新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)視聽(tīng)說(shuō)教程第四冊(cè) Unit 3 MODEL3 This is the island that disappeared

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Susan: Just look at that sky. Aren’t the twilight colors beautiful?

John: Um. Even heard of the famous sunsets that followed the Krakatoa volcano eruption?

Susan: Do you mean the Pacific island that blew up in the eighteen hundreds?

John: Yeah. Deep red sunsets appeared on the horizon for the three years after the explosion.

Susan: They were caused by the fine dust that spread through the earth’s atmosphere.

John: People 5,000 kilometers away from Krakatoa reported hearing the enormous blast.

Susan: And ashes even fell on Singapore, more than 500 kilometers to the north.

John: As I remember, two thirds of the island simply disappeared, blown to bits.

Susan: And then giant sea waves followed, killing more than 40,000 people who lived there.

John: Apparently the biggest of those waves traveled 4,000 kilometers in just 12 hours.

Susan: I don’t think there’s ever been another natural disaster quite like it, do you?

John: A mountain called Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby town of Pompeii in ashes; but that was in a smaller scale.