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請依下文回答第 10 題至第 13 題         Many volcanic eruptions have taken place in the last two hundred years. However, three stand out, not onlybecause of the destruction they caused, but also because of the number of lives they claimed.      Until 1815, Mount Tomboro on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia was 4,100 meters high. These days it is 2,821meters above sea level. The reason for this was the largest volcanic eruption of modern times. Fifty cubic kilometers ofmatter was hurled into the atmosphere, and volcanic ash fell on islands as far away as a thousand kilometers.      The eruption itself killed ten thousand people, but the destruction of livestock and crops brought about a faminewhich increased the death toll to over ninety thousand. There was also so much volcanic debris circulating in theearth’s upper atmosphere that 1816 became known as “the year without a summer.”     Sixty-eight years after Mount Tomboro erupted, another huge volcanic explosion took place there. This time itwas Mount Krakatoa. It caused such a powerful tsunami that 165 coastal villages were wiped out. The sun wascompletely blacked out for more than twenty-four hours and volcanic ash fell over ships as far away as 6,000kilometers.       Finally, the most recent massive eruption happened in Washington State in the USA, when the top blew offMount St. Helens on 18th May 1980, and a cloud of ash and gas shot nineteen kilometers into the air. It was highenough to cause turbulence for jetliners passing overhead. Luckily, the loss of life was minimal as the mountain lies inthe middle of a sparsely populated national park. However, the blast destroyed all wildlife within 180 squarekilometers of the mountain.      These facts are just the tip of the iceberg, but what one can learn from them is that volcanoes will go on eruptingand that there is very little we can do about it
10 What does the underlined word “claimed” mean in the first paragraph?
(A) Killed
(B) Considered
(C) Demanded
(D) Declared

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.52381
統計：A(11),B(5),C(2),D(3),E(0)

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