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Reading, Unit 5 of Module 6
An exciting job
        I have the greatest job in the world. I travel to ________ ______ (稀罕奇特的地方) and meet interesting people from all over the world. Sometimes working _______  (在室外), sometimes in an office, sometimes using scientific instruments in my work and sometimes meeting with _______ (当地的) people and tourists, I am never bored. Although my job is ________ _________ (偶尔有危险) I don’t mind, because danger excites me and makes me ______ _______ （感到有活力）. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help to protect people from one of the most powerful natural forces on earth —— the volcano.

I am a volcanologist working for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ( HVO).My main job is collecting information about Mount Kilauea, which is one of the ______ _______ （最活跃的） volcanoes in Hawaii. Having collected and ________ （评估） the information, I help other scientists to _______ (预测) where lava from the volcano will flow next and how fast it will flow. Our work has saved many lives because people in the path of the lava can be warned to leave their homes. Unfortunately, we can’t move their homes out of the way and many houses have been covered with lava or ________________________ （全部焚毁）.

When boiling rock erupts from the volcano and   ______ ________（撞回） to earth, it causes less damage than you might imagine. This is because no one lives near the top of Mount Kilauea where the rocks fall. The lava that flows slowly down the mountain causes ______ ______ _________ （大得多的损失） because it buries everything in its path under the molten rock. However, the eruption itself is really exciting to watch and I’ll never forget my _____ ________ ______（第一次见到） an eruption. It was in the second week after I arrived in Hawaii. ________ ________ （工作一整天后） hard all day, I went to bed early. I was

______ _____ （睡熟了）when suddenly my bed began shaking and I heard strange sound, like a railway train passing outside my window.

________ _______ （经历过） quite a few earthquakes in Hawaii already, I didn’t _____ _______ ________ （在意）. I was  about to go back to sleep _______ suddenly my bedroom became as bright as day. I ran out of the house into the back garden where I could see Mount Kilauea ___ ______ ________（在远处）. There had been an eruption in the side of the mountain and red hot lava _____ _________ （喷射） hundreds of metres into the air. It was an absolutely _______ ________（绝妙的奇观）. 　　　The day after this eruption I was lucky enough to have a much ______ _______　（近距离观察）at it. Two other scientists and I were driven up the mountain and dropped ______________________　(尽可能近的） to the crater that had been formed during the eruption. Having earlier collected special clothes from the observatory, we put them on before we went _____ ______ (再走近). All three of us _______ ________ （看起来象） spacemen. We had white protective suits that covered our whole body, helmets, big boots and special gloves. It wasn’t very easy to walk ___ these suits, but we slowly made ____ ______ （前行）to the edge of the crater and looked down into the red, boiling centre. The other two climbed down into the crater to collect some lava for_____ ______ （日后研究）, but this being my first experience, I stayed at the top and watched them.

Today, I am just ___ _________about my job ___ the day I first started. （我还是象开始工作时那样，对我的工作满怀热情）。________ ______ （从事研究）volcanoes now for more than twenty years, I am still amazed at their beauty ____ ______ ____ （以及）their potential to cause great damage.