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2 In 1995, there was a terrible earthquake in the
Japanese city of _____.
a □ Kobe b □ Kyoto c □ Tokyo d □ Nagoya
3 The Asian tsunami started 160 kilometres west
of the island of _____.
a □ Borneo b □ Madagascar c □ Sumatra
d □ Sri Lanka
4 People in the city of New Orleans live _____
below sea level.
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a □ one metre b □ two metres c □ ten metres
d □ twenty metres
5 The Great Fire of London started in a shop
which sold _____.
TEST
a □ cheese b □ meat c □ fish d □ bread
6 The Titanic was sailing towards _____.
a □ New York b □ New Orleans c □ Miami
d □ Southampton
7 Bhopal is in the middle of _____.
a □ Indonesia b □ India c □ Sri Lanka
d □ Bangladesh
8 The world heard about the Chernobyl disaster
from the country of _____.
a □ Germany b □ Denmark c □ Sweden
d □ Norway
9 Eyam is a _____ in the north of England.
a □ small village b □ large town c □ big city
d □ long river
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
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People
Choose the best answer.
11 _____ wrote a detailed diary about the eruption
of Vesuvius in AD 79.
a □ Pliny the Elder b □ Pliny the Younger
c □ Virgil d □ Homer
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
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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
15 On the night of the Titanic disaster Captain
Smith _____.
a □ went to a dinner party b □ read in the
library c □ played the piano d □ looked for
icebergs
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
17 Christa McAuliffe was chosen from 11,000
_____ to go into space.
a □ doctors b □ teachers c □ scientists
d □ astronauts
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
20 In 1665, George Vicars died from the plague
after he was bitten by a _____.
a □ flea b □ rat c □ dog d □ horse
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Facts
Choose the best answer.
21 In AD 79, _____ people lived in Pompeii.
a □ 200 b □ 2,000 c □ 20,000 d □ 200,000
22 The first Tangshan earthquake measured _____
on the Richter scale.
a □ 2.8 b □ 4.8 c □ 6.2 d □ 8.2
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
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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
29 In 1666, _____ of the population of England
died of the plague.
a □ one quarter b □ one third c □ half
d □ three-quarters
30 In 2007, _____ million people around the world
were living with HIV.
a □ four b □ fourteen c □ twenty-four
d □ forty
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Vocabulary
Choose the best answer.
31 the grey powder that remains after a fire
a □ earth b □ ash c □ mud d □ sand
32 when a lot of water covers land that is usually
dry
a □ flood b □ earthquake c □ eruption
d □ plague
33 very large
a □ hard b □ heavy c □ high d □ huge
34 a deep hole in the ground from which people get
water
a □ beach b □ river c □ well d □ port
35 to save somebody from danger
a □ protect b □ rescue c □ suffer d □ panic
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
37 a very large piece of ice in the sea
a □ ocean b □ island c □ iceberg
d □ oil spill
38 a very sad event or situation which often
involves death
a □ celebration b □ tragedy c □ experiment
d □ operation
39 a very small insect that can jump; it bites
animals and people
a □ flea b □ frog c □ rat d □ bird
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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
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Events
Choose the best answer.
41 After the second eruption of Vesuvius,
Herculaneum was covered by _____.
a □ water b □ hot fire and gases c □ hot ash
and mud d □ big stones and trees
42 In Qinglong, government workers organised
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_____ and saved 200,000 people from the
earthquake.
a □ buses b □ cars c □ hospitals d □ tents
43 After the 1995 Japanese earthquake _____
TEST
spread quickly everywhere.
a □ fire b □ water c □ disease d □ gas
44 When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans many
people moved to the _____.
a □ university b □ station c □ Superdome
d □ airport
45 After the Great Fire, the city of London was
_____.
a □ darker and more dangerous b □ cleaner
and healthier c □ smaller and poorer
d □ bigger and richer
46 The Titanic was found under the sea in _____
by Dr Robert Ballard.
a □ 1945 b □ 1965 c □ 1985 d □ 2005
47 The deadly gas escaped from the Bhopal factory
_____.
a □ at lunchtime b □ in the afternoon
c □ in the early evening d □ at night
48 The bodies of the Challenger crew were found
in _____.
a □ the Atlantic Ocean b □ the Pacific Ocean
c □ Florida d □ Texas
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
50 World HIV / Aids Day is celebrated every year
on 1 _____.
a □ September b □ October c □ November
d □ December
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