University Tips
Doomed delivery
By Ajarn Helen Jandamitv
University Tips is here to help you prepare for the English exams that are coming your way. It gives you practise answering questions similar to those you may have at school and also on the university entrance examination.
SECTION 1
Scan the map. Then, answer the following questions.
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1. What colour on the map represents Burma?
a. Light blue.
b. Dark
blue.
c. White
d. Blue.
2. What does the white area represent?
a. The Gulf of
Thailand.
b. The
islands.
c. Thailand.
d. Burma.
3. What symbol represents Victoria Point?
a. The dotted lines.
b. The
star.
c. The
number 3.
d. The number 4.
SECTION 2
Rearrange the letters of the following captions and put them in the correct order.
a. Landed
at Victoria Point and shipped to Ranong Province.
b. Migrants
put in trucks heading to working sites in Ranong, Phangnga, Phuket and Krabi.
c. Workers
picked up from small islands off the Burmese coast.
d. Workers
travel by boat from Rakhine in Burma.
4. ...................
5. ...................
6. ...................
7. ...................
SECTION 3
Read the story. Then, answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.
Deadly cargo
One hundred
and twenty one Burmese workers were smuggled into Ranong on April 10.
They were sealed inside a cold storage container on a truck on its way
to Phuket when the ventilation system failed.
Fifty four people � 17 men, 36 women and a young girl � suffocated. The 21 injured were sent to Suk Samran Hospital.
The remaining 46 survivors were held at Suk Samran district police station.
8. How did the Burmese workers travel on the last part of their journey to Ranong?
a. By boat.
b. On foot.
c. In a
cold storage container.
d. In the
cab of a truck.
9. How many Burmese workers were smuggled into Ranong?
a. 54.
b. 21.
c. 17.
d. 121.
10. How many Burmese workers suffocated?
a. 54.
b. 21.
c. 46.
d. 121.
11. Where did the police hold the 46 uninjured survivors?
a. Suk Samran
hospital.
b. In
Phuket.
c. At Suk
Samran district police station.
d. It doesn�t say.
SECTION 4
The tragedy struck half way through a journey of hope that began when the job seekers packed their bags and set off from Rangoon.
The 121 Burmese travelled from Rangoon ��.. 12 ��.. Moulmein and rested at Kawthaung island.
��.. 13 ��.. labour brokers took them by boat ��.. 14��.. a transit point on another island, ��.. 15 ��.. Thai brokers took charge and smuggled ��.. 16 ��.. safely into Ranong.
The workers had ��.. 17 ��.. 5,000 baht each to the broker ��.. 18 ��.. secured them passage to Thailand.
12.
a. through
b. though
c. thorough
d. thought
13.
a. Burma�s
b. Myanmar
c. Burma
d. Burmese
14.
a. for
b. in
c. to
d. at
15.
a. what
b. which
c. when
d. where
16.
a. him
b. her
c. it
d. them
17.
a. paid
b. pay
c. pays
d. PAYE
18.
a. worse
b. who
c. whom
d. whose
SECTION 5
Scan the table. Then, decide if the statements that follow are true or false.
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19. The first item on the table happened in October, 2006.
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20. Six items in the table are about Burmese migrants.
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21. In November 2007, eight people died in a motor accident, and 14 people were injured.
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22. In 2008, seven Lao migrants were killed in a car crash.
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23. In December 2006, 22 Burmese migrants drowned in Ranong.
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24. In January 2008, seven Burmese migrants drowned at Srinakarin dam.
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migrant (n): a person who moves from one place to
another, especially in order to find work smuggle (v): to take, send or bring goods or people secretly and illegally into or out of a country, etc. seal (v): to close a container tightly suffocate (v): to die because there is no air to breathe survivor (n): a person who continues to live, especially in spite of being nearly killed or experiencing great danger or difficulty tragedy (n): a very sad event or situation, especially one that involves death set off (phrasal v): to begin a journey labour (n): the people who work or are available for work broker (n): a person who buys and sells things for other people transit (n): the act of going through a place on the way to somewhere else secure (v): to obtain or achieve something, especially when this means using a lot of effort passage (n): the permission to travel across a particular area of land |
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