Cover of the textbook On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Progress Check 8 for the textbook On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) is correct. Justify your answers.
  2. Answer the questions. Use your own words.

Answer

a)

  1. B (l. 2-3)
  2. D (l. 8-11)
  3. B (l. 19-20)
  4. B (l. 27-31)
  5. B (l. 32-'famine')
  6. D (l. 42-'amazingly')

b)

  1. Poisonous gases, dust and ash from the eruption filled the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures.
  2. Twelve thousand people died in the eruption and thousands more people died as a result of lack of food.