Part 1. Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere in the rest of the text. The Great Quake
Today, in most industrialized countries in the world, buildings are designed to withstand various, unexpected natural disasters. Safety measures are installed in modern-day designs to help contain the spread of fire, and design engineers make sure newer structures are deliberately planned to hold against the violent shifting of the earth during an 1__________ earthquake. However, such deliberate design and planning was not the case during the early 1900s.
On April 18, 1906, in the morning hours of the day, the citizens of San Francisco, California, were witnesses to an 2_________ so monumental the tremors were felt as far north as Oregon. Neither the city nor its people were prepared for what would happen next: the devastation of their 3__________.
The actual earthquake only lasted two minutes. Of course, the violent tremors must have seemed much longer to the actual eyewitnesses, but the fires that came after the earthquake 4________ for nearly three days. The enormous loss from the disaster included the lives of at least five hundred 5________, and an estimated three thousand acres of the city were destroyed. This 6________ is often called simply the “Great Quake” because of the vast destruction that occurred.
Part 2. Read the texts 7-14 and the statements A-J. Decide which text matches with the situation described in the statements. Each statement can be used ONCE only. There are TWO extra statements which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the answer sheet. A) This course will be dedicated to Phonetics of English.
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