Tiêu đề ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 8 TP BẮC NINH 2021-2022.docx ✅

2 A: The moon? Can this be possible? B: Well, they think that the moon may affect volcanic eruptions. For example, a volcano is more likely to erupt when there is a full moon. This is a very old idea, but it has never been tested until recently ... (2) A: I see ... B: But not all volcanoes are dangerous killers ... A: Really? B: Take Mount Etna, in Sicily. Everybody has heard of Mount Etna. It’s called the “Friendly Giant”, not because it’s big - though it is - but because its lava moves very slowly. This gives people time to escape. It’s not a killer volcano (3) ... even though it looks terrible during its eruptions ... A: Oh, I didn’t know that about its lava ... B: It’s true. Also, people have recorded the deaths caused by Mount Etna for over three thousand years, and it has only killed seventy-three people in all that time (4). That’s not very many when you think about it, though there was a large eruption in sixteen sixty-nine ... but nobody recorded any deaths ... A: Amazing ... B: Volcanoes are always changing ... for example, the cone, that’s the channel the lava flows through, can close up and a new cone can form. A new cone is actually a new volcano. On the site of Mount Fuji in Japan, there were two other volcanoes there before the present one ... (5) A: Amazing! B: Mount Fuji is actually a very popular place for tourists, including the Japanese. It has about four hundred thousand visitors a year. In the summer, there can be twenty thousand a day ... A: And can you tell us about the word “volcano” itself? B: Yes ... it comes from the Italian word “vulcano” which means “burning mountain”, and from the Latin “Vulcanus”. All “burning mountains”, like Vesuvius and Mount Fiji, were given this name, but the name “Vulcanus” was first given by the Romans to Mount Etna because they thought that it was the home of the god Vulcanus ... (6) II. You will hear a conversation between Gemma and Bill about different sports. Mark the sentences as true (T) or false (F). 1. There are lots of girls in Bill’s brother’s weightlifting class. F 2. Gemma doesn’t like the large muscles of weightlifting champions. T 3. At the start, Bill thinks diving might be a possibility. F 4. Gemma didn’t know that Bill dislikes the water. F 5. Bill loves the idea of going hang-gliding. T