（4）完形填空An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. it took so

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An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. it took some 75,000 lives, __21_  130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes. __22__ overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed across the region, tended by international aid organizations, military __23__ and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set in.
Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the __24__ of spring the refugees(难民) will be moved again. Camps that _25__ health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were __26_  intended to be permanent.
For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings __27__ emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of as  many as 10 people have had to shelter under a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing __28__ with neighbors. “They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers,” officials say. “They are dreaming of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start farming again.” But most will be returning to __29__ but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical line have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers __30__ that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took away. And for the thousands of survivors, the recovery will never be complete.
Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built onto the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.
21.   A) injured     B) ruined           C) destroyed         D) damaged
22.   A) Altogether   B) Almost           C) Scarcely          D) Surely
23.   A) ranks      B) equipment        C) personnel         D) installations
24.   A) falling     B) emergence      C) arrival             D) appearing
25.   A) strengthened    B) aided       C) transferred         D) provided
26.   A) never          B) once       C) ever                D) yet
27.   A) puzzled        B) contrasted   C) doubled             D) mixed
28.   A) facilities     B) instruments    C) implements          D) appliances
29.   A) anything         B) something      C) everything        D) nothing
30.   A) account          B) measure        C) estimate          D) value