An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75,000 lives, 【C1】______130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food

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问题     An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75,000 lives, 【C1】______130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes.【C2】______overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed【C3】______the region, tended by international aid organizations, military【C4】______ and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set【C5】______ .
    Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the【C6】______of spring the refugees will be moved again. Camps that 【C7】______health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were 【C8】______ intended to be permanent.
    For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings 【C9】______emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of 10 many as 【C10】______people have had to shelter【C11】______a single tent and share cook stoves and bathing 【C12】______with neighbors. "They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers," officials say. "They are【C13】______of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start 【C14】______again." But most will be returning to 【C15】______but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical【C16】______ have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers【C17】______that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took【C18】______ . And for the thousands of survivors, the 【C19】______ will never be complete.
    Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built【C20】______the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.
【C17】

选项 A、account
B、measure
C、estimate
D、evaluate

答案C

解析 考查动词辨析。空后的that it will take years to rebuild应该是Aid workers对将来重建状况的预测或估计,故C.estimate“估计”符合文意。account“计算”,measure“测量”,evaluate“评估”,均与空后的内容不符。
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