Tom had lived in Palo Alto and been alive during     1     earthquake.Nothing much happened     2     him or his home on that day.     3     ，a few months later, a traffic accident made him     4     (lose) his life.

After Tom died，his wife came to his car he hadn’t used for some months.When she began to clean it out she noticed first that the front seat     5     (equip) so that it could flatten backwards.Then she noticed that the back seat had been rigged(装配)so it would pop out     6     (easy) to make you climb into the trunk(行李箱）.     7     (open) the trunk she found old clothes,bottles of water and two hundred     8     (foot) of rope.It seemed that,     9     he was not a man planning for the future, Tom was at least prepared for being trapped in an earthquake.In fact, we should learn from     10     (care) Tom.Everyone should prepare for something in case some accidents such as fires and earthquakes happen suddenly.

On Thursday, April 14, 2019, an earthquake shocked the people of Japan’s Kyushu Island. The quake,     1     hit the town of Ueki, in the Kumamoto Prefecture, happened just before 9:30 pm local time. It resulted in 9     2     (die) and over 850 injuries. About 4,000 people were made homeless. Many smaller aftershock (余震) followed and most experts believed that the worst was over.     3    , they were wrong. On April 16 at 1:25 am local time,     4     even bigger earthquake rocked the Kumamoto Prefecture. To make matters worse, the area was hit by a heavy rain, which even caused     5     (extreme) serious mudslides (泥石流).

While people worldwide were still shocked by the events, the news of another even     6     powerful earthquake came in Ecuador, South America. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Muisne, a coastal town at about 7:00 pm local time on Saturday, April 16. It killed at least 350 people and over 2,000 got     7     (injury). In a short period, the town     8     (lie) in ruins.

With rescue teams in both Japan and Ecuador looking for survivors who were trapped in the buildings, experts were trying to determine whether or not there were any connection     9     the two earthquakes. Meanwhile, people of both nations were now trying their best     10     (recover) from natural disasters, hoping that the earth beneath them didn’t shake.

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For 300 years, the Slims River had been flowing through Canada’s Yukon region. But in 2016, in only four days, the water in the big river reduced sharply,     1     made the river almost disappear. What happened?

After a year of careful studies, a group of       2    (scientist) said that the sudden change of the river     3    (cause) by climate change.

The Slims River used       4    (be)a big river, reaching up to 150 meters at its     5    (wide) points. It carried meltwater (冰雪融水) from the huge Kaskawulsh glacier into the Kluane River, then into     6     Yukon River toward the Bering Sea.

But in spring 2016, there was a sharp melting of the Kaskawulsh glacier because     7     climate change. It redirected the meltwater into a second river, the Alsek River. then into the Gulf of Alaska.

In geography, this is called “river piracy”,     8    (mean) the flow of one river is 7     9    (sudden) taken away into another. Although it was not unusual in ancient times, this is the first time that it     10    (happen) under scientists’ noses in modern times.

We recognize our friends’ faces. And we are not alone. Many social animals can also identify individuals of their own species by their facial    1    (feature), because they need to adjust their behavior    2    (depend) on who they meet. And a research has shown that some domesticated (驯养的) animals can even distinguish among different faces in photographs.

Researchers first    3    (teach) horses to “choose” between two side-by-side images on a computer screen. Then the horses that were shown photos of their keeper alongside faces of    4    (familiar) humans ignored the strangers’ faces, identifying    5    (correct) their keeper about 75% of the time. What’s more, the horses also preferentially picked photos of their previous keeper. And they    6    (be) at least as accurate in picking out their previous keeper    7    they were at identifying their current one.

In addition, horses seem to have    8    strong long-term memory for human faces, consistent with their long lifespan and history of domestication. In future experiments, the researchers may test whether looking at photos of people that they have had bad experiences with in the past might cause horses    9    (act) anxiously. So maybe think twice before doing anything    10    might give a horse a long face.