题目内容：

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A terrifying example of the sea’s power saw 125,000 people die in 12 different countries. The destruction(破坏) was caused when a very big     sent tsunamis smashing into Indian Ocean coastlines.

Communities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Malaysia and East Africa have been    by the huge waves. Whole towns were simply swept aside by the power of the water. Cars, trains and buildings could not     , let alone the people who stood      .

The earthquake    9.0 on the Richter scale(里氏震级) and occurred     the coast of Indonesia. It was     as the fifth strongest since 1900. Scientists said the quake was as    as a million of the atomic bombs that were    onto Japan during World War Ⅱ. It may be the worst natural disaster in recent history    it is affecting so many heavily populated coastal areas.

Because such waves     happen in the Indian Ocean, there is no system in place to    coastal communities they are about to be hit.

Tsunami is Japanese for “harbor wave”. They are usually caused by a sudden          or fall of part of the Earth’s crust(地壳) under the ocean. Tsunamis often happen in oceans and they are most    in the Pacific.

Tsunamis can be very long—as much as 100 kilometers—and be as far as one hour apart. They are able to    entire oceans without losing much energy. One of the most striking    about tsunamis is that an earthquake on one side of the Pacific Ocean can cause giant waves and destruction on the other side. When the ocean is deep, tsunamis can travel unnoticed     speeds of up to 800 kilometers per hour.

The wave may only be a few meters high in the ocean.    when it is near the shore and reaches shallow (浅) water, the wave     very quickly in height. Witnesses(目击者) in some areas of Indonesia reported seeing up to 10-metre high waves crash into the shore.

Tsunamis travel     in all directions from the center of an earthquake and attack coastlines. They can easily suck people out to sea, cause flooding and destroy property.

1.A. storm           B. hurricane      C. wave          D. earthquake

2.A. threatened       B. shaken         C. destroyed    D. transformed

3.A. remain           B. survive        C. exist         D. achieve

4.A. in the way       B. in a way      C. on the way  D. by the way

5.A. equaled          B. ranged        C. measured     D. evaluated

6.A. on              B. in            C. off          D. at

7.A. adopted          B. noticed        C. marked       D. recorded

8.A. powerful         B. big            C. huge         D. great

9.A. found            B. consumed      C. aimed        D. dropped

10.A. if              B. though         C. when         D. as

11.A. never          B. frequently     C. rarely        D. ever

12.A. convince      B. warn           C. protect      D. remind

13.A. exchange       B. rise          C. increase      D. growth

14.A. usual           B. common         C. ordinary      D. general

15.A. spread          B. extend        C. cross        D. reach

16.A. facts           B. data          C. stories       D. accidents

17.A. in             B. on             C. at          D. for

18.A. And            B. But           C. Therefore    D. Or

19.A. goes down       B. comes about    C. runs out     D. builds up

20.A. outward         B. forward        C. upward        D. downward