语篇填空（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据所学课文，在空白处填上合适的单词使意义通顺且语法正确。将空缺处所填单词写在答题纸的横线上，每空一词。
It was a   (frighten) night. Everything began to shake, with the pipes burst and the electricity cut off. The dam cracked and then burst. The water went all over the fields and  (destroy) quite a few villages along the river. Soon a large city lay in   (ruin). It seemed as if the world was at an end! The number of people   were killed or seriously injured reached more than 400,000. A number of people whose homes had been damaged were trapped, waiting for the rescue.  , all hope was not lost. Soldiers were soon sent to help the rescue workers. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.