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Question No - 1

Read the following passage, then answer the questions: Today, in most industrialized countries in the world, buildings are designed to withstand various, unexpected natural disasters. Safety measures are installed in modern-day designs to help contain the spread of fire, and design engineers make sure newer structures are deliberately planned to hold against the violent shifting of the earth during an unexpected earthquake. However, such deliberate design and planning was not the case during the early 1900s. On April 18, 1906, in the morning hours of the day, the citizens of San Francisco, California, were witnesses to an earthquake so monumental. The tremors were felt as far north as Oregon. Neither the city nor its people were prepared for what would happen next: the devastations of their city. The actual earthquake only lasted two minutes. Of course, the violent tremors must have seemed much longer to the actual eyewitnesses, but the fires that came after the earthquake lasted for nearly three days. The enormous loss from the disaster included the lives of at least five hundred people, and an estimated three thousand acres of the city were destroyed. This disaster is often called simply the "Great Quake" because of the vast destruction that occurred. Choose the correct answer from a, b,cord: 1)The best sentence that can summarises the last paragraph is........................

1_The kinds of earthquakes that happened in San Francisco

2_The duration and the effects of San Francisco earthquake

3_The preparation the citizens of San Francisco made to face

the earthquake

4_The government stands with its citizens together to encounter the earthquake

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Question No - 2

2) The best title for the passage is.........

1_New buildings can face natural disasters

2_New buildings are designed by natural countries

3_Natural disasters and traditional buildings

4_Natural disasters and industrial countries

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Question No - 3

3) Which would be the best source to learn more about the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906?

1_A personal website by someone who currently resides in San Francisco.

2_A journal written by someone who survived the 1906 earthquake.

3_An atlas showing the epicenter of the 1906 quake.

4_An online encyclopedia entry about earthquakes.

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Question No - 4

4) Another word for the underlined word "vast" in the passage is.............

1_ extensive

2_miniature

3_simultaneous

4_perpetual

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Question No - 5

5) After reading the passage, which sentence is correct about the 1906 earthquake?

1_Flooding was a huge problem after the earthquake.

2_The earthquake left everyone in the city without shelter.

3_People were ill-prepared for any type of disaster in the 1900s.

4_The fires after the earthquake caused major damage to San Francisco.

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Question No - 6

6) Deliberate design and planning began................ .

1_before 1900s

2_exactly in 1900s

3_many years after 1900s

4_1900 years ago.

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Question No - 7

7) According to the information in the passage, what do you think will happen if an earthquake hits San Francisco these days?

1_The city will be less prepared than in 1906.

2_Fires will ravage the city after an earthquake.

3_The city will be better prepared for it.

4_The citizens will refuse to rebuild the city.

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Question No - 8

8) Nowadays, buildings in developed countries are designed to various, unexpected natural disasters.

1_resist

2_assist

3_insist

4_consist

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