Đề thi giữa kì 1 môn Anh 9 TH&THCS Đông Động 2024

Đề thi giữa kì 1 môn Anh 9 TH&THCS Đông Động 2024

II. Read the passage and circle the best answer to each of the following questions about it.

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before the noon when the inhabitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meal. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent o the damage caused by fire rather than by the collapse of the buildings.

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