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阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 An 8.8­magnitude earthquake struck Chile on 27 Feb,2010.More than 300 people are reported __1__(kill) in Chile after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the South American nation early Saturday，__2__(cause)considerable destruction as well，and creating tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean. Rescuers worked frantically for hours to help survivors of the quake __3__centered 100 kilometers from the city of Concepcion but caused damage and deaths in several parts of Chile. Homes，buildings and bridges collapsed or caught fire，cars __4__(overturn)，and the main international airport had to be shut down because of damage. One survivor said it was terrible. She said she thought she was not _5__(scare)of earthquakes but then，she says，it looked as if everything was going to collapse. There were at least eight aftershocks and tidal waves of up __6__ two meters that hit Chile’s coast. Residents in lowlying areas and living on islands off the mainland tried to flee __7__higher ground. Chile experiences many earthquakes but the early Saturday natural disaster was __8__of its most severe (剧烈的). Thorne Lay，a geophysicist at the University of California，Santa Cruz，said it was much stronger than _9__one that caused devastation(废墟)in Haiti last month，but probably less __10__(destroy)，because of where it was centered. 答案：1.killed 2.causing 3.which/that 4.were overturned  5.scared 6.to 7.to 8.one 9.the 10.destructive

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