Reading literacy Grade 9, school-lyceum 40

Floods … .

• are not caused by people

• never cause serious damage or deaths

• come after fires among natural disasters

• never have bad results

• are the biggest natural disaster

According to the text, causes of floods are

• large lakes and bad roads

• people’s deaths and human error

• melting snow and heavy rains

• drought and dam

• typhoon and earthquake

The most common natural disaster

• strong wind

• heavy rain

• flood

• fire

• earthquake

The false statement

• Scientists can help to reduce the damage

• Heavy rains will result in the lakes overflowing and flooding theneighbourhood

• Floods can result in terrible consequences

• Scientists have tried to predict floods

• Waters can travel some kilometres

A broken human-made dam is compared to …

• a tidal wave

• warmer weather

• a broken ice dam

• overflowing

• a tsunami

A dam is

• a line of water that rises up on the surface of a sea, lake or river

• a situation in which water from a river or heavy rain covers large areas ofland

• a way from one place to another that people can walk along

• physical strength , violence or energy

• a wall built across a river to create a lake or to help to produce electricity

The way unleashed dam waters can travel

• cover the ground in metres of mud and debris

• all the mentioned ways

• drown everything and creature

• crush everything and creature

• they can travel some kilometres

Strong conditions for potential flooding

• all of them

• none of them

• ice-covered rivers

• weak dams

• deep snow

The true statement

• Sudden rise of temperature can’t cause floods

• People are not responsible for floods

• Deep snow alone never causes floods

• Consequences of floods can be upsetting

• Icy rivers don’t cause flooding either

The main idea of the text is …

• to inform the reader about flooding

• to recommend reading the text

• to focus on natural disasters

• to make the reader feel sad

• to entertain the reader