第二节：读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Are we having, more natural disasters? It does seem so．In the past 10 months，we have had the Indian Ocean tsunami，hurricanes in the US，floods in India and China and now the Pakistan earthquake．．Watch television，and you would think that the world is hit from one disaster to another．
Last year, there were 128 major floods，121 hurricanes，42 earthquakes．Add major forest fires and there were a total of 360 official natural disasters in 2004．This was far more than the 239 recorded in 1995．What is happening is that more people are being killed and affected by disasters．901，177 had died in natural disasters from 1995 to 2004，compared with 643，418 in the previous decade．You will find that 2.54 billion people－almost half the people alive—have been through one disaster or another in the past decade，compared with 1.7 billion in the previous 10 years．Worldwide，the number of people affected by disaster has climbed 46％ in a decade．
