NAME:

Nguyễn Xuân Quyến DATE: 2/4/2020

Extra Reading Comprehension Questions

(Unit 3, Page 34)

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

A. Answer the questions, according to information in the article.

1. Why do Doctors Without Borders and Coral Reef Alliance have excellent reputations?
They both use a higher percentage of their funds for their work not administration

expenses.
2. Who originally formed Doctors Without Borders?
300 doctors, nurses, and other staff including journalists formed Doctors Without

Borders.
3. What does MSF (Doctors Without Borders) believe?
 MSF believes medical care should be available to everyone regardless of where they live.
4. List two events in which MSF (Doctors Without Borders) offers assistance.
MSF offers assistance when catastrophic events overwhelm health resources and when
 people are neglected by their local health systems.
5. List three things that are threatening coral reefs.
 Pollution, overfishing, and rapid development threaten coral reefs.
6. What is the danger to corals if the current levels of stress does not change?
 Corals might become extinct within a few decades.
7. Who do Coral Reef Alliance volunteers work with?
 They work with the people and groups who depend on reefs for their survival.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS

B. Find the following terms in the article. Using context, write a definition of what each
term means according to the article.
1. three-pronged approach
Three approaches used simultaneously to solve a problem.


2. environmental footprint
 The effect that the tourism industry has on the environment, for example energy
consumption or waste disposal.


Summit 1, Third Edition Unit 3

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