On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, caused buildings to collapse, set off avalanches (1) _____________ Mount Everest and catapulted the entire region (2) ____________ chaos. The worst earthquake in 80 years (3) _____________ nearly 9,000 people, injured thousands, destroyed or damaged at (4) _____________ 880,000 homes and more (5) _____________ 1,200 health facilities. Multiple aftershocks throughout the region hampered rescue operations, (6)_____________ survivors and added to the death and injury toll. Then the monsoon (7) _____________ compounded the misery as survivors sought shelter amidst ruined (8) ____________. AmeriCares immediately launched a (9)_____________relief effort sending aid workers, (10)_____________ teams, and emergency medicines and supplies to the disaster zone.
1. A. in                                        B. before                            C. on                                  D. after
2. A. into                                     B. onto                               C. to                                   D. in
3. A. kill                                      B. kills                               C. killing                            D. killed
4. A. less                                     B. least                               C. more                              D. most
5. A. than                                    B. then                               C. until                               D. without
6. A. terrify                                 B. terrifies                          C. terrified                        D. terrifying
7. A. area                                     B. size                                C. time                               D. season
8. A. hills                                     B. buildings                       C. rivers                             D. mountains
9. A. high-class                           B. short-term                     C. large-scale                     D. long-range
10. A. medicine                           B. medical                         C. medically                      D. medicate