I. Match a word in column A with its description in column B, writing the answer in
each blank.
Answer A B
___G___ 1. A thunderstorm
G. It is a storm where you hear thunder and see
lightning. There is usually heavy rain. It is an electric
storm.
___E___ 2. A tornado
E. It is a very violent windstorm. The air is concentrated
and whirls up rapidly. It is grey in colour and looks
like an elephant’s trunk swaying down from the
clouds to touch the ground with its tip.
___H___ 3. A hurricane
H. It is the most violent storm known on Earth. It is a
tropical storm. It forms at sea and causes dangerous, stormy seas. It can reach the land and destroy
buildings and trees. It can blow high waves onto the
land and cause flooding.
__B____ 4. An earthquake
B. The Earth has a crust under the oceans and the land
that we live on. This crust made of massive areas of
flat rock called tectonic plates, which float on the
Earth’s mantle, the inside layer of the Earth. When the
plates move slowly together, this movement forces
energy through the crusts to the Earth’s surface. The
energy causes the Earth to tremble and shake.
___F___ 5. A volcano
F. It is a hill or mountain formed when molten material
or lave from the inside of the Earth is forced through
the Earth’s crust by gases. It can produce vast clouds
of very fine volcanic dust which looks like smoke.
___D___ 6. A tsunami
D.It is caused by earthquakes at sea. It forms when
energy from an earthquake displace hundreds of
cubic kilometers of water from the seabed. Large
waves begin moving through the ocean from their
epicenters. When it reaches shallow water near
coastal areas, it increases in height. The sign comes
before it strikes when the waterline suddenly retreats, exposing hundreds of meters of beach and seabed.
___A___ 7. A sinkhole
A. It is created when the surface layer of the ground
collapses. It varies in size and are found all over the
world. It is an area of ground that has no natural
external surface drainage. When it rains, all of the
water stays inside it and typically drains into the
subsurface. It can vary from a few feet to hundreds of
acres and from less than 1 to more than 100 feet
deep.
__C____ 8. Lightning
C. It is a very bright flash of electricity that happens in a
thunderstorm. It is actually a spark that crosses the
gap between two clouds or between a cloud and the
Earth. It carries an enormous charge of electricity. Trees are burned, metal can be melted and people can
be killed.
II. Complete each sentences with the correct word from the box.
1. When there is a _____flood ( lũ lụt) ______, a lot of water covers an area where there usually isn’t
water.
2. A _____drought ( hạn hán )______ refers to a long time without rain.
3. When there is a ______landslide ( lở đất )________, a lot of rocks and earth fall down a hill.
4. A____hurricane ( bão ) ________ is a storm with a lot of wind that moves over water.
5. A_____tornado ( lốc xoáy )_______ is a storm in which the air moves very quickly in a circle.
III. Use the verbs in the box in the correct form to complete the sentences.
1. The government ______provide_______ health and other services to the affected regions.
2. Action were ______taken ( take action: hành động )_______ to limit the effects of the floods in Quang Ninh.
3. The Red Cross helped homeless families to ____recover ( khôi phục )________ from the disaster through
the project.
4. The majority of concerned areas have ____suffered_______ from cholera epidemics ( dịch tả ) after the
floods and landslides in Central America.
5. Early September, mudslides caused by heavy rains _____buries________ an entire village
of 480 inhabitants.
6. Thousands of villagers ______are evacuated ( sơ tán )______ from flood-prone areas after the warnings
from the weather bureau.
7. Tiny particles of dust, smoke, salt or pollution droplets that _____are scattered( phân tán/ rải )______ through the air to cause haze.
8. The fires ______rages ( ác liệt/ thịnh nộ )______ for more than a week in the southern region of Chile, which
has been hit by a severe drought.
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