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Unit4?A?NIGHT?THE?EARTH?DIDNT?SLEEP Strange?things?were?happening?in?the?countryside?of?northeast?Hebei.For?three?days?the?water?in?the?village?wells?rose?and?fell,?rose?and?fell.Farmers?noticed?that?the?well?walls?had?deep?cracks?in?them.?A?smelly?gas?came?out?of?the?cracks.In?the farmyards,?the?chickens?and?even?the?pigs?were?too?nervous?to?eat.Mice?ran?out?of?the?fields?looking?for?places?to?hide.? Fish?jumped?out?of?their?bowls?and?ponds.At?about?3:00?am?on?July?28,1976,some?people?saw?bright?lights?in?the?sky.The? sound?of?planes?could?be?heard?outside?the?city?of?Tangshan?even?when?no?planes?were?in?the?sky. In?the?city,?the?water?pipes?in?some?buildings?cracked?and?burst.?But?the?one?million?people?of?the?city,?who?thought?little?of?these?events,?were?asleep?as?usual?that?night.? At?3:42?am?everything?began?to?shake.It?seemed?as?if?the?world?was?at?an?end!Eleven?kilometres?directly?below?the?city?thegreatest?earthquake?of?the?20th?century?had?begun.It?was?felt?in?Beijing,?which?is?one?hundred?kilometres?away.?One-third?of?the?nation?felt?it.A?huge?crack?that?was?eight?kilometres?long?and?thirty?metres?wide?cut?across?houses,?roads?and?canals.Steam?burst?from?holes?in?the?ground.Hard?hills?of?rock?became?rivers?of?dirt.In?fifteen?terrible?seconds?a?large?city?lay?in ruins.The?suffering?of?the?people?was?extreme.Two-thirds?of?them?died?or?were?injured.?Thousands?of?families?were?killed?and?many?children?were?left?without?parents.?The?number?of?people?who?were?killed?or?injured?reached?more?than?400,000. But?how?could?the?survivors?believe?it?was?natural?Everywhere?they?looked?nearly?everything?was?destroyed.All?of?the citys?hospitals,75%of?its?factories?and?buildings?and?90%?of?its?homes?were?gone.Bricks?covered?the?ground?like?red? autumnleaves.?No?wind,?however,?could?blow?them?away.Two?dams?fell?and?most?of?the?bridges?also?fell?or?were?not?safe? for?travelling.The?railway?tracks?were?now?useless?pieces?of?steel.Tens?of?thousands?of?cows?would?never?gi