Unit 02 Please read the following passage and choose one answer to fill in each blank. On August 6, 1945, an American aircraft __ 1 __ a bomb on the Japanese town of Hiroshima. The bomb __ 2 _ 1,000 ft. above the ground. Within the fraction of a second, the bomb changed from a metal cylinder into an immerse mass of _ _3 __ gas, millions of degrees hot. The air itself around the point of explosion began to burn. A shower of __ 4__ invisible rays attacked every living or dead thing in the town. Then followed a shock-weave __ 5 __ shattered the building and tremendous blast of hot __ 6 __whirled the debris of stone, concrete, metal, and wood over the ground. The explosion killed at least 140,000 people and left tens of thousands of other maimed or disfigured __ 7 __ life. Three days later, yet another bomb of the same kind gave the town of Nagasaki the same __ 8 __ blow. Within the __ 9 __area, not a single soul remained above, and the city centre looked _ 10 _ it had been razed by a monster steam-roller. 1. (A) drops (B) has dropped (C) dropped (D) was dropped 2. (A) set up (B) claimed (C) propelled (D) exploded 3. (A) expanded (B) expanding (C) being expanded (D) having expanded 4. (A) penetrating (B) penetrated (C) forced (D) propelling 5. (A) where (B) when (C) who (D) which 6. (A) air (B) gas (C) steam (D) atmosphere 7. (A) with (B) of (C) for (D) into 8. (A) valuable (B) fatal (C) appropriate (D) careless 9. (A) stricken (B) blocking (C) plain (D) dune 10. (A) that (B) which (C) as if (D) in case