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28/07/2021 - Global Problems

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of "famine"? Choose a suitable picture below.

a)
b)
c)
d)
2.

What is the disease related to this picture?

(a)  

3.

Can the word "epidemic" describe a particular problem that seriously affects many people at the same time or for diseases only?

For example:

1. a crime epidemic

2. an unemployment epidemic

a)

Yes. It's totally okay.

b)

No. It can't. Use the word for diseases only.

4.

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; often caused by sexual contact or contact with contaminated blood.

What is the meaning of "contaminated"?

a)

low-density

b)

rare

c)

hard to coagulate

d)

poisonous or not pure

5.

A serious infection of the bowels caused by drinking infected water or eating infected food, causing diarrhoea, vomiting, and often death. What is it?

(a)  

6.

People who have escaped from their own country because of a war or other disasters are called?

(a)  

7.

A person injured or killed in a serious accident or war is called?

a)

an abbot

b)

a casualty

c)

a rioter

d)

a gipsy

8.

Bệnh thương hàn tiếng Anh là gì?

(a)  

9.

Rocks and earth moving suddenly down a slope. What is the problem?

(a)  

10.

When a volcano (a)   , it explodes and flames and rocks come out of it.

11.

What is the meaning of "to be feared dead"?

a)

to be scared to death

b)

clinical death

c)

sudden death

d)

to be missing and people are worried that they are dead

12.

A big earthquake ........... the city at noon yesterday.

a)

shook

b)

shake

c)

shoke

d)

shock

13.

Ten years ago, the flu epidemic (a)   rapidly throughout the country.

14.

"A hard nut to crack" is an idiom used to describe what personality trait?

a)

obstinate

b)

obsolete

c)

insatiable

d)

controversial

15.

Which word is pronounced differently from others?

a)

drama

b)

grammar

c)

damage

d)

mammal

16.

inexhaustible (adj)

a)

detailed and complete

b)

not exhausted; not completely used up

c)

finite

d)

existing in very great amounts that will never be finished