Extracurricular Reading – Summer 2021 Section B – Natural Disasters

This section contains 3 passages in total. All contents are from BBC News.

Information below may be out of date. All following passages are extracted for means of learning and reading only. 请注意，下方信息可能已过时。所有截取的文章仅作学习阅读之用。

BBC News – China – “It was hard to breathe”: China flood terror as train carriage submerged

This article seems to create an atmosphere of terror and amplify the impacts that the flood had on Zhengzhou. A few paragraphs have been deleted in order to make it appear more neutral and objective. 该文章试图营造一种恐怖气氛并过度夸大洪水对郑州的影响。为使其看起来更中立和客观，部分段落已被删除。

BBC News – Europe – Europe floods: Merkel shocked by “surreal” devastation

BBC News – Latin America – Haiti earthquake: Death toll climbs to 1,297 as storm nears