A 7.0 magnitude（级）earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.
The earthquakes kept ing hard and fast. 1 It’s not. The problem is what’s happening above ground, not underground, experts say.
2 They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes, scientists believe.
And news reports and better earthquake monitoring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.
On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakes—more than in most years for that time period. But that’s because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a large number of strong aftershocks.
Also, it’s not the number of quakes, but their destructive effects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards, 3 Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the world’s big cities.
Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes. 4 “If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes,” said Paul.
The earthquakes made everyone start to think 5 “People are paying attention to the violent planet we’re always lived on. Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again,” said US disaster researcher Dennis Mileti.
A．But it won’t last.
B．More people are moving into big cities.
C．Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.
D．There have been more deaths overt the past decade from earthquakes.
E．Many people began to wonder if something terrible is happening underground.
F．While it seems as if the are more earthquakes occurring, there really aren’t.
G．But developing nations with growing populations don’t pay attention to earthquake preparedness.
E
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(答案→)E
解析：文章讲述的是频频发生的地震的原因以及人们对此的思考和存在的问题。
【小题1】根据后面的It's not。可知，此处应当是一个关于地震方面的问题。故选择E，人们在问是否地下出了什么严重的问题
【小题2】根据They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes可知，此处的they指的是人，对应的就是B选项中的涌入城市的人们。
【小题3】根据 The death is largely due to building standards可知，地震中死亡的人是由于建筑物的原因，对应的是C中的buildings do。
【小题4】根据If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes可知，如果温饱问题没有解决，他们不会考虑地震问题，对应的G中的发展中国家不注意地震的预防。
【小题5】根据Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again可知，人们经常忘记地震这个教训，所以选择A，人们对地震的思考不会持续（很久）