--It's reported that nearly 150,000 people lost their lives in Asian tsunamis(海啸).

　　---Yes, ______ news came as _____ shock to me.

A.the; a 　　　　B.the; the 　　　　C.a; a 　　　　D.a; the

--I heard that as many as 4 000 people were killed in 9

　 --Yes. __________ news came as __________shock to us.

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— I hear that Tony was seriously injured in an accident the other day.

　 — Yes, ______ news came as ______ shock（震惊） to all of us.

　 A. the; the B. a; 不填 C. the; a D. 不填; a

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　　No one in the United States could forget the sorrowful day April the fourteenth, 1865,  1 Abraham Lincoln was murdered.

　　That night,  2 a very busy day, the President and his wife went to Fod's Theatre in Washington D. C, where a new play  3 .Near the theatre there lived  4 unsuccessful actor named John Wilkes Booth, who was strongly against the  5 though he had not  6 the South himself. As the play  7 after a moment of rest, Booth came into the theatre. He walked slowly and quietly  8 the door through which he  9 the President's box. He looked  10 carefully so as to find the guards  11 duty was to protect the President. To his joy, there was none of  12 and nobody noticed him. He reached the door quickly and began to get hold of his gun that  13  in his pocket.

　　It was quiet in the theatre and everybody fixed his  14 on the stage (舞台). Suddenly a terrible sound of a  15 broke in on the play. It surprised everybody and soon everyone looked  16 at where the sound had just come. Smoke was seen  17 from the President's box, where the  18 had enjoyed the play all the night! Immediately the theatre was full of shouting and  19 people. Soldiers hurried  20 to search the building, but it was too  21 ! The murderer had already jumped from the box  22 the stage, from which then he hurriedly ran out of  23 and very soon disappeared in the darkness.

　　The news came  24 Lincoln, whom the people had come to love as an inspiring leader and a wise, warmhearted, honest man, was shot in the chest, and  25 early next morning.

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---It's reported that nearly 150,000 people lost their lives in Asian tsunamis(海啸).

　---Yes, ______ news came as _____ shock to me.

　　A.the; a 　　　　B.the; the 　　　　C.a; a 　　　　D.a; the