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             D)appearing
73. A) strengthened      B) aided          C) transferred         D) provided
74. A) never            B)once