0<Reporter reporting live> As you can see, thousands of people are living on the streets here in one of many quake affected cities in Szechuan. Businesses like banks, bakeries are closed. Only stores that sell emergency supplies are open. Apart from the risk of another devastating aftershock, the risk of flooding as a result of swollen 'quake lakes' is growing.02br 02br 00Military engineers are racing against time to drain the quake lakes as residents living downstream are evacuating. Some farmers refuse02br 00to evacuate as the harvest season is approaching. Some officials estimate reconstructing the quake hit cities will take years if not decades and will require billions of dollars. Parents who have lost their children in the disaster are allowed to have another kid under the nation's one child policy. A victim who lost his 5 year-old daughther said he couldn't even think of having another child at the moment. 02br 02br 00Some residents blame the government for the deaths of their children as in some affected areas, only the schools collapsed while other buildings were hardly damaged, leading residents to believe the government cut corners to save money. When officials came to clean up the rubble, residents protested and chased them away in an effort to keep the evidence which residents believe the goverment was trying to cover up.02br 02br 00Are there any mistakes? Thanks in advance!0-
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"02br 00 "quake hit cities" is a little awkward. " "Kid" in this kind of writing is inappropriate. " Two hyphens.
— Delmobile
"02br 00 "quake hit cities" is a little awkward.
" "Kid" in this kind of writing is inappropriate.
" Two hyphens.
And I was taught to spell out any number smaller than 100, but that's just a style question.
02br 00 I'd order your last paragraph like this:02br 00In some areas, only the school buildings collapsed, while other buildings were hardly damaged.
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0 "Businesses like banks 01font00and 02font00bakeries are closed." 02br 00 To be absolutely clear, I would say: "Some farmers refuse to evacuate 01font00because 02font00the harvest season is approaching." "As" can be used to mean "because," and your use here is correct; but I would prefer "becau