Стр.VB2 Vocabulary Bank ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 8 класс

а) Complete with: lava, crater, ash, block, gases, event, predict, erupt, explosion, destroy in the correct form.

A day to remember

On a clear Sunday morning, on the 18th May 1980, Mount St Helens 1) ______ after 123 years of silence. The eruption was the deadliest volcanic 2) ______ in the history of the United States. At exactly 8:32 am, an 3) ______ so huge it was heard hundreds of miles away occurred. Tons of red hot 4) ______ emerged from the volcano’s 5) ______ and raced down the mountainside. Every building within a 600 km radius 6) ______. Over 1.5 million tons of poisonous 7) ______ were released into the atmosphere. 8) ______ clouds darkened the sky and 9) ______ out the sun. Geologists and volcanologists did not 10) ______ the disaster.

б) Complete with: flatten, storm, threat, reaches, flooding, evacuated, releases, winds, destroy.

An angry storm

When a 1) ______ at sea becomes a hurricane and 2) ______ shore, it poses a serious 3) ______ to public safety. Once a hurricane 4) ______ its full power, it will 5) ______ everything in its path. Strong 6) ______ and torrential rainfall uproot trees, 7) ______ buildings, and cause serious 8) ______. Communities must be 9) ______ if fatalities are to be avoided.

в) Complete with: destroy, tectonic plate, collapse, shelter, cause, evacuate, measure, rubble, shake in the correct form.

A living nightmare

The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 was the fifth most powerful quake on Earth in more than 100 years. It 1) ______ 9.0 on the Richter Scale. The quake triggered strong tsunami waves which 2) ______ everything in their path, leaving piles of 3) ______ behind. Homes and buildings 4) ______ in an instant. Over fifteen thousand people were killed. Survivors, stunned and 5) ______, 6) ______ the area hoping to find 7) ______ until the nightmare ended. Geologists stated that this disaster was 8) ______ by one 9) ______ being pushed under another.

Match the words, then use the phrases to make sentences.

1 breaking
2 massive
3 deafening
4 dormant
5 emergency
6 poisonous
7 temporary
8 flaming
9 fault
10 violent