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Bicycles
Changing Time
Glass
Healthcare
Homonyms
Isaac Asimov
Jazz
Laughter
Lightning
Mr. Rogers
Nurseries
Rainforest
Extras
2. 1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is
NOT mentioned about
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V2
Bicycles
Changing Time
Glass
Healthcare
Homonyms
Isaac Asimov
Jazz
Laughter
Lightning
Mr. Rogers
Nurseries
Rainforest
Extras
2. 1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is
NOT mentioned about the Amazon
Rainforest?
Its precipitation
2. How can you describe the Amazon rainforest?
(Choose 2 answers)
(A)It rains all time there so the forest is always green.
(C)The plants are shaped so that rainwater can pour
off them.
3.Which of the following is true about the Amazon
Basin?
It is more than one-fifth of all the other rainforests in
the world.
4. Look at the end of paragraph 2. What does the
author refer to when he says "rich and diverse land"
at the beginning of paragraph 3?
2,000 birds and mammals in the Amazon rainforest
5.What does the sentence "people of Brazil farm in an
environmentally friendly way" mean in paragraph 3?
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White Elephant
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Amazon Rainforest
About 6% of the
earth is covered
by rainforests. The
largest rainforest
in the world is
theAmazon Basin,
which stretches
over 2.3 million square miles
in nine different South American countries.This
area is double the
length of all the
other remaining
rainforests in the
world. Brazil contains 60%of the
Amazonian rainforest, since it lies
at the mouth of
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They do not poison the soil when farming.
6.Which rainforest plant has more than one use?
The Bruti plant
7.What is the biggest problem related to the disappearance of the rainforest?
Cutting down trees
the river Amazon.
This river is the
second largest in
the world and contains more than
one-fifth of the
world's fresh water. The Amazon
rainforest is a type
of wet broadleaf
forest. The weather there is very
humid and warm
as it rains quite
a bit. Because of
the high rainfall,
the forest is very
rich and green.
The tree leaves
are pointed and
narrow so that the
raindrops can easily drop off wet
plants. This
tropical rainforest
has more living species than
the entire European continent.
There are over
400 types of insects living in one
single rain forest
tree for a total of
2.5 million species.
One square kilometer of rainforest may contain over 75,000
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types of trees
and approximately 438,000 different kinds of plants,
which comes to
a total of 90,000
tons of greenery
overall. The Amazon rainforest is
home to 2,000
birds and mammals, with one in
every five birds
in the world living there. Local farmers have
lived off this rich
and diverse land
for thousands of
years. They have
been able to find
food and water
here without destroying the land.
The Kayapo people of Brazil farm
in an environmentally-friendly way.
Instead of chemicals, they use
burned wood to
enrich the soil,
and plant banana
trees, which attract wasps.These
wasps then feed
on leafcutter ants
and get rid of
these harmful in-
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