Four phrases/ sentences have been removed from the text below. For each question, circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
How can scientists predict earthquakes? (34) ______ They happen in places where pieces of the Earth’s surface meet. For example, earthquakes often occur on the west-coast of North and South America, around the Mediterranean Sea, and along the Pacific coast of Asia.
Another way to predict earthquakes is to look for changes in the Earth’s surface, (35)______. Some people say animals can predict earthquakes. Before earthquakes people have seen chickens sitting in trees, fish jumping out of the water, snakes leaving their holes and other animals acting strangely.
After an earthquake happens, people can die from lack of food, water, and medical supplies. The amount of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on where it happens, what time it happens, and how strong it is. (36)_______. Of the 6000 earthquakes on the Earth each year, only about fifteen cause great damage and many deaths.
A. It also depends on types of building, soil conditions and population.
B. Earthquakes are not scattered anywhere but happen in certain areas.
C. like a sudden drop of water level in the ground