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Bullet trains were flooded in a mountainous area. [originaltext] Typhoon Hagi
Bullet trains were flooded in a mountainous area. [originaltext] Typhoon Hagi
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2023-12-28
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Bullet trains were flooded in a mountainous area.
Typhoon Hagibis struck Japan with unusual force and wind speeds last week. The storm produced heavy rainfall and flooding in many areas. The water caused landslides as well as floods that left people trapped on building tops.
Newspapers and other media published images of bullet trains, known to Japanese as Shinkansen, that were flooded in Nagano, a mountainous area northwest of Tokyo. The pictures show the ability of natural disasters to slow down modern life.
Experts say periods of calm can cause a false sense of security in a country inured to danger by the threat of earthquakes, tsunami and volcanoes. "Weather conditions in Japan up to now have been relatively moderate," noted Toshitaka Katada, an expert on disasters and a professor at the University of Tokyo. Katada said Japan’s readiness for disasters is still based on information collected many years ago. "Damage gets multiplied when people are overly confident about their safety," he added.
Rescue efforts have continued in the days since the typhoon first struck land near Tokyo. Then the storm turned northward before moving over the Pacific Ocean and weakening.
The number of dead and missing continues to increase. At least 100 people have been injured in Nagano, Fukushima, Miyagi and other central and northern prefectures.
Flood waters caused damage to at least 10 Shinkansen trains, each with 12 cars, in Nagano, said an East Japan Railway Company official. Electronic equipment under the cars was likely totally wrecked, he added.
For years, scientists have warned about the move toward extreme weather, including intensifying ocean storms.
Some say the damage from landslides and flooding is a sign of the vulnerability of some Japanese communities. They say engineers never really thought about conditions like heavy rains when homes and public infrastructure were built.
Although scientists are doing better at predicting weather conditions, it is still difficult to find out the paths of storms and the damage they may bring. So says Chris Field, director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University in California.
"The message for typhoon-prone areas is that all should prepare for a future of stronger storms," Field said.
"It is important to understand and respond to the evidence that storms are getting stronger as a result of climate change and that investments in disaster prevention need to rise," he said.
Japan already is in crisis over its aging infrastructure. Governments lack the money and workers to repair and replace tunnels, bridges and other structures to meet new rules for resistance to earthquakes and other disasters.
Observers say there also is an urgent need to improve early warning systems and to help people move out of vulnerable areas, Field and other experts said.
Top officials gave clear and early warnings about the dangers of Typhoon Hagibis. They held an emergency press conference several days before the expected landfall.
"Please take measures to save your own life," Japan’s public broadcaster NHK announced.
But while warnings targeted areas with as many as several million people, far fewer—tens of thousands—acted on those warnings.
Japanese need to be more aware of disaster risks and to do more to prepare on their own instead of counting on the government to take care of them, experts said.
选项
A、正确
B、错误
答案
A
解析
原文说:Newspapers and other media published images of bullet trains,known to Japanese as Shinkansen,that were flooded in Nagano,a mountainous area northwest of Tokyo.也就是说,报纸和其他媒体刊登了新干线列车被水淹没的照片,因此,是正确的。
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