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Written Comprehension (20 points)

A News Website
1 Read the headlines and the news articles. Then answer the questions that follow. (10 points)

HOME | NEWS | WEATHER | SPORT

Daily News HURRICANE HARVEY NEWS

HEADLINES – 29th August, 2017

• Harvey: Category 4 hurricane worst in 50 years
• Hurricane Harvey hits Texas coast
• Harvey causes floods in Louisiana and Texas
• Flood kills woman in car
• Kind citizens help hurricane victims 

TEXAS RECEIVES CLEAN WATER

The Anheuser-Busch company in Georgia usually
makes beer. But yesterday, their workers weren’t
doing their usual jobs. Instead of filling cans with
alcoholic drinks, they were filling them with clean
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drinking water. People in the disaster areas haven’t
got clean drinking water, so the company is sending
them more than 155,000 cans of water. This wasn’t
the first time this company stopped production to help
disaster victims. Last year, they sent water to the
victims of California’s forest fires.

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MATTRESS MACK OPENS HIS DOORS
Many people lost their homes in the hurricane and
didn’t have places to sleep. Jim “Mattress Mack”
McIngvale sells furniture in Houston, Texas. He has
15 got two large furniture shops and he opened the
doors to these shops and invited victims to come to
his shops to sleep. More than 750 people were
sleeping on chairs, sofas, beds and mattresses in
these shops after the hurricane.
GENEROUS FAMILY FEEDS RESCUE WORKERS
20 Rescue teams and volunteers were working hard to
save people from the floods. Weak and hungry from
hours of work, they needed food to continue. There
weren’t any restaurants or shops open, so Matthew
Otero decided to open his doughnut shop to help
25 them. There wasn’t any electricity, so Otero used an
electric generator. He and his family were working
day and night to make coffee and doughnuts for the
rescue teams and other people in the area.
BRAVE PEOPLE SAVE LIVES
Today, many brave citizens arrived with boats to pull
30 people out of the water. CNN reporter Ed Lavandera
was also travelling on a boat in the floods. During his
news report, a woman called to him and asked for
help to rescue her parents. He immediately stopped
reporting and helped to pull the family into his boat.
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1. What is the common theme of all the reports and headlines?

2. What was happening at the Georgia company the day before the report?

3. How many people did Mattress Mack help and how did he help them?

4. According to the report, how did the rescue workers feel?

5. What is Lavandera’s job and why was he in the area of the floods?

2 Complete the sentences. (5 points)

1. There was a very bad storm about years before the report.
2. There were floods in and .
3. The disaster areas received of water from .
4. Otero gave the rescue workers , although he didn’t have .
5. A woman asked Lavandera to help because he .

3 Find the words in the text to match the definitions below. (5 points)
1. a type of alcoholic drink (lines 1-11)
2. metal containers (lines 1-11)
3. soft part of a bed (lines 12-20)
4. groups of people working together (lines 21-30)
5. people living in a particular town, city or country (lines 31-38)

Written Production (10 points)

Task 1: A Narrative
Write a narrative. Imagine there was a flood in your street.
Describe what happened, what people did and how you felt.

Task 2: A Message
You didn’t go to school today because you crashed your bike
into a tree. Write a text message to your friend about it. Tell your
friend what happened and what you did.

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Oral Comprehension (10 points)
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An Informal Conversation
1 Listen to the conversation between Don and Fay. Then answer the questions. (5 points)
1. What is unusual about the weather?

2. When was the disaster in Iran?

3. How much snow fell in some places?

4. Why didn’t the rescue workers save people?

5. What place has got some of the lowest temperatures in Britain?

2 Listen again and complete the sentences. (5 points)

1. Don knows about the disaster in Iran from .
2. The disaster continued for about .
3. There wasn’t any or fresh in some areas of Iran.
4. The temperature in some areas of Iran was during the storm.
5. Fay and Don can’t watch the weather forecast because .

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Oral Production (10 points)

Comparing Pictures

Student A
1 Answer your partner’s questions about the pictures below.
a b

2 Ask your partner questions about his / her pictures and complete the chart.
what / pictures / of
can / describe
pictures / same place
what / differences
what / similarities

Student B
1 Ask your partner questions about his / her pictures and complete the chart.
what / pictures / of
can / describe
pictures / same place
what / differences
what / similarities

2 Answer your partner’s questions about the pictures below.

a b
h
h
b

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