Complete the following article about refugees with the correct active or passive form of the verbs in

brackets. You might need to use negative sentences. (20 points, 1 each)

REFUGEES INSIDE THEIR OWN WAR-TORN COUNTRY -- SYRIANS CONTINUE TO SUFFER

By Bharati Naik and Atika Shubert, CNN

The ongoing violence in Syria 1.____________________ (leave) millions of people displaced. And
while many Syrians fled to neighboring countries to escape the bloodshed, others have remained despite
being in harm's way, though they 2.____________________ (force) to leave their homes.
According to the United Nations (U.N), an estimated 4.25 million people are homeless inside the
country -half of whom 3.____________________ (believe) to be children. During these events, hundreds
of thousands of men, women and children 4.____________________ (leave) vulnerable after being forced
to relocate from their homes, often multiple times.
Now, without adequate shelter, food and medical care, many people 5.____________________
(rely/heavily) on aid agencies to provide basic amenities. The family of Ayesha (not her real name) is among
them.
Ayesha says she fled her hometown in northern Syria after a bomb 6.____________________
(destroy) her home, killing two of her teenage children. She now lives in an abandoned building site with
her remaining children and grandchildren and she 7.____________________ (fear) for her family's safety,
which is why she has asked not to use her real name.
Her four-year-old granddaughter carries a physical scar of the ongoing conflict -after she
8.____________________ (burn) during shelling.
Recalling the days she 9.____________________ (live) in her own house and farmland, Ayesha
says: "You have five people being killed, at times six or 10 and 15. Every day they targeted us with bombs,
missiles and snipers."
Prison inmates suffer the most in Syria
Ayesha is one among the 6.8 million people the U.N. deems to be in urgent need of protection and
assistance. So far, the destruction of homes and land 10.____________________ (force) many others to
abandon their old lives.
Zenat (not her real name), a young mother, says she fled after her house
11.____________________ (bomb). Her four-year-old son suffers from burns from that day. "He
12.____________________ (burn) while he was at the house, they bombed the house, which collapsed on
him, and there is no available treatment for him," she says.
Syria's medical system 13.____________________ (suffer) a heavy blow during this nearly three-
year-old conflict. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 50% of Syrian hospitals
14.____________________ (destroy) or are non-operational.
7-year-old's story shows pain, worry of Syrian refugees
That means, for a mother like Zenat, immediate medical care is unavailable even in dire situations.
"We 15.____________________ (get) any help, there are no doctors, where shall we take him? My heart
burned when I saw him this way, it 16.____________________ (be) a very hard feeling for me," she
recalls.
According to data 17.____________________ (give) to the WHO by Syrian health authorities, as of
July 2013, 60% of the ninety-one public hospitals across the country 18.____________________ (affect)
by the conflict. Of those, twenty 19.____________________ (damage), and thirty-five are out of service.
Lately, many Syrian doctors 20.____________________ (fly) to the country and for aid agencies
trying to provide medical relief to the needy, Syria remains one of the most dangerous places to work.
Some of the heavily damaged towns in Syria have even less access to healthcare. Syria's health ministry
estimates that in the governorates of Deir-ez-Zo, Idleb and Aleppo, 70% of health centers are either
damaged or out of service, the WHO said.
Taken and adapted from http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/world/meast/syria-civilians-displaced/index.html?hpt=wo_t2