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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

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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 fivemiles north of the summit of Mount St Helens. For seven weeks the 2,949-metre snow-coveredmountain had been giving out signs of imminent eruption. Johnston was at one of a number ofobservation points from which geologists were keeping up with the state of the mountain andreporting 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-oldgeologist’s last words. He died instantly as the volcano exploded with a force 500 times greaterthan the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 400 metres off the top. Any attempts to getthrough to Johnston again were useless. People heard the noise 200 miles aways. But the mud and ash quickly caught up with BertDelfonso, a logger, only 25 miles away. He said it was ‘like the end of the world. Heavy, thickcloud boiled up, while and blue, lightning flashes crackled through the mountains. It rained mudballs. 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, ashand rock blasted up into the air, some up to 16 miles into the stratosphere. Snow melted instantlyand avalanches of mud and rock hurtled down the sides of the volcano at 100 mph, sweepingaway homes, cabins, bridges and millions of fir trees. One flow of debris blocked the outlet ofSpirit Lake. When the ash fell, it fell on the state fish farm at Green River killing 10,000,000salmon, and on the wheat fields and orchards to the east. Until 1980 the volcano had been inactive since 1857. In 1975 geologists had predicted that itmight erupt ‘perhaps before the end of the century’. And then seven weeks before the disaster,the experts came up with a more exact prediction. They said an eruption was imminent and thatan evacuation programme should begin. They declared two zones around the mountain ( a redzone and a blue zone) and set up blockades to stop people going in. But in the weeks that led upto that Sunday, tourists, loggers, property-owners, newsmen and mountain climbers had enteredthe ‘forbidden’ zones. Some of these people paid with their lives. Later, it was found that ash andmolten mud had caught up with many: falling trees had killed others. David Johnston had always known that the mountain would blow fast when the time came. Hethought they would have about two hours’warning. In the event, he had hardly any warning atall. Searchers found only a four-foot-high pile of black ash where Johnston’s trailer had stood. When the dust and ash had finally settled, what kinds of problems do you think people innearby towns and cities had to face up ?