Vocabulary - Environment 4
Index
Fill the gaps using the words given. Use each word only once.
ANSWERS
survivors | injuring | cracks | struck | landslides | victims | slopes | heavy | nature | disasters
Fatal Collapse
Catastrophe isn't supposed to strike twice in the same place. But after months of
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rains two
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came down a mountain in Eastern Venezuela on Saturday within hours of each other, killing at least twenty five helpless people and
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many more in the town of Santa Cruz. Many of the
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were rescue workers looking for some
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of the first landslide, which
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...
earlier that day. Local people say that they saw
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in the
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before the second slide. Now they doubt if the will ever live peacefully in the shadow of that cruel mountain. Some feel that
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is angry at them and the sequence of
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is its clear sign.
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Answers
1)
heavy rain (col)
a lot of rain
2)
landslide (n)
a piece of land that falls down from the side of a hill
3)
injure (v)
to harm or damage
4)
victim (n)
a person who suffers death or harm as a result of a disaster
5)
survivor (n)
a person who survives a disaster
6)
struck (strike) (v)
to happen suddenly and have a damaging effect on
7)
crack (n)
a line on a surface where sth is beginning to break apart
8)
slope (n)
the side of a hill
9)
nature (n)
the forces that control the physical world and life itself
10)
disaster (n)
a terrible event, especially one that causes great damage