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READING & WRITING

1 READING

a Answer the following questions.
1. What are the names of the natural disasters shown in the newspaper article?
2. Which natural disasters are common in your country?
b Read the newspaper article and match the number of the paragraphs with the disasters given in
the box.

◆ avalanche ◆ landslide ◆ hurricane ◆ flood ◆ volcanic eruption ◆ earthquake ◆ tornado ◆ tsunami

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It generally occurs as a result of a great
amount of heavy rain, but it doesn’t always
occur from heavy rain. In coastal areas,
storms can cause it. Strong winds, hurricanes,
melting ice, or snow can cause them, too.
Sometimes overflowing rivers cause it. It
destroys many roads, farms, and houses.
Many people lose their lives or homes. It has
an economic impact, too. It causes a lot of
damage to the environment. Animals and
plants die or lose their habitat.

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It is a large storm. It begins in the ocean.
It occurs over warm ocean water. Warm
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weather and warm water are the main reasons
for it. It results in floods or fires, and leads to It is a very violent atmospheric storm. It is a whirling
a lot of damage. It blows away many things wind. It can reach up to 300 miles per hour. It
on its way. It causes a lot of financial troubles, forms over warm water. It mostly appears along
too. Many people die and lose their homes the coastline and causes damage to coastal areas.
each year as a result of it. 5

It is shaking of the ground. It can occur everywhere
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in the sea or on the land. It can be violent. After
It occurs because of huge pressure under
the Earth. Lava flows can destroy cities and the main shocks, people can feel small shocks
nature. Explosion happens as a result of (after shocks). Many buildings, roads, or bridges
them. Everywhere gets covered with ash. can collapse. It can cause deaths of many people.
People living close to the area evacuate their It destroys cities. After all these shocks, fires,
homes. But, it also has beneficial effects on diseases, and landslides can occur. Turkey is at the
agriculture. The soil in that area becomes very risk of it all the time because it is located on many
fertile after many years of eruption. fault zones.

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