Saving the Rainforest and Our Health
Unit 2 TEST
Reading (45 points)
A Read the article.
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/SAVING THE RAINFOREST AND OUR HEALTH
1 Malaria is a very dangerous disease and it has spread to more and more areas around the world. What is the reason for this? A group of scientists went to Malaysia to find out why malaria was spreading among the population.2 The scientists knew that in the past, malaria was only found in monkeys that live in the rainforest. The monkeys carry the disease, and then the disease is carried from the monkeys
to people by mosquitoes*. A mosquito first bites a monkey and then it bites a person. The scientists wanted to discover why this was happening more often now than in the past.
3 Kimberly Fornace, one of the scientists in the group, discovered the reason. She found out that the people who caught malaria lived in areas where the rainforests were cut down. Many trees were cut down in the Malaysian rainforest in order to clear land for farming and to use
the wood for building. Without trees to live in, the monkeys left the forest to look for food.
This brought them, and the disease they carried, closer to people in the nearby villages.
4 “This information will help doctors understand where the disease can develop,” Fornace says, “It can then help them protect the population from this form of malaria and treat people with the right medicine.”
5 Scientists have found that there is also a connection between the destruction of the rainforests and the spread of other serious diseases, such as ebola. It is important, therefore,
to take action in order to save not only the rainforests, but people’s lives as well.
*mosquitoes יתושים / بعوض
B Answer the questions about the article.
1 What do we learn about malaria from paragraph 1? 6 points
a. why malaria is so dangerous
b. why malaria has spread
c. where malaria has spread
d. how malaria spreads
2 What did scientists want to find out? (paragraph 2) 6 points
3 Complete the sentences to show how people get malaria. (paragraph 2) 2 x 4 = 8 points
A mosquito 1. .
Then 2. .
The result is that the person becomes sick with malaria.
4 Give TWO reasons why people cut down trees in Malaysia. 2 x 3 = 6 points
(paragraph 3)
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5 What TWO things happened as a result of people cutting down 2 x 4 = 8 points
trees in the rainforest? (paragraph 3)
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6 Give ONE way that Fornace’s discovery can help doctors. (paragraph 4) 5 points
7 Why does the writer mention ebola in paragraph 5? 6 points
Vocabulary (20 points)
A Complete the sentences with the words below. 10 x 1 = 10 points
fit complete breathe continent aware
earn impress by accident became extinct so far
1. Don’t get angry with him. He broke the window ......
2. Adam jumped off the high wall because he wanted to ...... his friends.
3. “Your work isn’t finished,” my teacher told me. “You must ...... it by tomorrow.”
4. My father wants me to be more ...... of the need to save water. He told
me to use less water when I shower.
5. Danny decided that he would go running every day to get ...... and healthy.
6. The students have walked ten kilometers ...... today. They have another five kilometers to walk before they arrive at the camp.
7. Australia is the smallest ...... on the planet.
8. Dinosaurs ...... 65 million years ago.
9. Debbie is looking for a job because she needs to ...... money.
10. Please open a window and let in some fresh air. It is hard to ...... in this room.
B Choose five of the words below. Write a sentence with each 5 x 2 = 10 points
that shows you understand the meaning of the word.
rely on instead of weather deep
upload unfortunately knowledge
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Grammar (20 points)
A Choose the correct answers. Pay attention to the time expressions. 5 x 1 = 5 points
1. Last night, Dana fell asleep while she reads / read / was reading a book.
2. Lisa was driving / drives / drove home when a cat suddenly ran onto the road.
3. While John and I were preparing / prepared / prepare dinner last night, the guests
were talking in the living room.
4. Last night we didn’t go out. Instead, we stayed / didn’t stay / weren’t staying
home and went to bed early.
5. Jeremy was playing football when he was breaking / breaks / broke his leg.
B Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below. 5 x 1 = 5 points
Use the Past Simple or Past Progressive.
prepare see go do walk
1. We ...... in the sunshine when suddenly it began to rain.
2. My brother was eating breakfast while I ...... my bag for school.
3. We went to the mall on the weekend and we ...... a movie.
4. What ...... you ...... last Tuesday at midnight?
5. I ...... straight home after school yesterday.
C Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below. 5 x 2 = 10 points
Use the Present Perfect, positive, negative or question form.
1. “How long ...... you ...... (know) Richard?”
“I ...... just ...... (met) him.”
2. Our school ...... (organized) trips to Poland every year since 1996.
My teacher ...... (be) there twice.
3. I ...... (see) the new James Bond movie yet. I ......
(hear) that it is terrific.
4. These factories ...... (pollute) the river. The government
...... recently ...... (pass) a law to solve this problem.
5. We ...... (live) in the same house for twelve years, but my
best friend ...... (move) four times in the past five years.
Writing (15 points)
Write a diary entry describing a party and something special that happened there.
Write at least 80 words.
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