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III-Read the passage below and circle the best answer to fill in each gap

and decide if the following sentences are T/F: (2 ms)

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 noon when the inhabitants of Tokyo were cooking

their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the

earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broken out everywhere and

quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because

many of the road had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire fighting

equipment as most of the water pipes had burst . Consequently, over ninety

percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of

buildings.Most of those who dided were not killed in the earthquake itself

but in the fires which followed.If the earthquake had occurred at night while

people were sleeping , far fewer would have died.

*True or False: