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major ecological disaster is threatening
a rugged stretch of
northwestern coastline, and the people of
Coruna
neighboring communities have no one to blame but themselves. A million-ton
mountain of garbage, the area’s accumulated household trash of more than two
decades, is collapsing in a landslide that some locals say they had predicted
for years. On September 10, the advancing
trash swamped one of the villages from which it emanated, killing a
resident. Now it threatens to pollute the sea that provides the livelihood of many
people in the area.
The avalanche began when deep fissures
appeared in the Bens municipal dump. Heavy rains or perhaps a seismic
disturbance are being blamed for the instability. However, the top has always
leaked streams of foul-smelling liquid –
evidence, some say, that it had poor drainage – and began to collapse on its
own liquefying innards.
What
officials now fear is that the rest of the mountain may come crashing down,
burying everything in its path and stopping
only when it reaches the
Last
week, despite efforts to build dikes and remove surface garbage, the fissures
continued to expand at an unrelenting rate of 0.5 cm per hour. With the crisis
showing no sign of abatement, the mayor petitioned the Spanish government to
declare his city a national disaster area.
1. Responsibility for the disaster lies with_____________
a. all the people of
b. the people of
Coruna
c. the people of
Coruna
d. the people of
2. On September 10, _________________
a. a natural landside polluted the sea
b. an earthquake caused flooding
c. a village along the coastline became a swamp
d. a village along the coastline was covered with garbage
3. In line 9, word “emanated” can best be replaced by ___
a. passed
b. originated
c. stopped
d. formed
4. ___________was not mentioned as one of the effects
of the disaster.
a. Accumulation of waste
b. The death of a villager
c. Threat or marine life
d. Trash covering a village
5. ________ is not mentioned as a cause of
the fissures
a. Poor drainage
b. A heavy rain
c. Government neglect
d. An earthquake
ANSWER
1.c
2.c
3.a
4.a
5.d
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