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This document contains a reading comprehension test with multiple choice and true/false questions about a passage on the Amazon Rainforest. It also includes a short writing prompt asking students to describe an environmental problem and recommendations to address it in 3 paragraphs of about 75 words each. The reading passage provides background information on the largest rainforest in the world, the plants and animals that live there, as well as threats from deforestation and development.

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2 ESO Reading + Writing

This document contains a reading comprehension test with multiple choice and true/false questions about a passage on the Amazon Rainforest. It also includes a short writing prompt asking students to describe an environmental problem and recommendations to address it in 3 paragraphs of about 75 words each. The reading passage provides background information on the largest rainforest in the world, the plants and animals that live there, as well as threats from deforestation and development.

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2 ESO B Name: 15/02/2019 R.

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Unit 3 test Reading & Writing Test W.:

Reading
10 Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T)
9 Read the text. Choose the most appropriate or false (F)? (12 marks)
description (A–C). (3 marks)
1 The Amazon Rainforest is in seven countries. __
a Saving the Amazon Rainforest
2 Plants take in oxygen and give out carbon
b The biggest pharmacy in the world
dioxide. __
c Plants and animals of the Amazon
3 Carbon dioxide isn’t a greenhouse gas. __
4 Plants in the Amazon can cure headaches. __
5 Drauzio Varella found a possible cure for cancer
The Amazon Rainforest in the Amazon rainforest. __
6 Cutting down the trees in the rainforest is a
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest problem for the Amazon people. __
rainforest in the world. It covers Brazil,
Peru, Colombia, Suriname, Ecuador,
Bolivia and French Guinea. It performs an
important function. The plants take in
carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. The
plants clean the atmosphere because
carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.

Scientists are very interested in the plants


of the Amazon because they can cure
illnesses. For example, some plants can
reduce a temperature and some can help
with headaches and muscle pains. Drauzio
Varella, a researcher from Brazil, is
looking for a cure for cancer in the
Amazon. It is difficult because there are
lots of different kinds of plants.

Another problem is that people are


destroying the rainforest. They are cutting
down the trees. The Amazon people use
plants in everyday life so the destruction
of the rainforest is a problem for them.
Writing
11 Choose one of the environmental problems in
the box. Describe the problem and write your
recommendations. Use the questions and
prompts to help you. Use linking words (also,
too, as well). Write about 75 words. (10 marks)
fossil fuels global warming pollution
animal cruelty plastics deforestation

Ÿ Paragraph 1: What is the problem? What causes


it? What will happen if we don’t stop it from
happening?
Global warming is a problem for the planet.
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase the
temperature of the Earth. Unless we do something
soon, we will destroy the Earth.
Ÿ Paragraph 2: Describe one way to help to reduce
the problem and how it will help.
We need to decrease the fossil fuels that we burn.
We need to find alternative sources of energy, too.
Ÿ Paragraph 3: Describe another way to help
reduce the problem and how it will help.
Cutting down trees also causes global warming
because trees remove the carbon dioxide from the
air. If we increase the number of trees, we will
reduce global warming.

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