Charlie Hebdo Shooting: 12 Killed at Muhammad Cartoons

Magazine in Paris
Masked (1)____________ armed with AK-47s and shouting "Allahu
Akbar" stormed the offices of a French (2)____________ news magazine
last Wednesday in a terror attack that left 12 people dead, including
the editor and two police officers.
The (3)____________ was the weekly Charlie Hebdo, (4)____________ is
a publication that (5)____________ always courted controversy with
satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published
cartoons of the (6)____________ Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to
temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries
amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were also firebombed in November
2011 after publishing a caricature of Muhammad on its
(7)____________.
France declared Thursday a national day of (8)____________, raised its
terror threat level and stepped (9)____________ security for media
organizations, large stores and places of worship, and launched a
(10)____________ for the killers with the assistance of the FBI.
"Freedom is always (10)____________ than barbarism," French
President Francois Hollande said. "Vive la France."
Put the correct words from the table below in the above
article.
1.

(a) gunmen

(b) thieves

(c) serial
killers

(d) agents

2.

(a) humor

(b) fun

(c) satirical

(d) comical

3.

(a) goal

(b) target

(c) objective

(d) purpose

4.

(a) where

(b) whom

(c) which

(d) whose

5.

(a) has

(b) have

(c) had

(d) was

6.

(a) leader

(b) writer

(c) prophet

(d) diviner

7.

(a) page

(b) cover

(c) front

(d) cape

8.

(a) pain

(b) sadness

(c) mourning

(d) lamentatio
n

9.

(a) up

(b) by

(c) at

(d) on

10. (a) hunting

(b) manhunt

(c) probe

(d) quest

11. (a) big

(b) biggest

(c) bigger

(d) bigged

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