THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE PASSAGE IS

18. The main purpose of the passage is:

our wrong doings” means:

A. People have suffered from consequences of what

A. To remind people about the danger of nature.

they had done to the environment.

B. To make people be aware of the importance of

B. People have learnt many things from the

the environment.

environment.

C. To help people distinguish between right and

wrong.

C. Wrong doings have helped people learn many

interesting lessons.

D. To confirm the importance of people to nature.

D. People have learnt many things from wrong

doings.

IV.Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. (1,5pts)

One of the (19) things that can happen on our earth is an earthquake. When

earthquakes take place near large cities, many people may be killed and many buildings are (20)

down. Fire may start and (21) more damage than the quake itself. Earthquake

comes (22) a shaking of the rocks under the surface of the earth. Forces within the earth push against the

rocks until they break. We cannot tell exactly (23) an earthquake is coming, but we can know places

on the (24) where they happen most often.