语法填空。 How could the survivors believe i

题目：

语法填空。

    How could the survivors believe it was 1______ (nature)? Everywhere they looked nearly everything 

2______ (destroy). All of the city's hospitals, 75% of 3______ factories and buildings and 90% of its homes

were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind, 4______, could blow them away.

Two dams fell and most of 5______ bridges also fell or were not safe for travelling. The railway tracks were

now 6______ (use) pieces of steel. Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk again. Half a million pigs

and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were shocked. Then,

later that afternoon, another big quake 7______ was almost as strong as the first 8______ shook Tangshan.

Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins. More buildings fell down. Water, food,

and electricity were hard 9______ (get). People began to wonder 10______ long the disaster would last.