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题型：语法填空-短文语填难度：0.65 引用次数：96 题号：11246706

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

LAS VEGAS - A gunman in a high-rise hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip opened fire on a country music festival late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The gunman, 1 (identify) by police as Stephen Paddock, was later found dead by officers on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said during a news briefing Monday.

The massacre marked the nation’s 2 (late) outbreak of gunfire and bloodshed to erupt in a public place, again 3 (spread) terror in an American city transformed into a war zone. The carnage in Las Vegas surpassed the 49 people slain in June 2016 when a gunman in Orlando, 4 later said he was inspired by the Islamic State, opened fire inside a crowded nightclub.

Lombardo said investigators 5 not immediately identify a motive, leaving no clear answer as to 6 a gunman gunned down dozens of people. He also said 7 additional 527 people were injured, 8 he did not specify how many were wounded by gunfire or injured in the chaos that followed. Clark County Fire Chief Greg Cassell said officials were seeing a “wide range” of injuries including gunshot victims as well as people injured by shrapnel, trampling or getting hurt jumping fences attempting 9 (escape).

Paddock, 64, 10 (find) dead in his hotel room by Las Vegas SWAT officers, police said. They believe Paddock, who had checked in on Thursday and brought a cache of guns, took his own life in Room 135 before officers entered.

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Codenamed “Operation Overlord”， it was the 1 (large) combined sea, air and land operation in history, the aim being 2 (free) northwest Europe from German occupation. After waiting for the perfect 3 (combine) of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord 4 (set) for 6 June. With the commander’s order 5 (ring) in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for what would become known as DDay. 6 dawn on 6 June, thousands landed by parachute behind enemy lines in northern France. Meanwhile, thousands more were journeying across the English Channel to Normandy, 7 (protect) by fighter planes in the skies above them. The fiercest fighting was at Omaha Beach. Boats were hit and men drowned, 8 those who did make it to the beach faced heavy machine gunfire. But, despite the high cost in human life, the DDay landings were 9 success and were seen 10 (wide) as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

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