单项选择题

  An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75000 lives,     1    130 000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes.     2    overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed     3    the region, tended by international aid organizations, military     4    and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set     5    .
    Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the     6    of spring, the refugees will be moved again. Camps that     7    health care, food and shelter for 150 000 survivors have begun to close as they were     8    intended to be permanent.
    For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings     9    emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of     10    many as 10 people have had to shelter     11    a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing     12    with neighbors. "They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers," officials say. "They are     13    of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start     14    again." But most will be returning to     15    but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical     16    have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers     17    that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took     18    . And for the thousands of survivors, the     19    will never be complete.
    Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built     20    the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.