In these headlines, say whether the situation seems to be getting worse or better, or whether a disaster has happened or has been avoided/prevented.
Poison gas cloud spreads
OIL SLICK RECEDES
All survive plane’s emergency landing
POLICE DEFUSE TERRORIST BOMB
Experts warn of cholera time bomb
Flood warnings not heeded in time
Possible Answer
- getting worse (spreads means gets bigger / covers a wider area)
- a disaster was avoided (the bomb was defused - made safe)
- getting better (the oil is receding - going away from where it was heading, for example, towards a beach)
- getting worse (a time bomb is something that is set to explode at some definite time in the future)
- disaster avoided (an emergency landing is a landing when the pilot has to land the plane immediately - perhaps he/she has no proper control over the plane, e.g. if there is an electrical fault)
- disaster has occurred / is occurring (if you heed a warning, you take note, and do something; here the warning was ignored)
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