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hurricane, landslide, solar flare, drought, 1. Thanks to technology advances, some of
tornado, tsunami, hail, wildfire, etc. the weather disasters such as hurricanes

E LISTENING and blizzards can be predicted.
XIII. 2. In some cases, wildfires can be caused by
lightning.
1. earthquake 2. volcanoes
3. The three injured men had been taken to
3. hurricane 4. tornado
the hospital by some local people by the
5. flood
time the ambulance came.
XIV.
4. The children had left the house before the
1. house collapsed.
1. immediate 2. facilities 5. After the latest landslide in Sapa, a

3. homeless 4. starved training session was held by the local
5. refugees government to teach people how to
2. protect themselves in some natural
disasters.
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T

Listening transcript:

The year 1931 was a big one in Chinese Review 1 BASIC (Units 7, 8, 9)
history. By August of that year, the three big
rivers had all flooded so badly that most of A PHONETICS
central China was submerged. Over 100,000 I.
people were killed in the immediate floods,
but the survivors had problems of their own. 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A
The floods killed crops, washed out grain II.
storage facilities, leveled houses, and 1. D 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. D
destroyed roads. Many rural communities B VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
were homeless and stranded without food, III.
and without any way for aid to reach them.
The flooding was so bad that the ground was 1. e 2. g 3. a 4. h
still underwater when fall arrived, which 5. c 6. b 7. d 8. f
meant that farmers couldn‟t even plant crops IV.
for the next year. To make matters worse, the 1. come up with 2. dumping
government of China was so disorganized 3. substances 4. improve
and weak from the wars of the last decades, 5. culture 6. injuries
that they couldn‟t gather together the
resources and people needed to save the V.
stranded villages. 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. D

Ultimately, this is why the death toll was so 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. B 10. C
high. Millions of people starved to death, VI.
disease swept through weakened 1. would be 2. would happen
communities, and homeless refugees were 3. will travel 4. didn‟t throw
stuck without shelter. In some cases, the
situation was so bad that people resorted to 5. were 6. will turn off
cannibalism, eating the dead just to survive. 7. have never witnessed
F WRITING 8. had been signed
XV. 9. begins – lasts 10. is inserted
VII.

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