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car train had just left a station in Turpan in Xinjiang when it was hit. “A strong sandstorm broke the window soon after the train left it blew some of the cars off the rail, ”a passenge r said. The train had been running between the capital city of Urumqi and Aksu, in the west. Sandstorms happen a lot in that are fed by the deserts of Xinjiang and Inner winds blow the sands toward Beijing and the eastern cities each spring. A sandstorm is a mon natural usually happens in winds blow a huge amount of sand into the are so strong that they can blow you 1 to meters away from where you were some other disasters, sandstorms e with a you see the clouds with a dark brown color, that means there may be a sandstorm. Xinjiang is one of the areas where sandstorms happen most often, which results from a dry climate, vast desert and a strong is in northwestern has mountains on four Tianshan Mountains, which are in the middle, divide the land into two large basins(盆地 ). Both basins have deserts in their are the source of passes and valleys(山谷 ) between the mountains are the places where strong winds are likely to form. 1. The underlined word “derail” most probably means “________” . A. e to an end B. crash into another train C. e off the track D. catch fire 2. By saying the underlined sentence, the author may want to ________. A. warn us not to walk in sandstorms B. give us an example of a sandstorm C. advise us t