Question

 

Choose the word that is best fits each of the blank space:

 

collapsed – earthquake – hardly  – disaster – city – inhabitants – above – completely – under

 

China said today that there were heavy loss  of life in the (1)____ which struck Tangshan city yesterday. Survivors said that Tangshan, an industrial (2)___ of one million people 160 kms East of Peking, was (3)___ destroyed.

Observers living in Beijing said it appeared that only a small part of the one million (4) ____ escaped death or injury. Many of the men of Tangshan were working in the mines deep (5)___ the earth’s surface when the (6)___  occurred. Unfortunately, few of these miners have survived. A lot of people were also working in the city’s offices. Regretably, most were killed under falling concrete when the building (7)____.

The Chinese authorities have not yet given any information about the actual number of casualties, but it is thought that tens of thousands of people have been killed. (8)____ a house has been left standing.

 

Answer 1

1. destroyed              

2. death

3. were

4. earthquake

5. survived

6. offices

7. killed

8. collapsed

9. number

10. building