Reading Task 1. Read the article and fill in the gaps (1-6) with the missing information (A-F)
A We can't stop the disasters
B. It came in 2007
C. if there was a cyclone warning
D. But because of the children's warnings
E. as emergency shelters
F. of the twentieth century
Fighting the cyclones
Every year, natural disasters affect about 250 million people and global warming is making
droughts, floods and avalanches more common.
(1), but we can reduce the number of
people who die in them
In 1970, cyclone Bhola in Bangladesh, killed about 500,000 people. It was one of the worst
natural disasters
(2). In 1991, the even stronger Cyclone Gorky hit the country. This time,
people could use special school building,
(3. Unfortunately, many women and children
didn't go to them and around 140,000 people drowned
After this, emergency volunteers and teachers had to talk to children every week about the things
which they should do
They didn't have to wait many years for the next big cyclone. (6 twelve hours before
Cyclone Sidr reached land, a Bangladeshi scientist in the USA calculated the exact areas of danger on a
computer. The emergency volunteers in the villages spread the warning fast
Ten-year-old Rupa Begum and her friends ran to all their neighbours homes. All the buildings
in the village were destroyed in the cyclone except for the school shelter
(6), everyone in
the village survived.
With modem technology, planning and education, we don't have to lose huge numbers of lives
i natural disasters.

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