USE OF ENGLISH
THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918
3. Find the words or phrases in the text that mean:
- a) catastrophe (paragraph 1) DISASTER
- b) autumn (paragraph 2) FALL
- c) ending (paragraph 2) WINDING DOWN
- d) fatal (paragraph 2) DEADLY
4. Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given.
- a) Many more people WERE KILLED (kill) by the "Spanish Flu" in a single year THAN those who died from the Black Death.
- b) If doctors of the time HAD HAD (have) effective medicines at their disposal in 1918, many people WOULD HAVE SAVED (save) their lives.
- c) Normally IT takes years to find an effective drug against a virus. We still haven't one for AIDS AFTER three decades of research.
- d) Rewrite the following sentence beginning with the words given.
- Mrs. Mitchell said to her daughter: "Wear your scarf and gloves in case it snows".
- Mrs. Mitchell told her daughter to wear her scarf and gloves in case it snowed.
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