A Mystery SOS - Unit 9

B2 First · Word Formation · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition, Macmillan Education Limited

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning. In this particular text, all the missing words are adverbs.

APPEAR

DECEPTION

NEW

SHORT

SAFE

DRAMA

EVENTUAL

LUCK

When a helicopter pilot spotted an SOS sign made from rocks at Swift Bay, Western Australia in May 2017, a search (0) ___ began for a missing person. Someone had (1) ___ made a call for help in this (2) ___ remote part of the country, but police were unsure whether the sign was (3) ___ constructed or if it had been there for some time. They were unable to find anyone, although evidence of a camp was discovered. The mystery was solved when, (4) ___ after hearing about it, a man told police that the sign had been made in 2013 by his brother, Robert Rudd, after his yacht had become stranded in the bay. Rudd and a travelling companion had made it to shore (5) ___ in a small boat, but only after (6) ___ surviving an attack from a crocodile. They were (7) ___ rescued after living for several days off rations they had taken with them and fresh water they had found. (8) ___ for them, another yacht came by and found them before they ran out of food.

A Mystery SOS

IMMEDIATE

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