VOCABULARY QUIZ 12  (U-Z)
Name..................................................

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

1. wrap
2. wish	__want, hope
3. wear out	__lose, use badly
4. undress	__take off clothes
5. vote	__choose, elect
6. worry
7. waste

1. universe
2. umbrella	__pounds or kilograms  
3. weight	__sun, stars, earth etc.	
4. wire	__vehicles have 2 or 4
5. wheel	__long, thin piece of metal
6. width
7. wedding

1. weak
2. well known	__not beautiful
3. wooden	__famous
4. valuable	__recent, modern
5. well made	__worth a lot
6. ugly
7. up to date

1. zero
2. voyage	__sea journey
3. wash basin	__sink
4. wool	__animals live there
5. victory
6. zoo

Part B. Cloze  (1 each = 10 points)
Choose from these words to complete the passage:

warned	various	unable 
whole	whether	unlucky 
yourself	while	until	
whatever	worried	yet

Ebola--How Will It End?

One evening last week my friends and I sat down to watch a video.  The name of the film was "Outbreak" and it told the story of a strange and terrible disease.  The disease suddenly attacked a small village in Africa and doctors were (1)....................................... to help people who caught it.  (2)....................................... parts of their bodies (hearts, livers and kidneys) became liquid, then blood started to pour out of their ears, eyes and noses, and soon after that they died.  A person could be perfectly healthy one day and dead the next.  In the film the American doctors wondered what to do.  They had to decide (3)................................... they would help the sick Africans or not.  If they stayed to help they might be killed by the disease themselves, but if they left, the deadly disease might never be stopped.  In the film, the American government decided to drop a bomb on the (4)....................................... village and destroy the patients, the doctors and the disease itself.  But this was not the end of the story.  Later the disease reappeared in America and killed many more people, as you will discover if you ever see this film (5)....................................  . 

We thought it was just a crazy story in a movie, but (6)....................................... I was watching the news a few days ago, I saw --to my great surprise-- that much of this horror film has become real!   In the African country of Zaire, at least 57 people have died of a mysterious killer disease called Ebola.  As in the film, the Ebola virus turns people's body parts to blood and causes death in a very short time.  Doctors haven't (7)....................................... found a way to cure the disease, and so far it looks like the only way to prevent it is to keep it from traveling farther.  For this reason, the Zairean government has told people not to travel, and (8).......................... that the police will arrest anybody trying to leave a village where there have been cases of Ebola. 

Specialists at the World Health Organization in Geneva are working day and night to find a way to fight Ebola, but (9)....................................... a cure is found, the situation is will probably get worse.  They say that nine out of ten people who catch Ebola die, and today's newspaper reports that the disease is traveling fast in spite of the government's efforts to keep people in their villages.  In ÒOutbreakÓ,  the doctors succeed in finding a cure and the film has a happy ending, but no one really knows what will happen with the Ebola virus.  These days the (10)....................................... world is waiting, hoping and praying for a happy end to a horror story that became real.

--based on the feature film Outbreak and an article in The Oman Observer, May 15, 1995.
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