Read the text then choose the best answer to fill in the blank

China said today that there was heavy loss of life in the earthquake which struck Tangshan City yesterday. Survivors said that Tangshan, an industrial city of one million people 160 kilometers east of Peking, was completely (6) ……..

Observers living in Beijing said it appeared that only a mall part of the one million inhabitants escaped (7) …… or injury.

Many of the men of Tangshan were working in the (8) …….. deep under the earth’s surface when the (9) ……… occurred. Unfortunately, few of these miners have (10) ……….

(6) ............

• A. 
  broken
• B. 
  destroyed
• C. 
  killed
• D. 
  collapsed