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Two sisters in Colombia who were separated as children by an avalanche 30 years ago have been reunited. Jaqueline and Lorena Sanchez thought they had lost each other forever in 1985 when the Tolima volcano erupted near their town of Armero. The hot, molten lava from the volcano melted nearby glaciers and caused four massive mudslides. These killed more than 20,000 of Armero's 29,000 inhabitants. Jaqueline, 33, and Lorena, 39, never found each other in the chaos that followed the disaster. They each assumed the other was among the deceased. Armero was the second most deadly volcanic disaster of the 20th century. Only the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee in the Caribbean was deadlier.

The two sisters were adopted by different families and never knew each other's fate. They have both spent much of the past few decades looking for each other. They were reunited when DNA tests they gave to an organization that helped victims of the avalanches matched. Lorena told reporters: "It was beautiful and sad because it has been 30 years since the tragedy happened that I've come to find out what happened to my sister. I have to catch up with 30 years of her life and she has to do the same with me." Jaqueline said: "I'm excited, nervous, everything because suddenly, you don't know if you are going to be rejected.I wonder if she will love me. It's difficult. It's difficult to explain this moment."

中文翻译

三十年前，两姐妹在暴风雪中失散，如今这对哥伦比亚姐妹终团聚k1~;NqRYhviCA,;Uxlmb。1985年，阿尔梅罗小镇附近的托利马火山爆发，杰奎琳和罗雷娜本以为永不会相见c*W~RBu~y!YwLIMJ。熊熊岩浆融化了附近冰川，并引发四次大规模泥石流4&3[)6jq1N2。阿尔梅罗镇原有居民2.9万人，超过2万人丧生y@5~_M]nEAae。灾难过后，33岁的杰奎琳和39岁的罗雷娜并没有寻找对方-V#=T5Dn;&b0k。均认为对方在灾难中遇难k5dJUvB;lt。此次喷发也是20世纪第二大火山灾难0DqUsfCbG+。20世纪最惨重火山灾难要追述到1902年的培雷火山5(qWD)SUa@P!TB。

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重点讲解

1.find out 查明

例句：I'll find out her secret.

我要弄清她的秘密24Fes!U&ZvzNk64。

2.happen to 发生

例句：Please tell me if anything happened to him.

请告诉我他是不是遭到了什么意外?

3.catch up with 赶超

例句：We'll do our best to catch up with the advanced world levels.

我们将努力赶上世界先进水平nuG)!#kP(8+rEc7。

4.look for 寻找

例句：He began to look for a new job immediately after he was fired.

他被解雇后立即开始寻找一份新工作Ith7D2S0GVD。

听力题目

1.In what year were the two sisters separated?

a) 1993

b) 2000

c) 1930

d) 1985

2.What is the name of the volcano that erupted?

a) Sanchez

b) Tolima

c) Glacier

d) Armero

3.How many people originally lived in the town?

a) 200,000

b) 290,000

c) 29,000

d) 20,000

4.How old is Lorena now?

a) 39

b) 36

c) 33

d) 30

5.When was the deadliest volcanic disaster of the 20th century?

a) 1922

b) 1920

c) 1902

d) 1929

6.Who were the sisters adopted by?

a) their aunt

b) different families

c) an organization

d) the town

7.What kind of tests helped to reunite them?

a) fitness tests

b) IQ tests

c) personality tests

d) DNA tests

8.What do the sisters have to catch up with?

a) each other's lives

b) technology

c) the 21st century

d) the town

9.What is Jacqueline worried about?

a) money

b) the future

c) being rejected

d) another volcano

10.What did Jacqueline say was difficult to explain?

a) the past 30 years

b) this moment

c) the avalanche

d) her sister

听力答案

1.d

2.b

3.c

4.a

5.c

6.b

7.d

8.a

9.c

10.b