This document contains an English reading comprehension passage about deforestation and its impacts on biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. It also discusses the UN's role in addressing deforestation. Additionally, it includes grammar exercises on topics like modal verbs, questions tags, and conditional sentences.
2. Reading Comprehension
1 1. July
2. Sell programs, look after visitors, act as guides, run the info points
3. The Carlton Shoe Company
4. Here's an Olympic athlete
5. Deforestation
6. Water, agricultural productivity, energy, soil conservation and flood
control
7. Nearly a quarter
8. The UN
2 Greenhouse, storehouse
3 1. Biodiversity
2. Conserve
3. Combine
4. Storehouse
5. greenhouse
3. Grammar
2 1. 13 million hectares
2. Wood for buildings/furniture, farming, oil
extraction
3. They absorb carbon and help regulate climate
4. Yes
5. We have to stop deforestation
6. Online
3 2. The land might be sold.
3. The trees should not be cut down.
4. Global warming must be taken seriously.
5. Donations ought to be made to the charity.
6. Can the fate of our planet be left to chance>
4. Grammar in Use
2 1. T
2. F
3. F
4. F
3 2. Will she?
3. Have you?
4. Should they?
6. Doesn’t she?
7. Didn’t he?
8. Wouldn’t they?
4 2. Can’t they?
3. Didn’t they?
4. Do they?
5. Do they?
6. Shouldn’t they?
