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UNIT 4 LISTENING QUIZ

Name: __Luong Thanh Nhan_____________________________ Date: _______20/3/24_______

PART A KEY SKILLS


DISTINGUISHING MAIN IDEAS FROM DETAILS
1 4.1 Listen to a talk about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Match the main ideas (a–e) with the
parts of the talk (1–3) in which they appear.

Part of the talk Main ideas


1 Giving background information A, c
2 Explaining a problem d, e
3 Offering a solution b

a The discovery of the GPGP


b How to clean up the GPGP
c The size of the GPGP
d How the GPGP was created
e The effect of plastic on marine animals

2 4.1 Listen again. Then match the details below with the main ideas (a–e) in Exercise 1.

1 Moore decided to take a shortcut to get home. _a____

2 The California Current carries a plastic water bottle from Los Angeles to Mexico. _d____

3 The birds think bits of plastic are fish eggs. _e____

4 From outer space, the GPGP looks like the Great Wall of China. __c___

5 The platforms could be made of wood or metal. ___b__

PART B PRONUNCIATION FOR LISTENING


SENTENCE STRESS
3 4.2 Listen to the excerpts from the talk. Underline the words the speaker stresses.
1 What he found in this wild, lonely area was trash: miles and miles of plastic waste.
2 No matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere.
3 Do the actions of one person really impact the world?
4 Now, the problem with plastic is that it does not biodegrade.
5 The plastic waste is breaking down into tiny pieces, full of toxic chemicals, that marine animals are
eating.
6 There really is no way for these animals to adapt to changes like these in their environment.

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Name: __Luong Thanh Nhan_____________________________ Date: _______20/3/24_______

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UNIT 4 LANGUAGE QUIZ

Name: ______Luong Thanh Nhan_________________________ Date: ___20/3/24___________

PART A KEY VOCABULARY


1 Complete the text with the correct form of the words in the box.

adapt coastal conservation exploit habitat impact modify waste wilderness

Help us protect our natural resources!

Our goal at Lakeside Villages is the (1)


____conservation__________ of marine (2)
____wilderness__________ in Lake Congee. We are fortunate to have more than 500 miles of (3)

______coastal________ property here and we want to make sure that we control the (4)

_____habitats_________ that we have on our natural environment. Our goal is to (5)


_____adapt_________ to our environment, not to change it.

Accordingly, we have (6) _____modify_________ our regulations to include the following:

● All plastic, glass, paper, and metal (7) ___waste___________ must be recycled.

● No fishing is allowed. We cannot (8) ____impact_________ our natural reserves of marine wildlife by
fishing.

● There will be no development of (9)


____exploitation__________ along the north shore of the lake.
We want to keep this area in its natural state.

Thank you for your cooperation.

2 Match the words in bold with their definitions.

1 Copper has been used in electrical wiring since the invention of the telegraph in the 1800s.

2 Animals, like humans, need vitamins and minerals to survive. ___a__

3 The diamond in this ring was created in a laboratory. _e____

4 Burning natural gas produces fewer toxins than burning other types of fossil fuels. _b____

5 Many birds fly south to avoid the harsh conditions of winter. __c___

6 Underground mining can damage the environment. __d___

a natural substances found in the earth such as coal or gold


b fuel for heating or cooking that is found underground
c severe and unpleasant
d the industry or activity of removing valuable substances from the earth

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UNIT 4 LANGUAGE QUIZ

Name: ______Luong Thanh Nhan_________________________ Date: ___20/3/24___________

e a very hard, valuable stone, often used in jewelry


f a reddish-brown metal, used in electrical equipment and for making wires and coins

PART B LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT


MULTI-WORD PREPOSITIONS
3 Complete the paragraph with the correct prepositions.

According (1) _________to___________ a recent report, the populations of around 75% of animal species in
this country are declining due (2) _______to_____________ human activities. Apart (3)
____from________________ obvious causes such as hunting, the main reasons for the decline appear to be
habitat destruction, together (4) ______with______________ pollution. This problem affects all parts of the
country, except
(5)
_______for_____________ the mountains in the far north, where few animals or people live.

THE PAST PERFECT


4 Complete the text with the past perfect form of the verbs in parentheses.
About 20 years ago – in early 1997 – a man named Charles Moore was sailing home across the North Pacific
Ocean. He (1) _________had finished___________ (finish) a sailing race and was heading back from Hawaii
to Santa Barbara, California. Rather than taking the usual route, he (2) ___________had decided_________
(decide) to take a thousand-mile “shortcut” through a high-pressure area in the central Pacific Ocean, where
few people
(3)
______had gone______________ (go).

What he found in this wild, lonely area was trash: miles and miles of plastic waste. As he reported, “In the
week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating
everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers … parts of TVs, volleyballs, truck tires.” Based on what he
(4)
___________had found_________ (find), he calculated the total weight of the trash to be about three
million tons. The area Moore (5) ______had discovered______________ (discover) is now called the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP.

VERBS TO DESCRIBE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE


5 Complete the summary with the correct form of the verbs in the box.

adapt affect decline exploit survive

We are only beginning to comprehend how our actions (1) _________affect___________ the world. We know
that the populations of certain animals, such as polar bears, have (2) _____declined_______________ in
recent years. We believe that these bears cannot (3) _______adapt_____________ to a warmer climate.

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UNIT 4 LANGUAGE QUIZ

Name: ______Luong Thanh Nhan_________________________ Date: ___20/3/24___________

Other animals, such as the Javan rhinoceros, have been (4) _______exploited_____________ by hunters for
huge profits. Today only 40–60 Javan rhinoceros still (5) _______survive_____________ on the island of
Java.

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