Задание

Complete the extracts from newspaper articles with the correct words from the box.

a.The area around Boulder, Colorado, has not seen rain for nine months. During the long……………, water supplies have been brought in by lorry ...

b.A massive………. shook Los Angeles yesterday, destroying hundreds of buildings and a road bridge. It measured 7.2 on the Richter Scale ...

c.A twenty-eight-year-old mother of two was in hospital last night after she was struck by………. The woman has slight burns on her arm. 'I was taking the dogs for a walk in the park when the storm started ……..'

d.Scientists say that Mount Etna will erupt in the next few days. Thick smoke started to pour from the …………….this morning and ...

e.Residents of Lewes, in East Sussex, had to swim across the main street yesterday. The………caused by recent heavy rain is the worst for 150 years.

f.A………..in the Caribbean island of Nevis has killed fourteen people and left thousands homeless. 'The wind blew the roof off my house,' one survivor said.

DROUGHT

EARTHQUAKE

LIGHTNING

VOLCANO

FLOOD

HURRICANE