World News Sept 17, 2019

Question 1

Claim responsibility

Answer 1

verb - noun

Admit that you did something

_{No one has claimed responsibility for the problem.}

_{ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.}

Question 2

Bombing

Answer 2

noun

The act of dropping or setting off a bomb

_{There was a big bombing in Paris.}

_{They claimed responsibility for the bombing.}

Question 3

Election

Answer 3

noun

Voting for the candidate

_{The next US election is coming up soon.}

_{There will be a public holiday on Election Day.}

Question 4

Embassy

Answer 4

noun

An office that represent a country in a foreign country

_{I need to go to the French embassy to pick up my visa.}

_{There are no Taiwanese embassies in the world.}

Question 5

Hectares

Answer 5

noun

An area of 100 square meters

_{His farm is 3000 hectares big.}

_{We need to sell 20 hectares of land.}

Question 6

Go off the tracks

Answer 6

verbal phrase

A train crashing on the ground

_{There is a train in India that went off the tracks.}

_{A good train should not go off the tracks.}

Question 7

Cancer Survivor

Answer 7

noun

Someone who recovered from cancer

_{My mother is a cancer survivor.}

_{There are more cancer survivors today than ever before.}

Question 8

English Channel

Answer 8

noun

The sea between England and France

_{She swam across the English Channel twice.}

_{You’ll need to cross the English Channel on a ferry.}

Question 9

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