/ EINSTEIN / CAN / NOT / SPEAK / UNTIL / HE / EIGHT / A. NOT UNTIL...

8. / Einstein / can / not / speak / until / he / eight /

A. Not until Einstein was eight can he speak.

B. Einstein could not speak until he was eight.

C. Einstein cannot speak until he was eight.

D. Not until Einstein was eight he can speak.

PART III : READING ( 6.0 pts )

Question 7 : Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in

each question :

Disasters are usually unexpected. For once, this was one which everyone had expected. Even

so, when Mount St Helens actually exploded in Washington State on Sunday, 18

^th

May 1980, it

did so suddenly and dramatically __ and left some 100 people dead.

Geologist David Johnston was keeping watch at the Coldwater Two observation post five

miles north of the summit of Mount St Helens. For seven weeks the 2,949-metre snow-covered

mountain had been giving out signs of imminent eruption. Johnston was at one of a number of

observation points from which geologists were keeping up with the state of the mountain and

reporting back to the US Geological Survey base 40 miles south of the summit at Vancouver,

Washington State.

At 8.32 a.m. that Sunday, Johnston got on to the base and shouted over the radio:

‘Vancouver, Vancouver. This is it. The mountain’s going!’ They were the 30-year-old

geologist’s last words. He died instantly as the volcano exploded with a force 500 times

greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 400 metres off the top. Any

attempts to get through to Johnston again were useless.

People heard the noise 200 miles aways. But the mud and ash quickly caught up with Bert

Delfonso, a logger, only 25 miles away. He said it was ‘like the end of the world. Heavy, thick

cloud boiled up, while and blue, lightning flashes crackled through the mountains. It rained

mud balls. And after that the ash came down. It just got black, and I mean pitch black’.

Another witness said: ‘I broke out in a cold sweat, and ran.’

Within seconds the volcano had put on a terrible display. The north wall collapsed and gas,

ash and rock blasted up into the air, some up to 16 miles into the stratosphere. Snow melted

instantly and avalanches of mud and rock hurtled down the sides of the volcano at 100 mph,

sweeping away homes, cabins, bridges and millions of fir trees. One flow of debris blocked the

outlet of Spirit Lake. When the ash fell, it fell on the state fish farm at Green River killing