almost a hundred thousand pepole 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 (1) ..... their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon the earth (2) ..... to shake.
As a result, small fires.(3).......every where and quickly spread. the fire engines were prevented (4)..... to help because many of the roads (5)......open. It was impossible to use fire fighting equipment as most of the water pipes (6)....... Consequently. over ninety per cent of the damage (7)...... by fire rathe than by the collapse of buildings.
Most of those (8).... were not killed in the earthquake itself but in the fires which followed. If the earthquake had occurred at nigh while people(9).......far fewer (10)....
1/ cooked,were cooking, would cook, had cooked
2/ began, used to begin, begin, was beginning
3/ were breaking out, would breaking out, have broken out, broke out
4/ from going, to go, for going, he went
5/ have cracked, cracking, crack, were cracking
6/ would burst, had burst, have burst, used to burst
7/ caused, was causing, causing, waw caused
8/ who died, died, they died, dying
9/ would sleep, have slept, had slept, were sleeping
10/ died, would die, had died, would have died
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