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    Hundreds of thousands of residents in Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and Russia's Kamchatka were told to evacuate after one of the world’s strongest quakes in a century hit Chile on Saturday, killing more than 300 people. Japanese officials had warned that tsunami waves of 3 meters or more could strike the country’s Pacific coast and ordered or advised around 630,000 households to evacuate. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) put the country’s highest tsunami at 1.2 meters in the port of Kuji, northeast Japan. Smaller waves hit a swathe of the country from the small island of Minaraitori 1,950 km (1,200 piles) south of Tokyo to Hokkaido island in the north. The JMA later downgraded its warning of a “major tsunami”to a tsunami of around 2 meters, but said residents should not let down their guard. “Carelessness could be the biggest enemy,” Preme Minister Yukio Hatoyama told reports earlier in the day. It was Japan’s first major tsunami warning in 17 years and only the fourth since 1952, the JMA said. Train services were halted in many areas along the Pacific coast, many highways were closed and there was minor flooding. Two nuclear plants in the area were operating normally and Japan’s Nippon Oil Corp said its 145,000 barrel-per-day Sendai refinery was also functioning as usual. Police cars and fire trucks patrolled coasul roads and fishing boats, seeking to avoid any tsunami, headed out to sea under gray skies, with snow flurries in some areas. Japan is no stranger to tsunamis. In 1896, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake and tsunami left more than 22,000 dead in northeastern Japan. Another of magnitude 8.1 hit the same region in 1933, killing 3,064. In May 1960, a tsunami struck the coasts of Hokkaido aod other northern Pacific coastal areas after an earthquake in Chile, killing around 140 people. Since then, many harbors have had sea gates installed to try to protect from tsunami and stonns. The first waves to hit New Zealand were reported at the remote Chatham Islands, around 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand, with surges of up to 1.5 meters measured, the Civil Defense Ministry said. Authorities in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka region lifted a tsunami alert after a series of small waves appealed to cause do damage, a spokeswoman forthe Emergencies Ministry said. A tsunami hit beaches in eastern Australia but there were no initial reports of damage. Officials issued an alert for most of the east coast and eastern parts of the island state of Tasmania, but said there were no concerns about major inundation. The Philippines canceled a tsunami alert on the eastern seaboard after the threat dissipated. Hawaii dodged serious damage on Saturday when a tsunami merely lapped asbore, although residents were warned to stay away from coastai areas because the ocean could remain unsettled for several more hours.

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My View on Energy Crisis

    Silver miners first discovered Mexico’s surreal Cave of Crystals almost a decade ago. The BBC recently took a rare tour of the underground cavern that contains the world’s largest naturally grown crystals, where some selenite structures reach almost 33 feet in length.

     See those little dots climbing the crystals that look like ants? Those are people.

     Casual spclankers can’t enter the cave without risking their lives, unless they have the right breathing mask and cooling suit. Stifling temperatures of 122 degrees F combined with almost 100 percent humidity posed a deadly challenge for early explorers. Such conditions mean that every breath can lead to fluid condensing inside the lungs, which represents a less-than-ideal scenario for continued breathing.

    But the cave’s wonders prove alluring once you get past the dangers. The BBC’s new scries “How the Earth Made Us” accompanies Iain Stewart, a geologist at the University of Plymouth in the UK, on a trip into the Naica silver mine.

   Take a good look at the footage below, because the Cave of Crystals is destined to disappear once the mine owners decide to end operations and pull out their pumps. Then the mines and cave alike will flood once more.

Life is a continuous flow of experience; each act or moment of time is preceded by a previous experience and becomes the threshold for the experience to come. If we acknowledge chat an objective of life is the achievement of a continuous flow of harmonious experiences, then the relationship of spaces to one another, as experienced over time, becomes a major design problem. When viewed in this way, architecture takes its place with the aits of poetry and music, in which no single part can be considered except in relation to what immediately precedes or follows it.

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1、鲸鱼是海洋中一种巨大的哺乳动物。

2、假如有机会，我会整天都看书。

3、汤姆，你整理电线在行吗?

4、他的行为只能让我更讨厌他。

5、他最新的书反映了中国的传统思想，这也代表了他大部分作品的特点。

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     Perhaps more imprtant than the lack of family outings is the destruction of family time(31)at home. Social scientists in the 1950s could not have (32) how much television would watch in the 1980s; the (33) American watches 6 hours of TV a day. That (34) little time for the special family characteristics and traditions that(35)to be formed during long evenings together. The time (36) to games, songs, and hobbies—all shared activities—in the(37)before TV is now dominated by the “tube”. And (38) damaging to family relationships is the elimination of the(39)for talking, chatting, arguing, discussing. Without such (40), family life disintegrates.

The trees______in spring.

They’ve been sponswing the World Cup______over a million and a half pounds.

The chef is_______vegetarian diets.

Please_______this collection of money for homeless families.

A writer has to______his imagination and experience.