完形填空试题精讲Exercise 2

Exercise 2 (200706)
    An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75,000 lives, _____67_____ 130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or home. _____68_____ overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed _____69_____ the region, tended by international aid organizations, military _____70_____ and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set _____71_____.
    Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the _____72_____ of spring, the refugees will be moved again. Camps that _____73_____ health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were _____74_____ intended to be permanent.
    For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings _____75_____ emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of _____76_____ many as 10 people have had to shelter _____77_____ a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing _____78_____ with neighbors. “They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers”, officials say. “They are _____79_____ of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start _____80_____ again”. But most will be returning to _____81_____ but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical _____82_____ have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers _____83_____ that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took _____84_____. And for the thousands of survivors, the _____85_____ will never be complete.
    Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built _____86_____ the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.
67. A) injured          B)ruined          C) destroyed          D) damaged
68. A) Altogether       B) Almost         C) Scarcely           D) Surely
69. A) among          B )above          C) amid              D) across
70. A) ranks           B) equipment       C) personnel         D) installations
71. A) out             B)in              C)on                 D) forth
72. A)falling           B) emergence      C) arrival       

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