• ☐ ☐ ☐ oblige [v] - require
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a breakthrough [n] - overcoming a problem
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hostages [n] - people who have been taken captive and held
• ☐ ☐ ☐ taken captive [exp] - captured, not allowed to be free
• ☐ ☐ ☐ prison inmates [n] - prisoners, the people kept in a jail or prison
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a raid [n] - an attack
• ☐ ☐ ☐ carry out [phv] - do
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an operation [n] - a job, a process
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a penitentiary [n] - a jail or prison
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a landslide [n] - a large amount of earth and dirt falling
• ☐ ☐ ☐ unauthorized [adj] - not given permission, not legal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a gold mine [n] - a deep hole or tunnel where people find and take gold
• ☐ ☐ ☐ go up in flames [exp] - burn, be on fire
• ☐ ☐ ☐ lava [n] - hot liquid rock that comes from a volcano
• ☐ ☐ ☐ erupt [v] - lava and smoke come out of a volcano
• ☐ ☐ ☐ declare [v] - state or say officially
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a terrorist [n] - a person who uses violence to create fear
• ☐ ☐ ☐ authoritarian rule [n] - a type of government that requires people to follow a leader completely
• ☐ ☐ ☐ totalitarianism [n] - a type of government in which the people have virtually no power and the state has complete power
• ☐ ☐ ☐ branded [adj] - called, named
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a foreign agent [n] - an enemy of a country

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

1. Denmark has a new ______.
   government
   president
   king
   
   
2. Hostages in Ecuador have been ______.
   killed
   rescued
   discovered
   
   
3. There were ______ problems during the raid.
   no
   few
   many
   
   
4. There was a landslide in _______ gold mine in Tanzania.
   an old
   an illegal
   the largest
   
   
5. ______ died during the landslide.
   No one
   Twelve people
   Twenty people
   Over twenty people
   
   
6. Homes in Iceland were destroyed by ______.
   a landslide
   a storm
   lava
   
   
7. A famous Russian _______ has been branded an enemy of the state.
   author
   leader
   terrorist
   
   

Directions: Choose one word for each box.

• A breakthrough in Ecuador where hostages taking taken (taken) captive by prison inmates have freed been freed (been freed) .
• Today, the raid carried was carried (was carried) out. The work did was done (was done) . A clean operation without any problems. All the penitentiary security guards freed were freed (were freed) . All control of the prison has recovered been recovered (been recovered) .
• And a landslide at an unauthorized gold mine in Tanzania kills is killed (kills) more than 20 people.
• Homes go are gone (go) up in flames as lava from a newly erupting erupted (erupting) volcano is reached reaches (reaches) an Icelandic town.
• They have are (have) not declared a writer to be a terrorist since 1952.
• The authoritarian rule is moving moved (moving) very fast towards totalitarianism.
• The famous Russian novelist Borís Akunin speaks about branding being branded (being branded) a foreign agent by Moscow.