A 7.0 magnitude(級)earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.
The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast.   1 It’s not. The problem is what’s happening above ground, not underground, experts say.
  2 They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes, scientists believe.
And news reports and better earthquake monitoring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.
On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakes—more than in most years for that time period. But that’s because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a large number of strong aftershocks.
Also, it’s not the number of quakes, but their destructive effects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards,   3  Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the world’s big cities.
Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes.   4 “If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes,” said Paul.
The earthquakes made everyone start to think   5  “People are paying attention to the violent planet we’re always lived on. Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again,” said US disaster researcher Dennis Mileti.
A.But it won’t last.
B.More people are moving into big cities.
C.Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.
D.There have been more deaths overt the past decade from earthquakes.
E.Many people began to wonder if something terrible is happening underground.
F.While it seems as if the are more earthquakes occurring, there really aren’t.
G.But developing nations with growing populations don’t pay attention to earthquake preparedness.

小題1:E
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:G
小題5:A
文章講述的是頻頻發(fā)生的地震的原因以及人們對此的思考和存在的問題。
小題1:根據(jù)后面的It's not?芍,此處應(yīng)當(dāng)是一個關(guān)于地震方面的問題。故選擇E,人們在問是否地下出了什么嚴(yán)重的問題
小題2:根據(jù)They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes可知,此處的they指的是人,對應(yīng)的就是B選項(xiàng)中的涌入城市的人們。
小題3:根據(jù) The death is largely due to building standards可知,地震中死亡的人是由于建筑物的原因,對應(yīng)的是C中的buildings do。
小題4:根據(jù)If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes可知,如果溫飽問題沒有解決,他們不會考慮地震問題,對應(yīng)的G中的發(fā)展中國家不注意地震的預(yù)防。
小題5:根據(jù)Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again可知,人們經(jīng)常忘記地震這個教訓(xùn),所以選擇A,人們對地震的思考不會持續(xù)(很久)
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