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　　The fire again made all the world shocked (震惊). A great fire broke out on April 15, in the town of Mina, only five kilometres from the holiest city of Mecca (圣城麦加), when two million people gathered here for the annual pilgrimage(朝圣).

　　It was all started by a gas container when someone was cooking in a camp. The strong wind blew the fire to thousands of camps in just a moment. Many were injured when escaping from the burning camps, for they could not find their way in the heavy smoke and flames(火焰), and some ran the wrong way. The fire lasted for more than five hours before it was put out. Although the firemen arrived shortly after the fire alarm and they were backed by the helicopters, when the fire was at last put out, it was at the cost of 340 lives and 1537 were injured, some of them very seriously.

　　About 70000 new camps were put up to help those who lost everything in the fire. An Indian official said more than half of the dead were Indians, the others were from the neighbouring Asian countries.

　　The fire was the latest in a long line of tragedies (悲剧) around here. In 1994, people were so crowded that 270 people were found dead and in 1990, an accident left nearly 1500 dead.

1．The whole world were shocked ________.

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A．for the fire was a very serious one

B．for they couldn't believe it was true

C．for it happened in the holiest city

D．for fire broke out so easily there

2．The fire got out of control so quickly because ________.

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A．there were a lot of gas containers in the camp

B．the wind carried the fire quickly around

C．there were too many people

D．people ran away to other camps and carried the fire around

3．From the accidents mentioned in the passage, we may conclude that ________.

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A．people were not careful enough

B．the pilgrimages there were not organized well enough

C．the firemen there were not able to do their work well

D．it was not easy to prevent accidents from happening

4．When the fire broke out, many people got burnt or even lost their lives because ________.

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A．they couldn't wake up in time

B．they didn't know how to run away

C．they didn't know which way to head

D．they couldn't run fast enough