Prepositions Exercise For Class 10
Fill in the blanks with an appropriate preposition.
……………………….. (At / In / On) 2:45 in the morning ……………………. (of / on / over) August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber flew north ……………………… (in / from / by) Tinian Island ……………………… (in / on / over) the Marianas toward Japan . Three and a half hours later, …………………….. (across / through / over) the city of Hiroshima , the air craft dropped an 8,900-pound atomic weapon. Two thousand feet ……………………. (above / over / across) the ground, the bomb, dubbed “Little Boy”……………………… (with / by / of) its makers, detonated, leveling almost 90% of the city.
On August 9, another B-29 set out ……………………….. (of / for / to) the Kokura Arsenal …………………….. (on / of / over) the southwest Japanese island of Kyushu . Foul weather, however, persuaded the pilot to proceed instead toward Nagasaki. Over this secondary target a larger atomic weapon code-named “Fat Man” was dropped. Local geography spared Nagasaki ……………………… (with / from / by) the near total devastation suffered by Hiroshima; only one third of the city was destroyed.
The attacks ………………………. (of / on / in) Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a devastating psychological impact ………………………. (in / on / at) the already weakened Japanese. Emperor Hirohito accepted the U.S. ‘ terms of surrender on August 14.
Answers
At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945 , an American B-29 bomber flew north from Tinian Island in the Marianas toward Japan . Three and a half hours later, over the city of Hiroshima , the air craft dropped an 8,900-pound atomic weapon. Two thousand feet above the ground, the bomb, dubbed “Little Boy” by its makers, detonated, leveling almost 90% of the city.
On August 9, another B-29 set out for the Kokura Arsenal on the southwest Japanese island of Kyushu . Foul weather, however, persuaded the pilot to proceed instead toward Nagasaki . Over this secondary target a larger atomic weapon code-named “Fat Man.” was dropped. Local geography spared Nagasaki from the near total devastation suffered by Hiroshima ; only one third of the city was destroyed.
The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a devastating psychological impact on the already weakened Japanese. Emperor Hirohito accepted the U.S. ‘ terms of surrender on August 14.
