purposeful activity uses up all your energy and leaves you ready to go to bed each day. When you aren’t making the most of your life, on the other hand, you aren’t tired at the end of the day.
3. You spend more of your time planning than doing.
If you spend more of your time daydreaming, planning or thinking about the future than you do working to bring about that future, you are not making the most of your life. People who make something of themselves pick a goal for the future and then work hard to make that goal happen.
Think about professional weightlifters. They spend a little bit of their time researching how to lift weights more effectively, and a lot of time lifting weights.
4. You worry about what others think of you.
High achievers may worry about what people who matter think of them, but they don’t worry about what their friends or pop culture thinks.
Instead of doing what others approve of, find a guiding purpose you can be true to even when the world turns against you.
| A．You find it a big deal to wake up. |
| B．You don’t get out of bed quickly upon waking. |
| C．They seldom communicate their plans to people around. |
| D．You are, quite literally, not making the most of your energy. |
| E．They are too busy getting things done to care about others’ opinions. |
| F．Someone daydreaming all the time isn’t spending all their time doing. |
| G．Are you merely passing the time instead of making the most of your one life? |
【推荐1】There have been fires in every Australian state, but New South Wales has been hardest hit. Fires have torn through bushland (丛林地), wooded areas, and national parks. Some start and are controlled in a few days, but the biggest fires have been burning for months.
Each year there is a fire season during the Australian summer, with hot, dry weather making it easy for fires to start and spread. Natural causes are responsible for fires most of the time, like lightning hits in drought-affected forests. Dry lightning was to blame for starting a number of fires in late December, which then traveled more than 20 kilometers in just five hours. Humans can also be responsible. Police have charged at least 24 people with starting bushfires on purpose, and have taken action against 183 people for setting fire since November.
Fire season in Australia is always dangerous -- the 2009 Black Saturday fires killed 173 people in Victoria, making it the deadliest bushfire disaster on record. But conditions have been unusually bad this year, making fires burn more strongly and making firefighting conditions particularly difficult. Australia is experiencing one of its worst droughts over the years. Meanwhile, a heatwave in December broke the record for highest nationwide average temperature, with some places under temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius. Strong winds have also made the fires and smoke spread more rapidly, and have led to deaths.
About half a billion animals have been affected by the fires across NSW, with millions likely dead -- and that's lower than what is probably the real number. That number of total animals influenced could be as high as one billion nationwide. Almost a third of koalas in NSW may have been killed in the fires, and a third of the places where they live have been destroyed.
Some species, like koalas, aren't in any immediate danger of extinction because they are spread out across the country. But others that live in more suitable environments with lower populations, including certain types of frogs and birds, could be destroyed entirely if their home is hit by the fires.
1. Fires in Australia _________.| A．may last a long time | B．often happen in spring |
| C．mainly happened in some states | D．are easily controlled in a few hours |
| A．spread rapidly | B．caused by humans |
| C．were put out by police | D．were due to wet weather |
| A．big fire | B．strong wind |
| C．serious drought | D．period of hot weather |
| A．Because they can run fast. |
| B．Because they live far and wide. |
| C．Because their home is well protected. |
| D．Because they have a lower population. |
【推荐2】Check out our tsunami facts and learn some interesting information related to these great walls of water that can cause so much destruction. Find out what causes tsunamis and read about some recent examples of tsunamis that have occurred around the globe.
The Japanese word for tsunami means harbor wave.
Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal (受潮汐影响的) waves but this term has fallen out of favor because tsunamis are not related to tides.
Tsunamis are huge waves of water that are usually caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
As a tsunami approaches the shore (海岸), water may move back from the coast. If it is shallow (浅的) enough the water may be pulled back hundreds of meters. If you are in the area, you can know that a tsunami is on the way when you see this phenomenon.
Regions in tsunami danger zones often have warning systems in place to give people as much time as possible to move to a safe place.
When tsunamis hit shallow water (often near the coast) they slow down but increase in height.
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries.
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people.
The tsunami waves created by the Tohoku earthquake reached heights of over 40 meters in some areas, wiping out coastal towns and causing a number of nuclear accidents.
1. How many causes of tsunamis are mentioned in the text?| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．the earthquake itself |
| B．the lack of warning systems |
| C．the tsunami caused by the earthquake |
| D．the nuclear accidents caused by the tsunami |
| A．The Japanese invented the term “tidal waves”. |
| B．The term “tidal waves” is used more often than tsunami. |
| C．When tsunamis slow down, their waves can reach 40 meters. |
| D．When hitting shallow water, tsunamis will rise higher. |
| A．listing some facts | B．giving some examples |
| C．providing some numbers | D．making some comparisons |
【推荐3】A baby saved his parents and himself from almost certain death in a landslide(泥石流) that buried about 120 people in Southwest China on Saturday morning, Chengdu Economic Daily reported. Xiao Yanchun and her husband, Qiao Dashuai, both 26, live in Xinmo village, Maoxian county, in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture(自治州) of Sichuan province. At about 5:40 am, their 38-day-old son was crying, so Xiao got up to change his diaper(尿布).
When she was about to go back to bed after taking care of her baby, she heard a strange sound outside the door and felt the earth quaking. Seeing stones, water and mud flooding into the room, she grabbed the baby and struggled to get out. She and her husband simply swarm through the moving mud as they attempted to get out, and were finally able to run to a safe area as the whole village was engulfed.
At about 9 am, the family was sent to Maoxian County People's Hospital. "Mud is all over our bodies," Xiao said. She said her baby had swallowed(吞下) some mud. The three remained in the hospital for treatment on Saturday evening, but their injuries are not life-threatening, the report said.
However, the fate of Xiao’s grandmother, parents and 3-year-old daughter, who were in a different house, is still unknown, according to media outlet The Paper.
1. What can be the best title for the news report?| A．Parents saved by their baby’s cries at dawn |
| B．Three survivors remain in the hospital for treatment |
| C．Xiao felt the earth shaking when landslide happened |
| D．Landslide buried about 120 people in Southwest China |
| A．Kept under control |
| B．Completely surrounded or covered |
| C．Separated into two or more parts |
| D．Disappeared below the surface of a mass of water |
| A．They simply swarm through the moving mud |
| B．They were helped to get out by other villagers |
| C．They went out before mud flooding into the room |
| D．They managed to get out before rocks blocked their way |
| A．Qiao Dashuai was badly injured in the landslide |
| B．The family was sent to hospital by their neighbours |
| C．Xiao’s 3-year-old daughter might have died in the landslide |
| D．Before looking after Xiao’s baby, the landslide had happened |
