Unit 4 Natural Disasters 课文语法填空-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

必修一 Unit 4 Natural Disasters The night the earth didn’t sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks ______________(appear) in the well walls. At least one well had some _________ (smell) gas coming out of it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused ______________ (go) inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for __________ (hide) places, and fish jumped out of the water. It was at about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July 1976, _____________ bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to ___________ end! Eleven km directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the ____________(twenty) century had begun, a quake _________ even caused damage more than 150 km away in Beijing. Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it! A huge crack, eight km in ____________ (long) and 30 metres in ____________ (wide), cut across houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than one minute, a large city __________ (lie) in ruins. Two thirds of the people ______________ (live) there were dead or injured. Thousands of children _______________ (leave) without parents. The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake ____________ (be) more than 400,000. Everywhere survivors looked, ____________ was nothing but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn __________(leaf), but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe ___________(cross). The railway tracks were now useless pieces of