. . Teacher Scorin oe? Quiz [i Date: —————— A @ Listen to the conversation about a news story. Check (7) true or false for A Bpoints each sentence. (@ points each) True False 1. They often have tornadoes in the Midwest this time of year. C) a ee 2. A tornado hit two stores owned by the same man. Bly el a 3. The store owner was seriously injured ef i 4, A tourist bus was in the area to see the tornado. ooo as B Complete the sentences using the simple past passive form of verbs from the box. B opoints Use each verb only once. point each) break into cause close damage delay feel rescue see steal 1. The airport for five hours because of the fog yesterday. 2, Police reported that several homes over the weekend. 3. Authorities say the recent wildfires ___by lightning. 4, Several computers from the high school. 5. Five cars and a truck____in an accident on the freeway. 6, Achild from a burning building by firefighters. Traffic for hours because of the snowstorm. 8. Arare bird ina local park. 9. Aminor earthquake __ across the city last night € Write sentences about news events, Put the words in parentheses in the correct C 10 poms order. Use the simple past passive with by + agent. @ points each) Example: (destroy / partially / the fire / the restaurant) The restaurant was partially destroyed by the fire 1. (the bad weather / delay / temporarily / many flights) — 2, (the hailstorm / many homes / damage / badly) She 3, (close / the building / emergency workers / temporarily) 5 4, (the flood / completely / destroy / the bridge) = 5. (seriously / the earthquake / electric power / disrupt) —_ TA7G + Unit 12 Quiz © Cambridge Univesity Press 2006 posocopiableD Spoints D Cross out the word that cannot be used to complete each sentence. (1 point each) 1, Arnold was ___ injured in a car accident. _ badly completely severely seriously 2. The mountain was hit by a___ hailstorm. aS flash freak heavy severe 3. The village was __ by an earthquake. a damaged destroyed injured struck 4 was delayed because of the bad weather. 4 An airport ‘The flight Traffic Train service 5. The ___ damaged many trees in the neighborhood. a Ughuning ailstones thunder winds E_ Use the words in parentheses to introduce news. Then match each question E Bpoinis with the correct news item, (1 point each) 1 the news about a. Itdestroyed ——— my sister? (hear) several houses. 2, [just bought anew watch. And b, They're moving 2 (what) ___ next month. 3 about the flash flood c. Hostiit yesterday. Ses in my town? (tell) __ 4 my neighbors? (know) d. She'shavinga baby. 4,____ F. Read the article ‘Then read the statements and check (/) true, false, ar it doesn't say: F 1opoints (2 points each) Generation Gap in the News ‘Arecent survey shows some major differencesin thenews * Younger people are much less likely toread a newspaper. | habits of younger and older Americans: regularly — about 23 percent of people under tity ‘In general younger people spend much lesstime during compared with 60 percent of Americans age sixty-five | the day keeping up with the ns. Americans 2aed and older. On the other hand, younger people are more ightoon through twonty-ourspend aot thy five kel toot thelr news fom online sources. minutes day getting news fom allsources (printed Younger people are not great fans of TV news. Only material online, TV, radio) In contest, Americans aged T8percent of Americans aged eighteen through sixty-five and older spend ninety minutes aday onthe twenty-four sald they watched a nightly news shows on news. a regular basis, compared with 56 percent of Americans | + Younger people ae les likely than older people tostart aged sisty-fve and older. However, the number of the day with the news ~for example, by watching a younger Americans who watch able news channels has morning tak show. However, some 60 percent of young been increasing people sil start thelr morning with some type of news True False It doesn't say. es 1, Younger people dont spend enough time on the news. ‘Very few young Americans start their day with the news, ins watch TV news. ooood ooooa QO 2. Q 3. Many younger people get their news from the Internet. 1] 4. More than half of older Americ a 5 Oo . Younger Americans used to watch cable news more often, out of 50 © Cambridge University Press 2006 phorocopiable Unit 12 Quiz + T-177