2. at risk 在危险中 不系安全带真的会有危险. at the risk of 冒 … 危险 他冒着生命危险到那儿 You are at risk if you don’t wear a seat belt. He went there at the risk of his life Risk n. 风险, 危险 at one’s own risk 自担风险 在此处游泳者如有意外责任自负. People swimming here are at their own risk.

3. fortunate adj. 幸运的 Think of others less fortunate than yourselves. 想想其他不如你们幸运的人。 unfortunate adv. 不幸的是，不巧的是 Unfortunately, you were out when we called.

5. 电影院去年被烧毁了. 他在事故中严重受伤, 头发也被烧掉了. 引擎被烧坏了. The cinema burnt down last year. He was badly injured in the accident,and all his hair was burnt off. The engine had burnt out.

6. make one’s way( to/ towards) 向某地走去, 她快速离开房间, 朝她床边走去. make way (for) 让路, 让位 所有的车辆都得给救火车让路. 我将把职务让给更年轻的人. She left the room in a hurry,and made her way to her bed. All the traffic has to make way for a fire engine. I shall make way for a younger man.

7. 1.Are you _____ with my story? A. bore B. to bore C. boring D. bored 2. There is no ______ standard for beauty. A. right B. wrong C. absolute D. absolutely 3. There are so many people that he has to _____ his way through them. A. force B. make C. take D. get

8. 4. People who do not smoke have less ____ of suffering from lung cancer than those who do. A. cause B. choice C. potential D. hope 5. _____ other good students, the teacher thinks, Hank is ___ student. Compared to; a most satisfied Comparing to; the most satisfied Comparing with; the satisfying Compared with; a more satisfying

9. 1.I went to a tea house with tow friends last weekend but all they talked about was volcanoes. I was so _____ that I fell asleep. 2.A tourist very foolishly took a risk by walking right to the edge of an active_________. 3.I carefully ________ over the fallen rocks and returned to the car. 4.Nothing can ______ the experience of standing close to an active volcano for the first time. 5.Can volcanologists predict when a volcano will_______. 6.The sight of hot lava entering the sea at dawn was________. bored volcano made my way compare with erupt impressive

10. Mount Vesuvius Ɠ This mountain has erupted more than 50 times since the eruption in 79 A.D., when it buried Pompeii and its sister city, Herculaneum. Ɠ After Pompeii was buried and lost to history, the volcano continued to erupt every 100 years until about 1037 A.D., when it entered a 600-year period of quiescence. Ʊ In 1631, the volcano killed an additional 4000 unsuspecting inhabitants.

11. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD took people in Pompeii by surprise. It was so quick and so severe that the town soon covered in _______ and _________. Many houses in the town were ________. It was an ________ disaster for many people who could not get away in time. A writer named Pliny, who was there during the ______, described how lava was thrown into the air like a ________. _______ many of the townspeople, _________at the _________ sight of Vesuvius eruption, stayed too long and failed to escape in time. burnt to the ground absolute ash lava eruption fountain unfortunately amazed fantastic