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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: