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On July 25, a Japanese-owned but Panama-flagged bulk carrier, which had been carrying 200 tons of diesel and3,800 tons of fuel oil, 37ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.The crew was rescued but the ship remained at sea for nearly two weeks, as the authorities 38________  a 550-yard-long fence around the vessel and hundreds of booms. They initially said no spill had been detected. Butbunker oil leaked from the ship on Aug. 6, and the vessel broke apart on Aug. 15. Three days later, two of the, The authorities ship's officers were arrested by the Mauritian authorities and charged with unsafe 39________ The authorities declared a "state of environmental emergency" and said they were working with experts from France, Japan,India and the United Nations to 40________  the spill. The number of dead dolphins that bave washed ashoreafter the oil spill has risen to 39. Greenpeace has called for an urgent investigation to determine whether the oilspill was killing the marine mammals.
【題組】37. The meaning of ran aground in the sentence is closest to ________ . 
(A) was stranded
(B) was suffered
(C) was suffocated
(D) was estranged