Reading and Comprehension Questions pag 52 SMART SKILLS

 

1. Our compassion for animals should be non-discriminatory

2. Air pollution has numerous consequences

3. Performing animals should be released

4. To save the rainforests we should buy renewable products

5. Active enviromental campaigning should be tackled by individuals

 

Vocabulary Building Exercises pag 53 SMART SKILLS

 

Es A

resources	respect
prevent	discourage
active	emissions
protect	affects
convince	awareness
stray	threat
affection	recycling
adopt	processing
extinction	products
poachers	goods
protest	existence
deprive	donate

 

Es B

1) ozone layer

2) renewable resources

3) global warming

4) solar / nuclear energy

5) chemical waste

6) enviromental issues

7) acid rain

8) rubbish dump

 

Es C

1) People all over the world should by all means try to reverse the enviromental damage

2) To conserve resources, please reuse this carrier bag.

3) Ecologists are fighting hard to preserve the Amaconian rainforest.

 

Es D

1) take action, measures, a course, a bus, a train, a test, a break, a rest, sth for granted, sides

2) run a risk, a campaign, a nerrand, a car, a house, a business

 

Es A pag 54 SMART SKILLS

1)Ian works hard. He works like a slave

2)Betty hasn’t seen Jane lately.

3)Jeremy sent a letter to the university asking for further information.

4)It was the least Jane could do to help

5)Terry is the eldest child in the family

6)The more you study, the better grades you get.

7)The soldier was badly wounded during the battle.

8)Laura musn’t speak so rudely to her teachers

9)The weather is getting worse and worse

10) This chair is much cheaper than the one we bought

11) She spoke very politely and let us enter the building

12)They left very awkward. They were like fish out of water

 

Es B pag 54 SMART SKILLS

1)It is widely known that exams are very competitive and sometimes affect students in a negative way

2)Today, the car industry is considered to be highly profitable

3)The student was deeply hurt when he saw the results of hif exam

4)I ma very worried about him because I haven’t seen him lately. I don’t kow what is really going on

5)Close friends help you talk freely and express you thoughts and worries

6)He could hardly understand what she was trying to tell him

 

Es C

1)I went to N.Y. last night.

2)The child ran into his classroom quickly a few minutes ago.

3)Jennifer eas born at 11:45 on Monday, Novermber 20^th 1996.

4)Dorothy was studying quietely in her room all evening.

5)He often stays home at night.

6)They live in a house in the suburbs.

 

Es D

♦ You have never seen such an intelligent student. He’s the most intelligent I have ever seen.

♦Samantha is the best pianist of all. She is a better pianist than anyone else. No one plays the piano as well as she.

♦Mary is very friendly. Mary bahaves in a very friendly manner.

♦Our jeans look the same. My jeans are similar to yours. My jeans are the same as yours.

♦The film you saw yesterday was very bad. It’s the worst film I have ever seen.

 

Es E

1) true

2)constantly

3)effecttively

4)nevative

5)icreasingly

6)apparent

7)deliberately

8)good

9)most

10)more

11)more