2 A. Read the text and complete it with the words from the box.
radiation disaster explosion contaminated nuclear suffering
In the year 1986 there was a terrible_ explosion . The explosion was at
power plant in Chernobyl. The
caused a lot of damage. It
the soil and water.
People lived in the area when the explosion happened. Twenty years later
those people are still
from the explosion effects.
Today, 2.2 million people, including 800,000 children, still live in dangerously
contaminated areas. And while only 56 deaths are directly linked to the
, cases of childhood thyroid cancer in the Chernobyl zone
are more than 200 times above world average and instances of birth defects have
more than doubled since 1986, according to the World Health Organization.
B. Make up three special questions to the text of part A.
1) When
2) Where
3) How many
