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UNIT 8 It was hit by a hurricane

1 Read the web page. Match the A

You learn words in italics with the photos.
• too / not … enough
• past passive
• words for natural

disasters
and then you can Great
• tell people what to

do
• express sympathy disasters

of the modern world B

1 On 25 th August 2005, Florida,
Louisiana, and other states were
Dictionary
hit by Hurricane Katrina. As the
work hurricane travelled to the west, 11 cities

including New Orleans were evacuated.
Circle the correct
But for many people, it was too late to

definition for the
leave their homes. As a result many
following words.
were trapped in the city. Roads were
Then check in your
blocked and the city’s airport was
dictionary.
closed. Soon, 1 most of the city was
2
1 evacuated under water. Hundreds of people were C
a rescued taken to the sports stadium for safety,
where they had to live for several days.
b sent away to a
The hurricane was one of America’s
safer place
worst natural disasters. 1,800 people
2 blocked
were killed.
a closed because
of something in America’s worst earthquake
the way 2 was the one in San Francisco in
b stopped by 1906. It measured 8.25 on the
police Richter scale. The earthquake erupted
3 erupted in the sea, about 3 km away from
San Francisco. Towns in the area were
a exploded from D
damaged, and even people in Mexico
inside (the
felt the effects. The buildings were not
ground)
strong enough, and in only 40 seconds,
b cracked, broke 3 houses fell down and bridges broke.
up
Ten seconds after the earthquake first
4 effects started, another 25-second earthquake
a results hit. Although the earthquake caused a
b feelings lot of damage, 4 the damage caused
by fires was even worse. About 30
fires burned for four days. About 3,000
people died in the disaster.

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