English Through Reading for EFL Learners
INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 4
11. Still, with or without a warning, the next Big One, when it comes, will still do enormous
damage. It's something that we Californians just live with.
WORDS
Survey: study
- prediction: talking about the future
- strike: hit, happen
- vulnerable: at risk
-
unlikely: improbable -
withstand: resist
- monitored: watched -
seismograph: apparatus that
detects movements in the ground
- training: instruction
- downtown: central
- shift: move
- to
creep: move slowly -
out of kilter: not
in a straight line - curb: edge of
the road - inexorable :
unstoppable, inevitable
- drift: movement -
two inches: about 5 cm.
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