Preview Reading Vocabulary Record

Level 3 Final Exam Readings

Name: ______

Number: ______

The Water Crisis

Instructions: Find the following words in the text (look under the heading ‘Paragraph’ to find where they are). Look each word up in your dictionary or translator and write the meaning in English and/or in Arabic. There are additional spaces at the bottom of the chart to add extra new vocabulary words. The first one has been done for you already!

Paragraph / Word / Phrase / Meaning
B / agriculture / Farming لعمل بالزراعة
A / annual
E / commodity
G / conserving
A / consumption
G / deforestation
D / developing countries
D / domestic
G / ecosystem
G / erosion
F / flush (verb)
H / global warming
B / irrigation
G / large-scale
F / leak (noun)
D / manufacturing
C / monetary
D / recycle (recycling)
A / renewable
G / sponge
F / tap (noun)
B / untrained / trained
A / upward trend
C / vast

Do We Inherit Our Health?

Instructions: Find the following words in the text (look under the heading ‘Paragraph’ to find where they are). Look each word up in your dictionary or translator and write the meaning. There are additional spaces at the bottom of the chart to add extra new vocabulary words.

Paragraph / Word / Phrase / Meaning
B / characteristic (noun)
E / common
F / enormous
C / family roots
H / faulty
H / gene replacement
D / gene(s)
B / generation
G / genetic blueprint
A / genetic inheritance
E / genetic predisposition
A / heart attack
E / inherit
G / modern medicine
D / probability
I / protective
G / revolutionize
(is revolutionizing)

Biomimicry

Instructions: Find the following words in the text (look under the heading ‘Paragraph’ to find where they are). Look each word up in your dictionary or translator and write the meaning. There are additional spaces at the bottom of the chart to add extra new vocabulary words.

Paragraph / Word / Phrase / Meaning
G / architect(s)
A / beak
C / burr(s)
D / consultant(s)
A / conventional
A / designer(s)
F / ecologically sound
E / ecosystem
D / entrepreneur(s)
C / fastener
D / function
A / kingfisher
E / lotus
F / maintenance
E / photosynthesis
A / property (properties)
G / termite
H / track record
A / tunnel(s)
C / Velcro
G / vent(s)
F / wisely