992 VOCABULARY QUIZ 1 (A&B)	Name..........................................

Part A. Recognition (1 each = 15 points)
Write the number of the word next to the correct definition.

1. basin
2. beard	__ used to build houses
3. blinds	__ bowl
4. butcher	__ hair on a man's face
5. brick	__ a gun shoots it
6. bullet
7. basement

1. attractive	
2. average	__ beautiful, nice looking
3. awake	__ not sweet
4. bitter	__ not sharp
5. blonde	__ normal, usual, typical
6. blunt
7. amazing

1. argue	__ like, think highly of
2. admire	__ take in air
3. announce	__ speak, give information
4. bleed		
5. breathe	__ speak angry words, fight
6. boil		

1. ashamed
2. alike	__ not able to see
3. anxious	__ wide, fat
4. awful	__ same, similar
5. blind
6. broad
		
Part B Cloze
Choose from these words to complete the passage:  (1 each = 10 points)

blamed	adventure	advice	
amusing	brave	army
bossy	arrived	abroad
blouses	attitude	blankets


Dr. Patricia Simpson talks about her work

Patricia Simpson is a doctor in the French organization called Medecins sans Frontieres.  Translated into English, this means Doctors without Borders.  These (1).......................... doctors travel anywhere in the world, sometimes to very unsafe places, to help people in need.  Patricia is Canadian but she has spent most of her life working (2)..................... in countries like Malaysia, Iraq, Somalia, Lesotho and other troubled areas.  I asked Patricia why she chose to do this work.   She answered that the work is very exciting and she loves the travel and (3)...........................  Of course, she also likes the feeling that she is doing useful work.  She said she doesn't do it for the money; she earns only $700 a month, much less than she could earn as a doctor in Canada.  When I asked her if it was difficult to be a woman doctor, she said that  in some other parts of the world men didn't like taking (4)....................... from a woman.  But in Africa she said she had no problems because the Africans are used to (5).......................... women!
She likes Africa but she faced the most difficult time of her whole life recently in Rwanda.  As you know, there was a terrible war in Rwanda last year.  The (6).......................... of one tribe was killing anyone who didn't  belong to their tribe, even old people, mothers and children.  She described how every day thousands of sick, tired and hungry people (7).......................... in a place called Goma after a long walk from the unsafe areas in Rwanda.  At the Goma camp every family was given food, clothing and (8).........................., but the big problem was water.  There wasn't enough for the thousands of people to keep clean.  As a result, people started dying from cholera.  Patricia worked hard to save people but every day hundreds died of the disease, many of them young children.  She worked from morning to night but there were too many.  She and the other Medecins sans Frontieres workers couldn't save them all.  Sometimes, in those dark days, she (9).......................... herself for not working harder to save more.  She feels that this difficult experience changed her (10).......................... to life. "I realized that all of us can die very easily," she says, "and we all need each other.

--adapted from an article in Cosmopolitan magazine, December 1994