Read the text again. Five sentences are missing. Match each sentence (A-F) to a gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence. A Closer to the epicentre, buildings collapsed, roads and railways were ripped apart and fires blazed.
B The evacuation zone around the nuclear power plant was soon increased to 20 km.
C Many thousands of people lost their lives and roads, buildings and entire villages were swept away.
D Sadly, there were hardly any
survivors.
E Without power, the cooling system at the Fukushima No. 1 Plant failed.
F It washed away houses and cars and hurled ships far inland, carrying them along and slamming them into whatever lay in their path.
1-C
2-A
3-F
4-E
5-D