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3 Choose the correct words.
1 There was a potato famine/landslide
in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. People had
nothing to eat and about one million
people died.
2 In 2007, there were hurricanes / floods in
the south of England. The water was 90 cm
high.
3 In 1988, there was a terrible tsunami / fire
in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Many
houses and shops burned down.
4 There was a huge volcanic eruption/
earthquake in Iceland in 2010 and many
planes couldn't fly because of the cloud of
volcanic ash.
5 Tornados / Droughts are a problem in
many countries where there isn't much rain.
The longest was in the Atacama Desert in
Chile. It began in 1571 and finished in 1971.
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