But hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were 【小题1】 and to 【小题2】 the dead. More than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. Workers built shelters for survivors 【小题3】 homes had been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane. Slowly,the city began to 【小题4】 again.

Everywhere【小题1】 looked, there was nothing but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was【小题2】. About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone. 【小题3】 covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now【小题4】 the wells instead of water. People were in【小题5】.

The most 【小题1】 earthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that 【小题2】into coastlines across Asia yesterday，killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists, hotels, homes, and cars were 【小题3】 away by huge 【小题4】 caused by the strong earthquake that reached a magnitude of 9.0. The undersea quake 【小题5】 around 7:00 a.m., Sunday off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. In that area alone, at least, 1,870 people were killed.