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xx年职称英语考试真题之综合类 Humans areforever forgettingthat theycant controlnature.Exactly20years ago,a Timemagazine coverstory announcedthat scientistsare onthe vergeof beingable topredict thetime,place andeven thesize ofearthquakes.The peopleof quake-ravaged被地震破坏的Kobe learnedlast weekhow wrongthat assertionwas. None ofthe methodsconceived twodecades agohas yetto discovera uniformwanting signalthat precededall quakes,let aloneany signthat would___whether theing temblor地震is mildor akiller.Earthquake formationcan betriggered bymany factors,says HirooKanamori,a seismologist地震学家,at theCalifornia Instituteof Technology.So,finding oneall-purpose warningsign isimpossible.One reason:Quakes tartdeep inthe earth,so scientistscant studythem directly.If aquake precursorwere found,it wouldstill beimpossible toward humansin advanceof alldangerous quakes.Places likeJapan andCalifornia arefiddle withhundreds,if...。