Unit4 Earthquake- reading测试
A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
Strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei
Province. For three days the water in the village wells _____________,
_____________. Farmers' wives ________ that the well walls had deep
_________ in them. A __________ came out of the cracks. In the farmyards,
the chickens and even the pigs were too ________ to eat. Mice ran out of
the fields ____________ ____________. Fish jumped out of bowls and ponds.
...点击查看全部>> /> At about 3:011 am on July 28. 1976, people saw bright lights in the sky.
The sound of planes could be heard outside Tangshan _____________
_________________ the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and
burst. But the one million people of the city, who _________________ these
events, went to bed as usual that night.
At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed that the world was
_______________! Eleven kilometers __________ below the city the greatest
earthquake of the 20th century began. It was heard in Beijing,
____________________________. One-third of the nation felt it. A huge crack
______________________________________________ cut across houses, roads and
canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became
rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city _________________.
Two-thirds of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
__________________________________________________________________. The
number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400.000.
But __________________________________________________? Everywhere they
looked nearly everything _______________. All of the city's hospitals, 75%
of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes ______________. Bricks
covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind, however, could blow
them away. Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or _______
______________. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of steel.
_______________ of cows would never give milk again. Half a million pigs
and millions of chickens had died. _________ ____________________. People
were ___________. Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook
Tangshan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors
____________________________. More buildings _______________. Water, food,
and electricity were hard to get. People began to wonder
______________________________.
_____________________. The army _________________________________________.
Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. The army organized teams to
dig out _________ ___________ and to bury the dead. To the north of the
city, most of the 10.000 miners were rescued from the coalmines. Workers
built _______________ whose homes had been destroye>>收起