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必修一 Unit 4 必修一 Unit 4 Warming-up A Night the Earth didn ’t Sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village 1. （井）rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A 2. (smell)gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were 3. nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and 4. (burst). But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night. At 3:42 am everything began5. (shake) It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city one of the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century6. (begin) . It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut7. (cross) houses, roads and canals. Steam 8. (burst) from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in 9 (ruin) .The 10 (suffer)of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of them died or 11 (injure) during the earthquake. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left wit