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The US.government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map.This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country.The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake“belt”.The government is,spending a great deal money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions：

1.?Can we predict earthquake？

2.?Can we control earthquakes？

美國政府最近出版了一張地圖，幫助人們更多地了解地震的危險。這張地圖顯示了這個國家每一個地區(qū)發(fā)生地震的可能性。地圖上最有可能發(fā)生地震的地區(qū)被稱為地震“帶”。政府花費了大量的金錢，并且正在努力尋找以下兩個問題的答案：

1、我們能預(yù)測地震嗎？

2、我們能控制地震嗎？

重點單詞：

government/?ɡ?v?nm?nt/

n.政府；政體

earthquake/???θkwe?k/

n.地震

publish/?p?bl??/

v.出版；發(fā)表

chance/t?ɑ?ns/

n.機會；運氣

v.偶然發(fā)生；碰巧

discover/d??sk?v?(r)/

v.發(fā)現(xiàn)；發(fā)覺

predict/pr??d?kt/

v.預(yù)言，預(yù)知

control/k?n?tr??l/

n.控制；管理

vt.控制；管理