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跟踪导练（三） 　　阅读地带 　　A 　　When Wei Yong returned home to his parents’ village last year， Shangma Huangtou， to visit his mother， he heard about the tremors. One night， the villagers told him the village was rocked by what everyone thought was an earthquake. The ground shook. The houses trembled. And the earth broke open. 　　There had been no earthquake， however. Instead， in this small village in the central province of Shanxi， three large coal mining operations had been digging underground for coal—day and night， sometimes using dynamite（炸药）. And from far below， they had broke the earth. 　　While Shanxi provides the coal that powers China’s economy， thousands of areas of land are sinking because of underground coal mining. 　　All night long， residents here say， trucks carrying coal waste empty their load off the side of the mountain. And all day long trucks overloaded with coal run past the village， breaking the roads and covering the road-side homes with coal waste. 　　Today， Shangma Huangtou has no water. Villagers say the stream running through here dried up 10 years ago. Now， the wells have run dry， too. It used to be that every family had a well； now the village hires a truck to fetch water from a mile away. 　　Some villagers often talk about the village’s founding myth， an old fable（神话）about how the beautiful village was founded with a small lake in its center. But one day， according to the fable， a man from southern China stole the village frog， bringing ruin to Shangma Huangtou. 　　“I don’t believe this myth，” Mr Lin， the village chief， said. “I believe there’s no water because of the coal mines. The earth is like the human body. And the water is like the blood in your veins（血管）. But now there’s no water； no blood.” 　　1. The underlined word “tremors” in Paragraph 1 probably means “___”. 　　A. noises B. shakes 　　C. earthquakes D. developments 　　2. The land of Shangma Huangtou is sinking because of ___ . 　　A. the use of dynamite 　　B. frequent earthquakes