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Disaster!
Mary McIntosh
1 What do these words mean? Match a number from A with a letter from B.
A
1 earthquake c
2 hurricane e
3 volcano a
4 victim b
5 flood d
B
a a big mountain with a hole in the top; gas, fire and hot rocks sometimes come out of it
b a person who is hurt or killed in a disaster or accident
c a sudden strong shaking of the earth’s surface
d when a lot of water covers land that is usually dry
e a storm with very strong winds
20 marks
A
1 The worst earthquake disaster of the twentieth century was in … d
2 The Asian tsunami started near … a
3 Hurricane Katrina caused floods in … e
4 A deadly gas killed many people in … c
5 The Exxon Valdez caused an oil spill in … b
B
a Sumatra.
b Alaska.
c Bhopal.
d Tangshan.
e New Orleans.
20 marks
20 marks
A B
1 The Chernobyl reactor exploded in …d a 2003.
2 The plague came to Eyam village in …c b 1995.
3 The Columbia space shuttle exploded in c 1665.
…a d 1986.
4 Vesuvius erupted in …e e AD 79.
5 A terrible earthquake hit Kobe in …b
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Who travelled around the world to talk about the Bhopal disaster? …………………
(a)Pliny the Younger
(b) Tilly Smith
(c) Christopher Wren
(d) Sunil Kumar Verna
(a) Borneo
(b) Madagascar
(c) Sumatra
(d) Sri Lanka
4 People in the city of New Orleans live _____ below sea level.
(a) one metre
(b) two metres
(c) ten metres
(d) twenty metres
5 The Great Fire of London started in a shop which sold _____.
(a) cheese
(b) meat
(c) fish
(d) bread
6 The Titanic was sailing towards _____.
(a) New York
(b) New Orleans
(c) Miami
(d) Southampton
8 The world heard about the Chernobyl disaster from the country of _____.
(a) Germany
(b) Denmark
(c) Sweden
(d) Norway
10 HIV/Aids is a serious problem in the part of Africa which is _____ of the Sahara.
(a) north
(b) south
(c) east
(d) west
12 In the tsunami an Indonesian man called Erwin helped to save _____ from a
river.
(a) a young girl
(b) a young boy
(c) an old woman
(d) an old man
13 Tilly Smith knew the signs of the tsunami because she had learned about it
_____.
(a) from a friend
(b) at home
(c) at school
(d) at university
14 For many days _____ led the fight to stop the Great Fire of London.
(a) Thomas Farynor
(b) Samuel Pepys
(c) Sir Thomas Bludworth
(d) King Charles
16 Sunil Kumar Verma travelled all over the world to give talks about the _____.
(a) Asian tsunami
(b) Chernobyl disaster
(c) Bhopal disaster
(d) Exxon Valdez disaster
18 Captain Jeff Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez had a history of _____ problems.
(a) money
(b) health
(c) eating
(d) drinking
19 After Chernobyl, Hanna Kozlova took her _____Viktor to France for an operation.
(a) father
(b) grandfather
(c) son
(d) brother
23 After Hurricane Katrina _____ per cent of New Orleans was under water.
(a) sixty
(b) seventy
(c) eighty
(d) ninety
24 The ship the Carpathia saved _____ people after the Titanic disaster.
(a) 268
(b) 705
(c) 1,550
(d) 2,202
25 On the morning after the Bhopal disaster, 20,000 people went to the _____.
(a) hospital
(b) train station
(c) chemical factory
(d) airport
26 In January 2003, the space shuttle Columbia took off on its _____ flight.
(a) first
(b) second
(c) tenth
(d) twenty-eighth
27 The Exxon Valdez was the worst _____ disaster in American history.
(a) human
(b) environmental
(c) nuclear
(d) fire
28 At the Chernobyl reactor, the radiation rose to 30,000 roentgen in one _____.
(a) minute
(b) hour
(c) day
(d) week
30 In 2007, _____ million people around the world were living with HIV.
(a) four
(b) fourteen
(c) twenty-four
(d) forty
33 very large
(a) hard
(b) heavy
(c) high
(d) huge
36 to go down under the water; a ship does this when it has a hole in the side
(a) sink
(b) fall
(c) drop
(d) spread
39 a very small insect that can jump; it bites animals and people
(a) flea
(b) frog
(c) rat
(d) bird
40 a big mountain with a hole in the top where fire and gas sometimes come out
(a) reactor
(b) power station
(c) hill
(d) volcano
44 When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans many people moved to the _____.
(a) university
(b) station
(c) Superdome
(d) airport
46 The Titanic was found under the sea in _____ by Dr Robert Ballard.
(a) 1945
(b) 1965
(c) 1985
(d) 2005
49 The Exxon Valdez had a hole in its side because it hit _____.
(a) an iceberg
(b) some rocks
(c) an island
(d) another ship
2 1 d
2 a
3 e
4 c
5 b
4 1 d
2 c
3 a
4 e
5 b
5 a F f F
b T g T
c T h F
d F i T
e F j T
People
11 b
12 a
13 c
14 d
15 a
16 c
17 b
18 d
19 c
20 a
Facts
21 c
22 d
23 c
24 b
25 a
26 d
27 b
28 b
29 a
30 d
Events
41 c
42 d
43 a
44 c
45 b
46 c
47 d
48 a
49 b
50 d