Question

Read the text and put the phrases where they belong. Hurricanes and Tornadoes. A hurricane is a severe storm. To be a hurricane a storm must have (1)_____. People who live around the Pacific Ocean call hurricanes typhoons. People who live in the Indian Ocean call them cyclones. Hurricanes begin (2)_____. They are like giant spinning wheels of storm clouds, wind and rain. The center of a hurricane is a narrow column of air that spins very slowly. This is (3)_____. Here the weather is surprisingly calm with low winds and clear skies. Tornadoes are terrible windstorms. Most of them happens in North America, but (4)______. If hurricanes are strong winds that build up over the sea, (5)____. They happen when large masses of clouds meet. When a tornado touches the ground, it sucks up anything in its path - trees, houses and people. On 04.09.1981 a tornado hit Ancona, a place it Italy. It lifted (6)_____ in to the air and set it down safely 100 meters away. The baby was still sleeping soundly. A) the \"eye\" of the hurricane; B) over warm tropical oceans; C) a baby asleep in its pram; D) wind speed of at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour; E) tornadoes build up over land; F) they can occur anywhere in the world;

Answer 1

3 A) the "eye" of the hurricane;
2 B) over warm tropical oceans;
6 C) a baby asleep in its pram;
1 D) wind speed of at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour;
5 E) tornadoes build up over land;
4 F) they can occur anywhere in the world;

Answer 2

1. D) wind speed of at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour;
2. B) over warm tropical oceans;
3. A) the "eye" of the hurricane;
4. F) they can occur anywhere in the world;
5. E) tornadoes build up over land;
6. C) a baby asleep in its pram.