Learning to understand news reports: New York snow chaos

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Now do the exercise:

Complete each of these sentences from the BBC news report.


1.______________ snowstorms have hit America's East coast.

2. Some say _________________________ played a Halloween trick on 60 million people. Only four times in the last 135 years has New York's Central Park seen snow this early.

3.The ___________________ caused power cuts and some deaths as roads became ___________________.

4. More than a thousand flights were cancelled with some passengers trapped on ___________________ planes for hours.

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