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balandron [24]
3 years ago
13

Below is a passage from a May 4, 1906 article in Collier’s, a popular magazine of the time. It was written by Jack London, who w

ould go on to become a great American author. In this article, he tells about the destruction of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Certain words have been replaced with blanks. Using the rest of the text as a clue, USE THE WORD BANK to fill in the blanks in the answer portion. Make sure you enter the words in the correct order.

The Story of an Eyewitness By Jack London, Collier’s special correspondent

The earthquake shook down in San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of walls and chimneys. But the 1)___________________ that followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property. There is no 2)___________________ within hundreds of millions the actual damage 3) ___________________. Not in history has a modern 4)___________________ city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories and a fringe of 5) ___________________ on its outskirts. Its industrial section is wiped out. Its business section is wiped out. Its social and 6.) ___________________ section is wiped out. The factories and warehouses, the great stores and newspaper buildings, the hotels and the palaces of the 7.) _______________ are all gone. Within an hour after the earthquake shock the smoke of San Francisco’s burning was a 8.) ____________ tower visible a hundred miles away. And for three days and nights this tower swayed in the sky, reddening the sun, darkening the day, and filling the land with smoke.









WORD BANK:

imperial
wrought
residential
conflagration
lurid
dwelling-houses
estimating
nabobs



30 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
English
1 answer:
inysia [295]3 years ago
4 0

The words which can be best used to complete the given sentences are:

  1. conflagration
  2. estimating
  3. wrought
  4. residential
  5. dwelling-houses
  6. imperial
  7. nabobs
  8. lurid

<h3>What is a Word Bank?</h3>

This refers to the use of words in order to fill in blanks on a given passage or sentences.

With this in mind, we can see that the passage is about the great earthquake which engulfed San Francisco and spared nothing in its part and the loss of property valued to be in the millions of dollars.

Read more about 1906 San Francisco Earthquake here:

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