Shanghai is most Vulnerable to Flooding

时间:2022-09-10 07:52:09

Shanghai is deemed to be the most vulnerable city to the (A) r of serious flooding, a global study suggests.

Despite its economic (1) w , the Chinese city Shanghai was considered to be more exposed to the risk of flooding than much poorer cities, such as Dhaka. As well as considering a city's physical attributes, the study also considers social and economic (2) f when rating an area's vulnerability.

Details of the research appear in the (B) j Natural Hazards.

A team of scientists from the UK and the Netherlands has developed a Coastal City Flood Vulnerability Index (CCFVI), based on exposure, susceptibility and resilience to coastal (C) f . Co-author Nigel Wright, from the University of Leeds' School of Civil Engineering, said that current methods tended to be two dimensional.

"Very often we look at these sorts of things in a very deterministic way." Prof Wright explained, "We look at physical (3) e , so if you live by a river you are exposed to the risk of flooding."

Prof Wright said that the CCFVI used a (4) r of data, consisting of 19 components.

"We still use the physical ones but also economic and social ones, such as how much (D) a is given by local or national governments to protect (E) c and citizens' property through investing in various forms of resilience," he told BBC News. These included the percentage of a city's population living close to the (5) c ; the amount of time needed for a city to recover from flooding; the amount of uncontrolled development along the coastline, as well as the volume of measures to physically prevent floodwater entering a city.

(A, B, C, D, E FOR CROSS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 FOR DOWN. The first letters of the absents were given)

上期答案

上期Crossword答案

1. temperature 2. century 3. month 4. surface

5. global A. northern B. average C. highest

D. cooler E. record

上期Illation答案

The number is 381654729, because

381654729 / 9 = 42406081

38165472 / 8 = 4770684

3816547 / 7 = 545221

381654 / 6 = 63609

38165 / 5 = 7633

3816 / 4 = 954

381 / 3 = 127

38 / 2 = 19

3 / 1 = 3

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A piece of paper of size 5 by 5 with two blunted corners should be divided into no more than two pieces (i.e. just one cut in total) and be rearranged into size 6 by 4 as shown in the figure below. The question is: how should the paper be cut?

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