Question

Now read the paragraph quickly and check if your guess was correct.
Recently ,average annual (1) ........ in England has increased by about 45%. This is probably because of (2) ......... warming. The River Thames is ,therefore ,potentially very (3) ......... for the (4) .......... of London . The last time it flooded was in 1953 when 300 people drowned . After this terrible (5) ............. engineers began work on the (6) ......... of the Thames Barrier . It has already been raised 31 times since its (7) ............... in 1982 . It is made of huge walls which are the (8) ............ of a five-storey building . The walls stop (9) .................... amounts of water from flooding the city . Soon it may become (10) .............. to raise it up to 30 times every year !
(1) RAINY / RAINFALL ; (2) GLOBAL / GLOBE ; (3) DANGEROUS / DANGER ; (4) POPULATED / POPULATION ; (5) TRAGIC / TRAGEDY ; (6) DEVELOPED / DEVELOPMENT ; (7) CREATIVE / CREATION ; (8) HIGH / HEIGHT ; (9) CONSIDERABLE / CONSIDERATION ; (10) NECESSARY / NECESSITY

Answer 1

1. rainfall
2. global
3. dangerous
4. population
5. tragedy
6. development
7. creation
8. height
9. considerable
10. necessary