SECOND C, D, F

LONDON SLAVES RECUED AFTER 30 YEARS 

Three women have been rescued from a house in south London after being held in captivity for 30 years. Police raided the home of a 67-year-old man and woman who reportedly held the women against their will for three decades. Police told reporters the captives were kept in "horrific conditions". The rescue took place after one of the women managed to gain access to a telephone and contacted Freedom Charity, which specializes in freeing victims of forced marriages. The police found a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton. The British woman is believed to have been born in captivity and have no experience of life outside the house in which she was enslaved.

London police said: "This is the very early stages of a complicated and sensitive investigation. These women are highly traumatised, having been held in servitude for at least 30 years with no real exposure to the outside world." They added that: "Trying to find out exactly what has happened over three decades will understandably take some time." A spokeswoman from Freedom Charity expressed amazement at how the women could have been kept for so long in the middle of London without anyone knowing. She said: "In a very busy capital city, we often don't know our neighbours. We're looking at people who were kept against their will in an ordinary residential street in central London."

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	The women were rescued by a special unit from the British Army.	T / F
b.	The rescue took place after one of the captives telephoned for help.	T / F
c.	The woman called a charity that frees victims of forced marriages.	T / F
d.	None of the women who were held captive was British.	T / F
e.	London police suggested it would not be a difficult case to investigate.	T / F
f.	The police said it would take time to get to the facts of this case.	T / F
g.	The charity wasn't surprised this could have happened in London.	T / F
h.	The charity said it can be difficult to know who your neighbours are.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	rescued	a.	distressed
2	captivity	b.	slavery
3.	raided	c.	confinement
4.	freeing	d.	intricate
5.	experience	e.	saved
6.	complicated	f.	wishes
7.	traumatised	g.	contact with
8.	servitude	h.	stormed
9.	will	i.	unremarkable
10.	normal	j.	releasing

MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ

1.	In which part of London were the women held captive?	6.	In what mental state did police describe the women as being?
	a) North London b) South London c) West London d) East London		a) highly traumatised b) stable c) optimistic d) dazed
2.	How old are the suspected captors?	7.	What did the women have no real exposure to for 30 years?
	a) 65 b) 66 c) 67 d) 68		a) daylight b) news c) the Internet d) the outside world
3.	Who did one of the captive women alert?	8.	What did the police say would take some time to do?
	a) a TV show b) a neighbour c) the police d) a charity		a) search the house b) find a missing captor c) find out what happened d) interview everyone
4.	What are the captives' nationalities?	9.	Whom did the charity say we often do not know?
	a) all British b) Malaysian, Irish and British c) Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian d) Latvian, Polish and Finnish		a) ourselves b) those closest to us c) our friends d) our neighbours
5.	Who is thought to have been born a captive?	10.	How did the charity describe the London street?
	a) the 30-year-old Briton b) one of the captors c) a neighbour d) a charity worker		a) suburban b) ordinary c) upmarket d) out-of-the-way