7. Many people moved to the (城市的) areas for jobs.

6. They will be (稍稍) more expensive but they last a lot longer.

5. The (问答比赛) will be a team event organised by the local school.

4. Asia and Africa are the two biggest (洲) 

3. They said goodbye to him as he got a the train at Union Station.

2. B refers to the cases,bags,boxes,etc. carried by someone who is travelling.

1. They stopped at the top of the hill to admire the s.

用适当的连接词填空。

    The following are comments by a resident （居民) ,a fire officer and a climate expert about a recent flood.

   Resident：Nobody thought 1. flooding this bad would happen again,but as the river level rose,we had to face the fact 2. ,  we,d have to leave our homes. Personally,I think fire officers should be held wholly responsible. 3.  it has been raining heavily here for five days should have warned them that a flood was coming. They should have been better prepared to help us.

   Fire officer: I don't think 4. many residents said is fair. Today is a public holiday. This is 5. many of our staff weren’ t here to help with the rescue. However,we warned residents yesterday 6. they might have to leave their houses with little notice. However,7.made the evacuation(疏散) difficult was that they wanted to take large amounts of personal belongings with them. I have no idea 8. residents just think it's all our fire officers’ fault.

    Climate expert: We hold the belief 9.climate change is going to increase the risk of flooding,and a number of studies have suggested10. winter river levels throughout

the country will be much higher than in the past. Unfortunately,the situation in this area is worsened by the fact 11. so many trees have been cut down on the hills around here and rainwater flows more quickly into the rivers. So there's a real possibility 12. serious flooding could now happen here every winter.

同位语从句通常由that引导,that不在从句 中充当成分，一般不能省略同位语从句也可以由 ，whether,where,why等引导。

[语境展不]阅读下面句子，并试着归纳measure的意思及用法。

1. We measured the room and found it was 20 feet long and 15 feet wide.

2. It's hard to measure his ability when we haven’t seen his work.

3. The tablecloth measures 18 by 20 feet.

4. The metre is a measure of length.

5. We must take measures to protect the local water supplies.

[自我归纳]measure既可作动词，也可作名词。

★作及物动词时，意为:① (句1) ;②衡量，判定(句2) 。作不 及物动时，意为“(指尺寸、长短、数量等) 量度为”(句3) 。

★作名词时，意为:①计量单位(句4) ;②措施(常用于take measures to do sth.结构) (句 5) 。

[即学即练]翻译下面句子。

1.政府已答应采取措施援助那些人

2. 小时是时间.的量度单位。

3. 那棵老树从地面到树梢至少有30米。