Japan is beginning the cleanup after Friday’s (1) ____ earthquake and tsunami. The death (2) ____ is currently at 573 with hundreds more people missing. Most of the people died in the (3) ____ tsunami, which was up to ten metres high. Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency says the number of destroyed buildings has (4) ____ 3,400, but that is expected to rise. In the quake-hit areas, around 5.57 million households (5) ____ have no electricity, while more than one million homes have had their water supply cut (6) ____.
The mega-earthquake is the seventh largest (7) ____ recorded. It hit northeast Japan at 2:46 p.m. with a magnitude (8) ____ 8.9 on the Richter scale. It was felt as far away as Beijing, China. The following tsunami has completely (9) ____ away large parts of Japan’s north. The damage is (10) ____ tens of billions of dollars. Fifty-three countries in the Pacific Rim were put on tsunami alert. Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said his (11) ____ focus now is to stop a nuclear power plant from overheating. Scientists released (12) ____ steam from the plant to reduce the pressure inside it.
Put the correct words from this table into the article.
| 1. | (a) | death | (b) | dead | (c) | deadly |
| 2. | (a) | toll | (b) | doll | (c) | roll |
| 3. | (a) | largish | (b) | massive | (c) | tiny |
| 4. | (a) | reaches | (b) | reached | (c) | reaching |
| 5. | (a) | current | (b) | currant | (c) | currently |
| 6. | (a) | off | (b) | on | (c) | in |
| 7. | (a) | ever | (b) | never | (c) | even |
| 8. | (a) | by | (b) | at | (c) | of |
| 9. | (a) | washing | (b) | washed | (c) | washes |
| 10. | (a) | on | (b) | to | (c) | in |
| 11. | (a) | main | (b) | mainly | (c) | mains |
| 12 | (a) | radio | (b) | radioactive | (c) | radiate |
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ReplyDeleteJapan is beginning the cleanup after Friday’s deadly earthquake and tsunami. The death toll is currently at 573 with hundreds more people missing. Most of the people died in the massive tsunami, which was up to ten metres high. Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency says the number of destroyed buildings has reached 3,400, but that is expected to rise. In the quake-hit areas, around 5.57 million households currently have no electricity, while more than one million homes have had their water supply cut off.
The mega-earthquake is the seventh largest ever recorded. It hit northeast Japan at 2:46 p.m. with a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter scale. It was felt as far away as Beijing, China. The following tsunami has completely washed away large parts of Japan’s north. The damage is in tens of billions of dollars. Fifty-three countries in the Pacific Rim were put on tsunami alert. Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said his main focus now is to stop a nuclear power plant from overheating. Scientists released radioactive steam from the plant to reduce the pressure inside it.