Nightmare journey

For Jonathan Chealsey his worst traveling experience was several years ________ (1) driving from Birmingham to London in an awful ________ (2). Jonathan had his children in the car as he fought his way through the _________(3) blizzard at a snail's pace. He was on the road for more than six hours instead of the usual hour and a half.

It was really quite frightening. One of the children had to walk in front of the car to see if there was_________(4) on the road ahead because visibility was so bad. They had to take diversions as roads were__________ (5) and at times they had the feeling that they were never going to get home. They were_________(6) incredibly slowly for__________(7) of the time because they just couldn't see what was a couple of metres ahead. The snow just kept falling and the reports on the radio were telling of the___________ (8) of the weather but they felt they had to keep going. _________ (9), they had enough warm clothes and they arrived safely in the end. Only _________ (10) Jonathan realised it had been one of those situations that could have ended so differently.

Exercise 4. Fill the gaps in the text with the suitable word from the box. Each word can be used only once.

earlier exploded flight instead into recovering survivor taken wreck one

Luckiest Man Alive

Jet disaster _________ (1) Pierre Lota was the luckiest man alive that morning. The 45-year-old businessman stepped unhurt from the _______ (2) of an airbus just five hours after he had crashed his car on a French motorway.

A crash expert said: 'He must be the luckiest man on earth. He was ________ (3) from his car crash when the plane went down." Mr. Lota was __________ (4) of nine people who survived when Air Inter Flight IT 5148 crashed __________ (5) a mountain and __________ (6) five minutes from landing. He was driving to Lyon on Monday to catch an __________ (7) flight when his car left the motorway. He was __________ (8) to hospital but the x-rays showed no bones had been broken and he continued his journey.

When he reached Lyon airport, he knew he had missed his __________ (9) but he boarded Flight 5148 __________ (10). Fifty-five minutes later the plane smashed into the side of the mountain.

Exercise 5. Fill the gaps in the text with the suitable word from the box. Each word can be used only once.

about inhabitants

crash into

dark journal

had strong

heading tired

Disaster at Sea

About 80 years ago, a Dutch ship was sailing near the North Pole; it was ________ (1) for Blacklead Island. On board a ship there was a scientist, Edgar Greenhead, who __________ (2) worked on the island for many years. He had been conducting research __________ (3) the life of the local __________ (4). Greenhead had been away on holiday and now he was returning back to the island to go on with his work.

At about midnight, Greenhead felt very __________ (5) as he had been writing his __________ (6) all day. After having said goodnight to the captain, he went down to his cabin. Outside there was a ____________ (7) wind, and the waves were crashing onto the side of the ship. Greenhead was just ____________ (8) ready to lie down on his berth when he suddenly heard a great ___________ (9) He dashed up on deck and although it was ___________ (10) he could see that the ship had run onto the iceberg.

Exercise 6. Fill the gaps in the text with the suitable word from the box. Each word can be used only once.

from filtering time use nightmare out taken helplessly tasted violent

A British family had to eat seaweed to stay alive as their boat was drifting ____________ (1) for three days on stormy seas.

A two hour pleasure trip turned into a __________ (2) for Clifford Symons, his wife Jane, and seven-year-old son Mick, when their motorboat ran ________ (3) of petrol. And all the ___________ (4) they were only eleven miles from the crowded holiday beaches of Mallorca. Clifford said afterwards: “We know what it’s like to face death – a horrible death at that.”

The family ran out of fuel on their way back home from a round-the-bay trip on Saturday. Clifford said the winds had become very _________ (5) and had carried them out to sea. All what the family had __________ (6) with them was one bottle of orange juice.

On Monday they were dying of thirst. They tried ___________ (7) seawater so that they could drink it but it didn’t work. Then they ate seaweed – and it ___________ (8) awful. Just as they had given up hope, a Spanish fishing boat arrived and picked them up. The family were all suffering _________ (9) thirst and hunger. Clifford has put his boat up for sale. “I didn’t _________ (10) to be afraid of the water, but I think I’ll stay on dry land for a while,” he says.

Exercise 7. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. Tick the correct line and write the wrong word next to the number.

Last night the whole village witnessed a horrific plane crash. The wreckage fire was so strong as that it was fought by the fire brigade while surviving passengers were been rescued by ambulance men. All the survivors were taken to the hospital in seven ambulances that had appeared on the place of the accident. It is not known what it caused the plane to crash. Many survivors have already been interviewed by its newspaper and TV reporters. The Civil Aviation Authority has already been launched a full investigation. It is said that a bomb may have been put up on board the aircraft. The vital information is hoped to be provided by with the aircraft's "black box", but it hasn't been found yet. The search is being continued.

1__________ 2__________ 3__________ 4__________ 5__________ 6__________ 7__________ 8__________ 9__________ 10_________ 11 _________ 12__________

Exercise 8. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.