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Five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, recovery remains years away.
More than 16,000 people died in the disaster and more than 470,000 were removed from their homes, says the Japanese Red Cross Society. Over 2,500 people are still missing and predicted dead. After pressure from survivors, the Japanese Coast Guard began underwater searches for the missing.
In Fukushima, more than 100,000 families still cannot return home, says the Red Cross Society. This is because of radioactive pollution from the damaged Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
In Japan, the disaster is known as “3-1-1” , marking the date five years ago.
It was really three disasters rolled into one.
“It started with an earthquake devastating (毁灭) in itself, then the tsunami, and then the radiation from the nuclear plant,” said Shioko Goto, a Japan expert at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C..Goto said the disaster showed the world, “Japanese resilience (快速恢复的能力) and Japanese unity.”
But it also showed shortcomings. Among the most notable, the long time it took to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after it was flooded from the tsunami, Goto said. That process took eight months. Another, Japan’s dependence on nuclear power, she said. The disaster forced Japan to close all of its nuclear power plants, leaving parts of the country without electricity.
Goto offered up one major difference from the last major Japanese disaster, the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. In 2011, social media was everywhere, she said. Social media offered up plenty of “unfounded rumors and fear-mongering (制造恐慌),” Goto said.
But it also kept pressure on Japanese authorities to do more. Chikara Yoshida lost his only son, a 43-year-old volunteer fireman, on March 11, 2011. He and his daughter posted a petition (请愿书) on Facebook to restart underwater searches. It drew over 28,000 signatures, according to the Associated Press.
The Japanese Coast Guard announced that it would resume searches this week. There have also been complaints that reconstruction efforts in hard-hit northern Japanese communities have been too slow. This week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will respond.
25. The number of the people who died in the disaster is _______.
A. more than 18,500      B. over 16,000     
C. over 470,000           D. more than 2,500
26. What are the three disasters rolling into one?
A. Nuclear power, tsunami and earthquake.     
B. Flood, earthquake and tsunami.
C. Flood, tsunami and nuclear power.        
D. Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear radiation.
27. Which of the following statements is true?
A. In Fukushima, more than 10,000 families still cannot return home.
B. The disaster forced Japan to close most of its nuclear power plants.
C. Japanese authorities were forced to do more after the disaster.
D. Chikara Yoshida and his daughter posted a petition on the Associated Press.
28. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. the government can’t afford such a large sum of money in reconstruction efforts.
B. People complained reconstruction efforts in hard-hit northern Japanese communities have been too slow.
C. People in hard-hit northern communities have had a happy life since the disaster.
D. The government may take measures to promote reconstruction.
 
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A “match of the century” between human champion of the Chinese board game Go (围棋) and Google’s computer program kicked off in Seoul on Wednesday, which drew great attention.
The first game of the five-game match started at about 1 p.m. local time (0400 GMT) at Four Seasons Hotel in central Seoul. It will run through next Tuesday to determine the winner between South Korean Lee Sedol, the world Go champion in the past 10 years, and AlphaGo, developed by Google’s London-based subsidiary DeepMind.
The match of the century drew great attention from news organizations, Go fans and the general public across the world as well as in South Korea as it is seen as a representative match between humans and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Korea Baduk Association, a body for South Korean Go professionals, had received advance applications for an explanatory event of the match, but the limit of 60 seats had already surpassed.
South Korea’s public broadcaster KBS plans to broadcast live the match from 12:40 to 5 p.m., extending its initial plan to air it for two hours from 3 p.m. due to great interests from the general public. It is unusual for the public broadcaster to broadcast live the Go game for more than four hours.
Cable channel TV Chosun will broadcast the match’s development every 10 minutes on Wednesday and Thursday, while planning to air live the whole matches on Saturday and Sunday.
The match is being aired live through YouTube around the world, while various Internet websites and TVs are broadcasting the landmark match.
Hundreds of journalists from around the world gathered at the stadium to report on the match between Lee and AlphaGo.
AlphaGo took the world by surprise as it defeated European Go champion Fan Hui in October last year. Some experts had predicted it would take decades of years for AI to defeat humans at the ancient Chinese board game.
Go, which originated in China more than 2,500 years ago, has been viewed as a grand challenge for AI due to its complexity and intuitive nature. It involves two players, who take turns putting markers (围棋子) on a grid-shaped board to gain more areas on it. One can occupy the markers of the opponent by surrounding the pieces of the other.
 
29. What does the underlined phrase “kicked off” mean?
A. Started.      B. Stayed.      C. Closed.     D. Finished.
30. Why did the match draw so much attention in the world?
A. Because the match was the first one between humans and AlphaGo.
B. Because it is seen as a representative match between humans and AI.
C. Because it would take decades for AI to defeat humans in Go games.
D. Because many TVs broadcast live the game.
31. The following statements are true except _______.
A. there are five matches between South Korean Lee Sedol and AlphaGo
B. it’s surprising that the European Go champion was defeated by AlphaGo
C. Go has a history of more than 2,500 years in China
D. cable channel TV Chosun will broadcast all the five games
32. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Report competition from all over the world become fierce in Go games
B. Human Go champion will defeat Google’s AI AlphaGo in Go games
C. Go match between human champion and Google’s AI draws wide attention
D. Humans challenge artificial intelligence
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