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Weather can affect the people's lives greatly. The article below describes an extreme natural event.
EUROPE
Deep Freeze
The harshest winter weather in a decade lashes Europe, disrupting travel by air, land and sea — and claims the lives of hundreds.
By David Gordon
The new year made a stormy entrance last week, lashing the Continent with the severest cold snap in a decade. Snow, ice and subfreezing temperatures spelled chaos, and sometimes deaths, from the Mediterranean to the Urals. More than 220 deaths mostly among the home-less and the elderly, were reported as far south as Valencia, Spain.
Travel became a Homeric task. In the Caucasus, an avalanche (лавина) sealed (окру жить кольцом) 300 people in a mountain tunnel connecting Russia and Georgia for days. Air traffic was disrupted as was train travel. A Paris bound Eurostar train carrying some 500 passengers got stuck in the Chunnel for more than two hours, its engine stalled(останавливать) by snow. Ice clogged river traffic on the Loire, Elbe, Main and Danube. Even Eng land's Thames* froze in places for the first time since 1963. The brutal weather put a damper on New Year celebrations. Those who booked holiday trips to resorts on the Adriatic found snow, not sun, on beaches. Parisians ice-skated in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower early in the week, but by New Year's Day the city was a ghost town as its citizens hid from the chill. In London, the freeze even muzzled the chimes of Big Ben for a few hours on New Year's Eve. cold snap didn't spoil all the fun. In London, brave bathers still took the annual New Year's Day dip in Hyde Park's Serpentine.
And in the Netherlands, some 16,000 Dutch donned (надевать) ice skates Saturday for a 200-kilometer race across the frozen lakes and canals in Friesland. That's marking the best of a bitter situation.
Deep Freeze
I. Choose - A. True B. False C. Not stated
1. Winter weather became destructive for Europe.
2. There were many deaths due to winter storm, ice, and subfreezing temperatures.
3. The catastrophe came just before spring.
4. People celebrated New Year merrily and happily
5. The Thames froze and workers had to struggle with the ice on the London River.
6. Big Ben stopped working on New Year Eve because of the weather problems
7. Some people tried to have fun and usual life, skating and dipping
II
1. Find the Superlative degree of the adjectives
2. Find the sentences with Participle I
3. Find the sentences with Passive Voice
4. Find the sentence with cause and effect relation, point cause and effect, replace the linking word with its equivalent
III Speaking
1. What facts are interesting for you?
2. What facts are you surprised with (shocked about)?