STUDY GUIDE (4 bimestre) importante driver of deforestation since the early

TEACHERS NAME : 1990s.

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STUDENTS NAME : ________________________
CLASS : 20 _____.
READ THE TEXTS THAT FOLLOW TO ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS FROM 1 TO 5.
TEXT I - Amazon rainforest
The Amazon forest,which covers
approximately 2.7 million square miles (7 million
sq km), is the worlds largest tropical forest.
Located mainly in Brazil, the Amazon rain forest
accounts for more than 20 percent of all the
worlds tropical forests. Known in Brazil as the
selva, the rainforest is a vast storehouse of
biological diversity,filled with plants and animals
both familiar and exotic.
TEXT II - Deforestation in the
Amazon,2004-2014 (square kilometers)
TEXT IV - Greenpeace campaign reduces
Amazon deforestation by 86%
Greenpeace is a non-governmental
environmental organisation founded in 1971 with
the goal of defending the natural world and
promoting peace by investigating, exposing and
confronting environmental abuse, and
championing environmentally responsible
solutions.
Since the turn of the century the situation in
the Brazilian Amazon was a cause for great
concern, with the second highest rate of annual
deforestation on record. To address the problem,
Greenpeace proposed a moratorium* on the
purchase of soy that came from deforested areas,
was associated with slave labour or encroached on
indigenous lands.
*moratorium : A moratria da soja foi um acordo voluntrio
promovido por aes diretas de ONGs (como a Greenpeace),
liderado por indstrias, empresas consumidoras e o governo, o
que garantiu que comerciantes fossem proibidos de comprar
soja cultivada na Amaznia em terras desmatadas aps 2006.

1- Based on texts II and IV, judge the

following items, and then choose the
correct alternative.

1. ( ) the soybean moratorium reveals about

a rise in the Brazilian economy and how it has
almost become the new vector of destruction in
the Amazon.

2. ( ) The graph ( text II) shows that the

rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
TEXT III started to decrease/fell in 2004.

Save the Amazon! 3. ( ) The graph ( text II) shows that there
was a great decline between 2008 and 2009.
Deforestation of tropical rain forests
4. ( ) The soybean moratorium has become
contributes to climate change. Brazil loses 4.3 an example of how industry, governments,
consumers and non-governmental
million (ha) of tropical forests
environmental organisation can together find
annually.Deforestation is by far the biggest solutions to environmental problems . The
soybean moratorium also influenced changes in
problem in the Amazon.Huge reas of rainforest
the country's public policies and formed the
are destroyed by clearing for agriculture, ilegal or basis for other forest protection agreements.
unsustainable logging for timber, and for industrial
or urban development.Industrial agricultural
production,especially soy farms, has also been an

Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas os itens 1,2 e 3 so corretos.
b) Apenas os itens 2 e 4 so incorretos.
c) Apenas os itens 3 e 4 so incorretos.
d) Apenas os itens 1,3 e 4 so corretos.
e) Todos os itens so corretos.
2. Based on texts II and III, judge the following
items, and then choose the correct alternative.
1. ( ) Tropical forests are disappearing because
of human intervention.
2. ( ) Deforestation of tropical rain forests
doesnt contribute to global warming.
3. ( ) Tropical rain forests release great amounts
of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ).
4.( ) If one foot matches to 30 centimeters
(average), so, a tree with 150 feet can grow up
45 meters in height.
(Nota : 1 FOOT = 30 cm / 100cm = 1 metro)
Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas o item 3 incorreto.
b) Apenas os itens 3 e 4 so incorretos.
c) Apenas os itens 2 e 3 so incorretos.
d) Apenas os itens 1, 2 e 4 so incorretos.
e) Apenas o item 4 correto.
3. Based on ideas and linguistic structure
from the text I and III , judge the
items that follow . And then, choose the
correct sequence.
1. ( ) The text I declares only about the
causes and consequences of deforestation .
2. ( ) In the sentence Industrial agricultural
production,especially soy farms, has also been an
importante driver of deforestation since the early
1990s., there isnt an agent in the passive
voice.
3. ( ) Both texts I and III declare about the of
causes and consequences of deforestation in
Amazon.
4. ( ) We usually omit the agent in the passive
voice when it is not important or when it refers to
people,humans.
Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas os itens 1 e 4 so incorretos.
b) Apenas os itens 2 e 4 so corretos.
c) Apenas os item 3 correto.
d) Apenas os item 1 incorreto.
e) Todos os itens so corretos.
4. Based on texts I and II, it cannot be
inferred that :
a) ( ) According to the graph, the least
rates of deforestation in the Amazon
occured after 2009, compared to before
years.
b) ( ) The graph illustrates that
deforestation in the Amazon was caused by
a natural disaster .
c) ( ) Rainforests are healthy to the
environment.
d) ( ) Its more likely that the variety of
many plants may be reduced in the period
from 2000 to 2008 compared to the period
between 2009 and 2014.
5. A alternativa correta que expressa a
voz passiva da frase Greenpeace
proposed a moratorium on the purchase
of soy (text IV), :
a) A moratorium on purchase of soy were
proposed by Greenpeace.
b) A moratorium on purchase of soy has
been proposed by Greenpeace.
c) A moratorium on purchase of soy was
proposed by Greenpeace.
d) A moratorium on purchase of soy was
being proposed by Greenpeace.
e) A moratorium on purchase of soy were
been proposed by Greenpeace.