Question

某英文報開辦“回顧”專欄。報社請你對1998年夏季的特大洪災進行簡要評述。詞數100左右（第一句已給出,不計入總詞數） 性 質 1．本世紀最嚴重的一次 2．損失嚴重（舉例：農田、房屋、災民） 原   因 1．連月降雨 2．濫伐林木，水土流失 3．圍湖造田，堵塞河道 防 范 措 施 1．保護沿河植被 2．改建堤壩 3．退田還湖 參考詞匯：loss: 損失 block: 堵塞 waterways: 河道 In the summer of 1998, big floods happened in both the south and north of China. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Answer 1

In the summer of 1998, big floods happened in both the south and north of China. They were the most serious ones in this century. They caused great losses. Fields were damaged; houses were washed away and many people became homeless.

　 There are three causes for the floods. First it had kept raining for months. Second many forests had been cut down and the soil was washed away. Finally, some lakes had been turned into fields, which seriously blocked the waterways

Now, some measures have been taken to prevent floods from happening again. The trees along the river have been protected; old dams have been rebuilt and some fields have been turned into lakes again.

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