Unit 4

At 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake. It seemed    1    the world was ____2___ an end! Eleven kilometers____3_____(direct) below the city the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century began. It was heard in Beijing, ____4___ is one hundred kilometers away. One - third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was  eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide  cut __5____ houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from    6    (hole) in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or ____7____(injure) during the earthquake. Thousands of families   8    ( kill)  and many children were left ___9___ parents. The number of people    10    were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.