英语：Unit4 Earthquake-reading测试（新人教版必修1）.docVIP

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. 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 citys 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. __________