B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (5pts)
I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentence. (2.5pts)
6. A _____________ is sudden flooding that occurs when water rises quickly within several hours
of a heavy rain.
A. quick flood B. rapid flood C. flash flood D. hot flood
7. Monsoon rains across Thailand _____________ millions of people in 61 of its provinces.
A. has affected B. have affected C. have effect D. have influenced
8. Typhoon Haiyan made the damage, and ____________ of life became great in the Philippines.
A. lose B. loses C. losing D. loss
9. Thanks to the extensive ___________ measures taken, loss of life in Typhoon Xangsane in Da
Nang and other provinces seemed to be relatively low.
A. prevent B. preventive C. prevention D. preventing
10. A number of other provinces will declare drought _____________ in the coming weeks.
A. acciden t B. emergency C. even t D. situation
11. In some areas, human ____________ can be a contributing factor in causing landslides.
A. acts B. actions C. acting D. activities
12. The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of frequent _____________ and volcanic ___________,
encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
A. floods-eruptions B. earthquake-flood
C. flood-eruption D. earthquakes-eruptions
13. Magma is the liquid rock inside a volcano, but lava is magma that ________ a volcano.
A. flows B. flows into C. flows out D. flows out of
14. A soft, loose soil may ____________ more intensely than hard rock at the same distance from
the same earthquake.
A. erupt B. rage C. shake D. collapse
15. During the next 24 hours, the storm will be moving north, around 10 km per hour and is
expected to ____________ the southeastern part of China’s Guangdong Province.
A. strike B. scatter C. bury D. struck