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
Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) is correct. Justify your answers.
Answer the questions. Use your own words.
Answer
a)
B (l. 2-3)
D (l. 8-11)
B (l. 19-20)
B (l. 27-31)
B (l. 32-'famine')
D (l. 42-'amazingly')
b)
Poisonous gases, dust and ash from the eruption filled the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures.
Twelve thousand people died in the eruption and thousands more people died as a result of lack of food.