Part V
An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8. 2005. It took some 75.000 lives,_67_130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes.
_68_ overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed
_69_the region, tended by international aid
organizations, military_70_and aid groups work­ing day and night to shelter the survivors before u in­ter set_71_.
Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the_72_of spring, the refugees will be moved again.
Camps that_73_health care, food and shelter for
150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were
_74_intended to be permanent.

For most of the refugees, the thought of going
back brings._75_, emotions. The past six months
have been difficult. Families of _76_ many as 10
people have had to shelter _77_a single tent and
share cookstoves and bathing_78_with neighbors. "They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers," officials say. "They are_79_of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and

start_80_again." Bui mosi will be retuming to
_81_but heaps of ruins. In many villages, elecuica!
_82_ have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid
workers _83_thai it will lake years (o rebuild what
the earthquake look_84_. And for the thousands urvivors. the_85_, will never be complete.
Yet the survivors have lo start somewhere. New homes can be built__86__the stones, bricks and
beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good
lime lo start again.

67. A) injured B)ruined C) destroyed D) damaged
68. A) Altogether B) Almost C) Scarcely D) Surely
69. A) among B )above C) amid D) across
70. A) ranks B) equipment C)equipment D) installations
71. A) out B)in C)on D) forth
72. A)falling B) emergence C) arrival D)appearing
73. A) strengthened B) aided C) transferred D) provided
74. A) never B)once C)ever D) yet
75. A) puzzled B) contrasted C) doubled D) mixed
76. A) like B)as C)so D)too
77. A) by B) below C) under D) with
78. A) facilities B) instruments C) implements D) appliances
79. A) seeking B) dreaming C) longing D) searching
80. A) producing B) cultivating C) farming D) nourishing
81. A) anything' B) something C) everything D) nothing
82. A) lines B) channels C) paths D) currents
83. A) account B) measure C)estimate D) evaluate
84. A) aside B) away C)up D)out
85. A) reservation B) rclrcai C) replacement D) recovery
86. A) from B) ih rough C)upon D) onto