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Okba Ibn Nafa Secondary School. Full name:…………………………………………………………… Class:………..

Third Term Test


Throughout history and into modern times, forests have been destroyed to make space for
agriculture and animal grazing, and to obtain wood for fuel, manufacturing, and construction.

Deforestation has greatly altered landscapes around the world. About 2,000 years ago, 80 percent
of Western Europe was forested; today the figure is 34 percent. In North America, about half of the
forests in the eastern part of the continent were cut down from the 1600s to the 1870s for timber and
agriculture.

Today, the greatest amount of deforestation is occurring in tropical rainforests, aided by extensive
road construction into regions that were once almost inaccessible. Deforestation can result in
more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. That is because trees take in carbon
dioxide from the air for photosynthesis, and carbon is locked chemically in their wood. When trees are
burned, this carbon returns to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide causing global warming.

Deforestation also threatens the world’s biodiversity. Tropical forests are home to great numbers
of animal and plant species. More immediately, the loss of trees from a forest can leave soil more prone
to erosion. This causes the remaining plants to become more vulnerable to fire as the forest shifts from
being a closed, moist environment to an open, dry one.

Adapted from https://education.nationalgeographic.org

Questions:
1-Are these statements (True) or (False)? (03pts)

a-Nowadays, only 20% of forests in Europe remain. (……………………)

b-Most of deforestation happens in the Saharan areas. (……………………)

c-Burning trees causes deforestation. (……………………..)

2-Answer the following questions according to the text. (03pts)

a-Why have forests been damaged?..................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................................…………………

b-What happens if trees are burned?.................................................................................................................

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
c-Does soil erosion cause fire forests? Justify from the text……………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3-Find in the text words whose definitions are: (02pts)

The illegal exploitation of trees. …………………………………………………

The act of farming, planting trees and crops and raising animals………………………………….

4-Find in the text opposites to the following words. (02pt)

destruction (§1)#……………………………… plantation (§2)#........................................

5-Fill in the gaps with one word only.(01pt)

a-Burning forests is…………………………..(legal/illegal).

b-(Forestation/Deforestation) ……………………………………is cutting down trees.

6-Put the verbs between brackets in the right tense. (03pts)

a-When we (to heat) at 1000, it (to boil).…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

b-Water (to be) if we (to pollute) rivers with chemicals. …………………………………………………………………………………

d-What (to happen) if Aliens (to invade) the Earth?...............................................................................................

7-Classify the following words according to their number of syllables. (02pt)

forest, plantation, disagree, agriculture

1syllable 2syllables 3syllables 4syllables

8-Fill in the gaps with the words from the list. (04pts)

Illegal/ deforestation/ ban/ companies

……………….…………..is the ………………………………cutting of trees and excessive exploitation of forests by timber


…..………………………….which use the wood cut down from trees to make furniture such as tables, chairs and
doors. Governments should…………………………….this criminal act against the nature.

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