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In the News

M.C.Qs
1)When the year began with a two foot snowfall in
______________ , the cause was global warming.
a) Los Angles b) Texas c) Louisiana d) Mississippi
2)Winds of 124 miles an hour shut down nuclear
plants in ______________ and cut power to
hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and
Britain.
a)Scandinavia b)Los Angles c)Louisiana d)Mississippi
3) A lethal heat wave in ______________ killed
more than 20 people in one week.
a) Argentina b) Antarctica c) Arizona d) Africa
4) __________ has spent more than $13 million
since 1998 on an anti-global warming public
relations and lobbying campaign.
a) ExxonMobil b) Servo c) Castrol d) Mobil-DT

5) In 2000, big oil coal scored their biggest electoral

victory yet when ________ was elected President.
a) Barrack Obama
c) George W. Bush

b) Bill Clinton
d) Kennedy

6) In early 2005, a storm knocked out power to

thousands and droppeda record-setting 42.2 inches
of snow on __________.
a) Boston b) Mississippi c) Louisiana d) Loa Angles
7) In _____________ , bombed August 6, 1945, no
warning was given of the air attack, and thus no
escape was possible.
a) Hiroshima b) Nagasaki c) Tokyo d) Pearl Harbour
8) The leaflets were a great help to us. Who said
this?
a) Tomei, survivor in Hiroshima
b) Tomei, survivor in Nagasaki
c) Hibakusha in Hiroshima

d) Hibakusha in Nagasaki
9) I am sorry that I was not taken instead. (Use
too)
a) I am too sorry not to be taken instead.
b) I am too sorry to be taken instead
c) I am too sorry too be taken instead
d) I am too sorry to be taken not instead
10) The leaflets were a great help to us. (Turn into
Exclamatory).
a) What a great help the leaflets was!
b) How a great help the leaflets were!
c) What a great help the leaflets were to us!
d) What a great help the leaflets had been to us!
11) The impact is visible as the mega storm that
covered much of the Gulf of Mexico. (Change the
Degree)

a) The impact is not more visible than the mega

storm that didnt cover much of the Gulf of Mexico.
b) The impact is not less visible than the mega
storm that covered much of the Gulf of Mexico.
c) The impact is not as visible as the mega storm
that covered much of the Gulf of Mexico.
d) The impact is no more visible than the mega
storm that covered much of the Gulf of Mexico.
12) As the atmosphere warms, it generates longer
droughts. (Make it Simple)
a) In spite of the atmosphere warming it generates
longer droughts.
b) the atmosphere warms generating longer
droughts.
c) With the atmosphere warming it generates
longer droughts.
d) With the worming of the atmosphere it
generates longer droughts.

13) Choose the correct antonym of intense

a) Severe b) Deep c) Broad d) Weak
14) Choose the correct synonym of gritty
A Cowardly b) Determined c) Weaky d) Spineless
15) Choose the correct noun form of accelerates
a) Accelerativeness
c) Accelerateful

b) Acceleration
d) Accelerateness