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B)
nowadays, everyone in Hong Kong has an equal chance of finding a good career
C) it used to be harder to find a good job in Hong Kong than in other countries
D) even in Hong Kong companies tour the universities trying to recruit graduates
Moderate earthquake shook Tang early yesterday, striking fear into millions of Chinese. In
1976, a much stronger tremor in the same city killed 240,000 o and heralded the
death of Mao
Zedong. Superstition now surrounds years in which the lunar calendar counts the eighth month
twice. The so-called double-August occurred in 1976 and began on August 26 this year. It lasts
until October 23. Yesterday's quake, registering 5.0 on the Richter scale and felt 160 kilometres
away in Beijing, fulfills the premonition that natural disasters and cataclysmic political events
occur in leap-August. Soothsayers suggest that just as the death of
Mao followed shortly after
the 1976 quake, the death of ailing patriarch Deng Xiaoping might be foretold. Hundreds of
panic-stricken people ran into the streets as yesterday's tremor raced through the industrial city
at 6.26 am. This time, however, there was no devastation or casualties. About 40 aftershocks,
the strongest of which measured 2.5 on Richter, were recorded later in the day. "It was
terrifying. The building shook and I and my neighbours all ran out into the street," said a
telephone operator. "No one was hurt and no buildings fell down, despite the fact that some old
peasant homes were damaged at the epicentre," Han Shuhua
at the Tangshan Seismology
Bureau said. "There is no danger. It was only a small earthquake and we have had a hundred
small quakes this year."
10. Where would you expect to find this passage in a newspaper?
A) editorial
B)
advertisement
C) travel section
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