Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer to each of the question. Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It's a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don‘t know it's raining. The trees grow so closely...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer to each of the question.
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It's a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don‘t know it's raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn't always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth's surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world's oxygen. One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world's species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth's rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
The following are the facts about rainforests, EXCEPT ___________.
A. The only places to see rainforests are in tropical zones.
B. The rainforest in Western Africa ranks second after the Amazon in South America in the covered area.
C. Rainforests account for about one sixth of the Earth's surface.
D. There’s a considerable variety of plants and animals in the rainforests.
Give the correctform of the verbs to complete the passage:
1. ____Conservation____ are alarmed by the rate at which tropical rainforests are being destroyed.(CONSERVE)
2. The athletes take part in the Olympic Games in the true spirit of ____sportsmanship____.(SPORT)
3. He examined the parcel ____suspiciously____, as he had no idea what it could be,(SUSPECT)
4. Leisure habit won't change much in the ____foreseen____ future.(SEE)
5. The conditions in the man's prison were ____inhuman____.(HUMAN)
6. I object strongly to the ____commercialization____ of sport.(COMMERCE)
7. A list of ____forthcoming____ events for the autumn is being prepared.(COME)
8. They frequently ____immobilize____ the traffic as they march through the streets.(MOBILE)
Give the correctform of the verbs to complete the passage:
1. ____Conservation____ are alarmed by the rate at which tropical rainforests are being destroyed.(CONSERVE)
2. The athletes take part in the Olympic Games in the true spirit of ___sportsmanship_____.(SPORT)
3. He examined the parcel ___suspiciously _____, as he had no idea what it could be,(SUSPECT)
4. Leisure habit won't change much in the ____ foreseeable ____ future.(SEE)
5. The conditions in the man's prison were ____humanitarian ____.(HUMAN)
6. I object strongly to the ____commercialism ____ of sport.(COMMERCE)
7. A list of _____coming ___ events for the autumn is being prepared.(COME)
8. They frequently ___ mobilize_____ the traffic as they march through the streets.(MOBILE)