Mavis Mrs.Bertrand Advanced English Writing November 13, 2012
The earthquake in 2008 What is the earthquake? It is the brutal earth movement which causes a catastrophe to human beings.As a horrible natural disaster, an earthquake always takes people’s lives away, destroys people’s living environment and creates a tremendous economic lo.In other words, earthquakes are big threats to our lives.Have you experienced an earthquake? Yes, I had in 2008.May 12th in 2008 was a special date that has been carved in my mind deeply.We were preparing to have our cla but the floor, desks and chairs began to shake.Someone shouted “earthquake”, and then we all ran to the play yard.Fortunately, we were not in the centre of the earthquake, and the centre was in Wen Chuan, a city of Sichuan province the neighboring province of us.It was reported that about seventy thousand people died from it.A lot of people were buried by collapsed buildings; children lost their parents and parents lost their babies.People suffered the death of their relations and families.The happy life was destroyed within a day.After the earthquake, people did not have home to live in.Buildings were collapsed or full of crevices in the walls.Thousands of people had to live in tents.All roads were broken off, thus, that beautiful city became an isolated miserable place.People were desperate about their life, miserable for the lo of families and worried
2 about their future.The city filled up with tears and misery.With regard to economic lo, the 2008 earthquake caused 800 billion RMB economic loes, which was a huge cost for our country.These monies were mainly spend on providing emergency supplies to local people, sending policeman and soldiers to rescue people and rebuilding the earthquake attacked city.After four years’ efforts, the city has been built again and people have lived a tranquil life in their hometown.And also people have been free from their miserable and horrible experience of 2008.In short, an earthquake is disastrous for it will destroy our lives, leave a painful experience to us and also cause a huge economic lo to our country.
