IELTS Reading Test 2 section 4 - IELTS Simulation Test - Bài dịch Mount Pinatubo IELTS listening
Mount Pinatubo IELTS listening
Good morning, everyone.
(Chào buổi sáng, mọi người.)
In these environmental science lectures I guess you're all used to hearing about global warming—well, I'm here today to talk to you about one particular volcano and its effect of global cooling.
(Trong các bài giảng về khoa học môi trường này, tôi đoán là tất cả các bạn đều đã quen với việc nghe về hiện tượng nóng lên toàn cầu - vâng, hôm nay tôi ở đây để nói chuyện với các bạn về một ngọn núi lửa cụ thể và tác động của nó đối với sự lạnh đi toàn cầu.)
I'll begin by going back a little bit in time.
(Tôi sẽ bắt đầu bằng cách quay ngược thời gian một chút.)
Towards the middle of 1991, the second largest volcanic eruption of last century occurred in the Philippines, not far from the capital city, Manila, on the island of Luzon.
(Vào giữa năm 1991, vụ phun trào núi lửa lớn thứ hai của thế kỷ trước đã xảy ra ở Philippines, không xa thủ đô Manila, trên đảo Luzon.)
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Mount Pinatubo belongs to a chain of volcanoes in the area and this was by no means its first eruption. There is evidence of eruptions from approximately 500, 3,000 and 5,500 years ago.
The events of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption began in July 1990 , when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred 100 kilometers northeast of the Pinatubo region. The sleeping giant was re-awakened but few people had any idea of what was in store for them. In mid-March 1991 , many earthquakes were experienced around Mount Pinatubo and this is when volcano scientists (or vulcanologists as they are called) started their investigation of the mountain. Before the disaster, thousands of people lived in very close proximity to the mountain and, on April 2nd, small explosions from vents near the crater dusted they villages with ash . This resulted in the order for evacuations of 5,000 people later that month.
Earthquakes and explosions continued to harass the residents and, on June 5th, a Level 3 alert was issued for two weeks because of the possibility of a major eruption. However, the appearance of a large amount of lava protruding from the mountain on June 7th led to the announcement of a Level 5 alert on June 9th, indicating an eruption in progress . An evacuation area within 20 kilometers of the volcano was established and this time 25,000 people were evacuated.
On the following day, Clark Air Base was evacuated and the danger radius was extended to 30 kilometers from the volcano resulting in the total evacuation of 58,000 people.
On June 15th, just after midday, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo commenced and lasted for nine hours causing numerous major earthquakes due to the collapse of the land at the top of the mountain and the creation of a huge caldera. 'What's a caldera?' I hear you say. Well, it's obvious really—with a huge eruption such as this where enormous amounts of material have exploded into the air, the summit falls into what is now an empty chamber and thus forms a large crater.
As luck would have it, as the eruption was taking place, a tropical storm was passing just to the northeast of Mount Pinatubo, bringing a lot of rainfall to the area. The dust and cinders that had been thrown up into the atmosphere combined with the water vapor from the storm to cause a rainfall of tephra that fell across the whole island of Luzon. Most of the people who perished during the eruption did so because of the weight of the ash collapsing roofs and killing the occupants of the houses. If it hadn't been for that passing storm, the death toll would certainly have been much lower.
But that's not all, besides the ash, Mount Pinatubo expelled between 15 and 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide gas. Can you guess what happened next? Yes, the sulphur dioxide mixed with water and oxygen in the atmosphere to become sulphuric acid, which is a major contributor to ozone reduction.
The eruption plume from Mount Pinatubo reached high into the atmosphere, attaining an altitude of 34 kilometres and the resulting aerosol cloud spread around the earth in two weeks and had covered the planet within a year. During the years 1992 and 1993, the ozone hole situated over Antarctica reached an unprecedented size.
The cooling effects of this cloud over the earth were remarkable. It reduced global temperatures considerably. In the United States, for example, we experienced our third coldest and third wettest summer in 77 years during 1992.
Câu hỏi Mount Pinatubo
Questions 31-35
Answer the questions below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
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When did Mt. Pinatubo erupt for the first time?
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When was the earthquake measuring 7.8 recorded?
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When did the experts begin to study Mt. Pinatubo?
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What fell on the local villages on 2nd April?
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What does a 'Level 5' alert mean?
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Questions 36-40
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Several large earthquakes were triggered by the eruption of Pinatubo on 15th June 1991 because of the 36............................... of the summit. The 'caldera' thus created considerably reduced the height of the mountain. At the same time a 37............................... was passing by and the rain associated with it mixed with the cinders in the air to form a substance called 'tephra' which fell on the 38............................... of homes causing them to collapse, crushing hundreds of people.
During the eruption, large amounts of sulphur dioxide gas were emitted, which combined with 39............................... to make sulphuric acid which was responsible for a great deal of ozone depletion above Antarctica. The overall effect of the cloud from this great eruption was the lowering of 40............................... .
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SECTION 4, Questions 31-40
- 5,500 years ago
- July 1990
- mid-March 1991
- ash
- eruption in progress
- collapse
- tropical storm
- roofs
- water and oxygen
- global temperatures