首页
登录
职称英语
A massive earthquake struck Haiti just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, about 10 mi
A massive earthquake struck Haiti just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, about 10 mi
游客
2024-10-13
0
管理
问题
A massive earthquake struck Haiti just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. The quake was the worst in the region in more than 200 years. Apreliminary assessment from Haiti’s government put the body count at 150,000 on Jan. 23.
"I don’t think we will ever know what the death toll is from this earthquake," said Edmond Mulet, the newly appointed head of United Nations operations in Haiti. "People are burying bodies by themselves, many have been thrown into dumps outside the city and an untold number still lie under the rubble."
The day after the quake, Haiti’s president, Rene Preval, called the destruction "unimaginable." The quake left the country in shambles, without electricity or phone service. Haiti’s shaky infrastructure before the quake meant aid efforts faced steep obstacles. With little food and water to be had, thousands of residents of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where the destruction was centered, fled the city to seek refuge with relatives in the countryside.
Despite scattered looting, the city remained relatively calm, but there was little evidence that the central government was able to function. Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, on Jan. 18 requested that another 3,500 peacekeepers be sent to Haiti to assist in delivering aid and prevent violence. The United States ordered the deployment of 5,000 troops to assist in the relief effort.
The earthquake could be felt across the border in the Dominican Republic, on the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola. High-rise buildings in the capital, Santo Domingo, shook and sent people streaming down stairways into the streets, fearing that the tremor could intensify.
Huge swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid offices and shantytowns. Schools, hospitals and a prison collapsed. Sixteen United Nations peac-ekeepers were killed and at least 140 United Nations workers were missing, including the chief of its mission, Hedi Annabi. The city’s archbishop, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, was found dead in the rubble of the Port-au-Prince cathedral.
Survivors squatted in the streets, some hurt and bloody, many more without food and water, close to piles of covered corpses and rubble. Limbs protruded from disi- ntegrated concrete, muffled cries emanated from deep inside the wrecks of buildings — many of them poorly constructed in the first place. Ten days after the quake, the number of survivors pulled from the rubble stood at 121 as hopes of finding more dwindled. A large aftershock on the morning of Jan. 20, which had a magnitude of 6.1, was centered on Gressier, a village west of Port-au-Prince. As the most powerful tremor to hit Haiti since the initial earthquake on Jan. 12, it caused some additional damage to the ravaged capital and surrounding areas. [br] According to the last paragraph, is there a chance to find more survivors from the rubble?
选项
A、Absolutely yes.
B、Not much.
C、No chance at all.
D、Not mentioned.
答案
B
解析
细节题。此题其实是考查对文中“as hopes of finding more dwindled”一句的理解,dwindle一词已经表明希望不大。选项A和C都过于绝对,不是最佳选项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3799691.html
相关试题推荐
Alltheschools______becauseoftheearthquake,studentsandteachershadtog
Thegrandbuildingwas______toruinsinonenightbecauseoftheearthquake.A、re
Idon’trecollect______hercryinpublicbefore.A、toseeB、havingseenC、towa
Itwasdarkinthecavesoshe______amatch.A、struckB、hitC、firedD、burnedA惯
Mybossorderedthatthelegaldocuments___tohimbeforelunch.A、besentB、were
Theearthquakeof26thDecember2004resultedinoneoftheworstnaturald
Theearthquakeof26thDecember2004resultedinoneoftheworstnaturald
Theearthquakeof26thDecember2004resultedinoneoftheworstnaturald
Theearthquakeof26thDecember2004resultedinoneoftheworstnaturald
Theearthquakeof26thDecember2004resultedinoneoftheworstnaturald
随机试题
(1)Ittookmeadecadetorealizethattheworldhasnoshortageoffashion
[originaltext]EachdayeverypersonintheUntiedStatesthrowsawaymoret
Inrecentyears,wehaveallwatchedtheincreasingcommercializationofthe
唐三彩是中国古代陶瓷烧制工艺的珍品,体现了陶瓷工艺在唐朝的一次发展,人们习惯称之
患者女性,20岁,双下肢挤压伤。急诊人手术室后出现神志模糊,皮肤苍白,四肢软弱无
《中华人民共和国药典》最早的版本是A.1949年 B.1960年 C.195
(2020年真题)某二级耐火等级的4层制衣厂房,矩形平面,长100m,宽40m,
净资本是指证券公司在净资产的基础上对资产负债等项目和有关业务进行()后得出的综
导致上大学的机会成本上升的因素是()。A.高中毕业生的市场工资水平上涨 B
下列施工进度控制工作中,属于监理工程师工作的是()。A.编制单位工程施工进度计
最新回复
(
0
)