Question 5: a/ Read the following passage and look carefully at each line. If a line is correct, put a tick (√ ). If a line has a word which should not be there, underline the word and write it in the space provided.
A recent investigation carry by scientists at the U.S. Geological survey shows | 1 |
that strange animal behavior might help predict future earthquakes. | 2 |
Investigators found such a occurrences in a ten-kilometer radius of the epicenter | 3 |
of a fairly recent quake. Some birds were screeched and flew about wildly, dogs | 4 |
yelped and ran around uncontrollably. Scientists believe that animals can be | 5 |
perceive these environmental changes as early as several days before the mishap. | 6 |
In 1976, after observing animal behavior, the Chinese were able to | 7 |
predict a devastating quake. Although many hundreds of thousands of people | 8 |
were killed, the government was able to evacuate millions of an other | 9 |
people and thus keep the death toll at a little lower level. | 10 |
