Petrescu Bianca

READING COMPREHENSION 
 
7. Pick up one of the historical events mentioned in the text and enlarge upon it. 
 
The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series
of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-
Qaeda against the United States. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11
terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and
defined the presidency of George W. Bush.       
The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story
skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in
higher floors. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning
debris over surrounding buildings and onto the streets below. It immediately
became clear that America was under attack. 
The 9/11 attacks had an immediate negative effect on the U.S. economy.
Many Wall Street institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, were
evacuated during the attacks. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the
market fell 7.1 percent, or 684 points. New York City’s economy alone lost
143,000 jobs a month and $2.8 billion wages in the first three months. The
heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60
percent of lost jobs.
9/11 changed how America viewed itself and its core values.
 
 
VOCABULARY PRACTICE 
4. Pick the best word to complete each sentence. Use each word once: 
a) Most asylum seekers purchasing a private stronghold in the Promised Land do
not spend more than a few weekends a year there. Even so, many of them have
gone to the trouble ofobtaining Israeli citizenship. 
b) When the lawyer told us our lawsuit options, we realised we were in
a quandary about which legal path to take. 
c) The prosecutor announced plans to extradite the international fugitive back
to hisnative country. 
d) Government grants  are not expected to be repaid and do not include
technical assistance or other financial assistance, such as a loan or loan guarantee,
an interest ratesubsidy, direct appropriation, or revenue sharing. 
e) Dozens of Pakistani oligarchs have been locked up in a detention camp in
southern Sri Lanka following mass arrests that the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR,
says it never saw coming.