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| 1. Choose the meaning closest
to 'variety' in the text |
| a) |
entertainment |
| b) |
difference |
| c) |
kind |
| d) |
wave |
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| 2. Choose the meaning closest
to 'triggered' in the text |
| a) |
launched |
| b) |
ended |
| c) |
created |
| d) |
initiated |
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| 3. Choose the meaning closest
to 'volume' in the text |
| a) |
sound level |
| b) |
quantity |
| c) |
area |
| d) |
container |
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| 4. Choose the meaning closest
to 'commonly' in the text |
| a) |
sometimes |
| b) |
often |
| c) |
usually |
| d) |
never |
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| 5. Choose the meaning closest
to 'unwary' in the text |
| a) |
alert |
| b) |
awake |
| c) |
sleeping |
| d) |
not alert |
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| 6. Choose the meaning closest
to 'toss' in the text |
| a) |
turn |
| b) |
throw |
| c) |
slide |
| d) |
shoot |
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| 7. Choose the meaning closest
to 'obliteration' in the text |
| a) |
damage |
| b) |
great damage |
| c) |
partial destruction |
| d) |
total destruction |
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| 8. Choose the meaning closest
to 'swamp' in the text |
| a) |
turn into soft ground |
| b) |
destroy |
| c) |
flood |
| d) |
damage |
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| 9. Choose the meaning closest
to 'buckling' in the text |
| a) |
rising |
| b) |
falling |
| c) |
flattening |
| d) |
bending |
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| 10. Choose the meaning closest
to 'converge' in the text |
| a) |
come together |
| b) |
drift apart |
| c) |
almost touch |
| d) |
drop |
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| 11. Choose the meaning closest
to 'plunges' in the text |
| a) |
rise |
| b) |
fall |
| c) |
drop suddenly |
| d) |
rise suddenly |
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| 12. Choose the meaning closest
to 'instant' in the text |
| a) |
second |
| b) |
minute |
| c) |
hour |
| d) |
day |
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| 13. Choose the meaning closest
to 'mirrors' in the text |
| a) |
is higher than |
| b) |
is different from |
| c) |
is the same as |
| d) |
is lower than |
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| 14. What is the source of the
tsunamis power? |
| a) |
a lot of water |
| b) |
great speed |
| c) |
a large amount of stationary water |
| d) |
a large amount of moving water |
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| 15. To what extent are tsunamis
connected to tides? |
| a) |
a lot |
| b) |
a little |
| c) |
a bit |
| d) |
not much at all |
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| 16. What kind of ripples does
a tsunami create? |
| a) |
eccentric |
| b) |
eurocentric |
| c) |
concentric |
| d) |
electronic |
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| 17. When did the most destructive
tsunami in recorded history take place? |
| a) |
in the last decade of the 19th century |
| b) |
in the first decade of the 20th century |
| c) |
in the second last decade of the 20th century |
| d) |
in the second last decade of the 19th century |
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| 18. How many people died? |
| a) |
three thousand six hundred |
| b) |
thirty-six thousand |
| c) |
three hundred and sixty thousand |
| d) |
three million six hundred thousand |
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| 19. Has anyone ever seen a comet
strike cause an tsunami? |
| a) |
yes |
| b) |
no |
| c) |
maybe |
| d) |
we don't know |
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| 20. Are tsunamis of the size shown
in the movie 'Deep Impact" possible? |
| a) |
yes |
| b) |
no |
| c) |
maybe |
| d) |
we don't know |
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| 21. What is the most frequent
cause of tsunamis? |
| a) |
comet strikes |
| b) |
volcanic eruptions |
| c) |
land based earthquakes |
| d) |
earthquakes under the sea |
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| 22. What do you call places where
the drifting plates that make up the lithosphere come together? |
| a) |
reduction zones |
| b) |
induction zones |
| c) |
subduction zones |
| d) |
conduction zones |
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| 23. Which of these zones has not
produced a deadly tsunami in the last ten years? |
| a) |
the one off Chile |
| b) |
the one off Nicaragua |
| c) |
the one off Mexico |
| d) |
the one off India |
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| 24. What was the incidence of
tsunamis in the period 1992-1996? |
| a) |
about 3 a year |
| b) |
about 3 a month |
| c) |
about 4 a year |
| d) |
about 17 a year |
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| 25. What is the last thing to
happen before a tsunami begins? |
| a) |
an undersea earthquake occurs |
| b) |
the sea bottom bends |
| c) |
the surface of the sea takes the shape of the bent sea floor |
| d) |
the surface of the sea flattens |
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