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4. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A Dramatic Storm
On 31^st March 2002 I had my only (0) first-hand experience of a fairly small natural disaster, when, within four hours, about 224 liters of water per square meter (1) ________________ on the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where I live.
The evening before we noticed some unusual (2) _________________ formations that looked as if they were carrying a huge (3) __________________of water. It didn’t rain during the night but in the morning we noticed that the air was hot and (4)___________________. At around midday it began to (5) _____________________ but this quickly developed into quite a (6)______________ downpour. It didn’t stop. The rain continued to (7) __________________ down until about five o’clock when there was a brief pause. We didn’t go outside as we were too busy (8) ___________________ all the water that had come in through small cracks in the (9) _________________ . The people who did, soon discovered that they were mistaken if they thought the storm had (10)__________________ . Instead there was thunder and lightning and more torrential rain. Cars were swept (11) _________________, houses flooded and seven people (12)_________________ their lives.
After storm, many people spent days without either electricity or water and others were (13)_________________ in temporary shelters until the roads could be (14)_______________ of the mud and fallen trees. It seems strange that in a place where there is a volcano that could (15) ___________________ and where there are occasional earth tremors, the first real natural disaster I experienced was flood!

0 A first-hand	B first-rate	C first-class	D first-borne
1 A dropped	B felt	C fell	D showered
2 A wind	B rain	C fog	cloud
3 A bunch	B number	C volume	D bundle
4 A humid	B damp	C wet	D moist
5 A spot	B drizzle	C drop	D drip
6 A strong	B dense	C heavy	D large
7 A spill	B go	C pour	D put
8 A mopping up	B getting out	C making up	D going through
9 A top	B roof	C attic	D room
10 A gone out	B moved through	C blown over	D passed up
11 A off	B away	C over	D down
12 A lost	B missed	C mislaid	D finished
13 A put out	B put up	C put in	D put down
14 A cleared	B cleaned	C freed	D tidied
15 A explode	B light	C burn	D erupt

 Section 3
Assignments for Text Analysis in Terms of
Textlinguistic Categories
3.1. The Category of Informativity

1. 
   Present the text taking into account its genre, the form of narration, the general emotional tinge, the place where the scene is laid and the main characters.
   
2. 
   Formulate the main concern of the text.
   
3. 
   Divide the factual information of the extract into logically connected / complete parts. Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline, the items of which serving as key points of each part.
   
4. 
   Formulate the conceptual information of the text explicating the author’s artistic message.
   
5. 
   Find the facts of socio-historic or philological character (if any) relevant in terms of the category of presupposition commenting on the background information underlying them. Explain how they enlarge the volume of the factual and conceptual information conveyed.