Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and to ruins the city took on a new loo

问题补充：

Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and to ruins, the city took on a new look.

A. reducing

B. reduced

C. being reduced

D. having reduced

答案：

A. reducing

B. reduced

(答案→)C. being reduced

D. having reduced

解析：考查动名词做宾语。句意：在遭受大地震，沦为废墟之后不久，这座城市就呈现出新的面貌。Shortly after在……之后不久，后面接动名词，横线处填的词和suffering是并列的，根据短语reduce the city to ruins（使城市沦为废墟），可见reduce与逻辑主语the city构成被动关系，排除A，D；确定答案为being reduced。故选C。