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Issue 274 Newsademic.com™ – American English edition Activities
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Crisis in Brazil (Page 1)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Crisis in Brazil’.
Answer questions 1-16.

1. What is impeachment?

2. When and where are the 2016 Olympic Games being held?

3. What is Petrobas?

4. Who is Dilma Rousseff?

5. What is the Workers’ Party?

6. If Ms. Rousseff is impeached for how long will her Senate trial last?

7. Name the two houses or chambers in Brazil’s Congress.

8. What is Brazil now experiencing?

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Crisis in Brazil (Page 1) continued

9. Traditionally the host country’s head of state declare the Olympic games “open”
during a special ceremony. Why might this be a problem in Brazil this year?

10. What is Microcephaly?

11. What is inflation?

12. Of what is Ms. Rousseff being accused?

13. Which language is spoken in Brazil?

14. What do police and lawyers believe about the corruption scandal?

15. Who is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva?

16. How is the Zika virus spread?

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Volcano and Maya (Page 12)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Volcano and Maya’.
Check either true or false for the following statements.

TRUE FALSE

1.
The Maya had an impressive knowledge of the planets,
the stars and how the Sun seems to move across the sky.  
2.
Today, many ancient glyphs have not been deciphered,
or decoded.  
3. The Maya constructed impressive wooden buildings.  
4.
Some of the biggest cities were called Palenque, Tikal,
and Chichen Itza.  
5. The Maya civilization was in South America.  
6.
Some still speak Mayan languages and follow Maya
customs.  
7.
They believe that the Maya decline was caused by a big
volcanic eruption in Central America.  
8.
The Dutch researchers found volcanic ash above the
ground where the Maya lived.  
9.
The Maya created a system of writing that used symbols
called glyphs.  
10.
Big eruptions throw small amounts of volcanic ash high into
the atmosphere.  
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Venezuela’s electricity shortage (Page 9)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Venezuela’s electricity shortage’.
The answers to the questions are given for 1-8. Write the questions.

1. Q.

A. Oil.

2. Q.

A. Nicolas Maduro.

3. Q.

A. Hydroelectric power.

4. Q.

A. Hugo Chávez.

5. Q.

A. Barley.

6. Q.

A. Inflation.

7. Q.

A. Guri Dam.

8. Q.

A. American dollars.
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Chernobyl anniversary (Page 3)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Chernobyl anniversary’.
Draw a line to connect the correct links. The first is done for you.

Petro Poroshenko Contributor

Sarcophagus Pripyat

Statue of Liberty Chernobyl

“Ghost town” Decay

European Union Radiation

Belarus Exploded

Reactor Saint Paul’s Cathedral

Cancer Russia
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Polio vaccine switch (Page 15)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Polio vaccine switch’ and fill in the spider diagram
below with the details.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT EDWARD JENNER

POLIO POLIO ERADICATION

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Earth Day signing (Page 7)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Earth Day signing’.
Answer questions 1-8.

1. When and where did industrialization first begin?

2. What is the new five-year campaign launched this year by the Earth Day Network?

3. Name two greenhouse gases.

4. Who organized the first Earth Day? When was this?

5. Why are trees so important?

6. What is the Paris Agreement?

7. Why are special events held all over the world on Earth Day?

8. What are fossil fuels?

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World Map (Page 13)

Instructions: Solve these anagrams. Each answer is a country that appears on the
World Map. Each anagram has one extra letter. Together the extra
letters form another anagram. The answer is a mystery country. One is
already done for you.

1. EKAIRNIU I
U K R A I N E
2. SERLUASB

3. NAZEEEALUV

4. ODMABCDAI

5. A AT N I N Z A I

6. R U N N E FA I G H A C E

7. DUOCROAE

8. IUROOTNCEPR

9. K S A N O A LV I

Mystery country = I
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Issue 274 Elimination

Instructions: Read issue 274. Now eliminate from the list 13 pairs of words or phrases
that go together. You will have one word or phrase left over. That is
the answer. One pair is already done for you.

Sahel Free France Copernicus

El Salvador Dilma Rousseff Chernobyl

Baktun Hugo Chávez Shore

Petro Poroshenko Palenque Mitsubishi Motors

Calendar East India Company Petrobras

Paris Agreement Capybara Oil company

Axis powers Sentinel-1B Nicolas Maduro

Sikh Empire China Tetsuro Aikawa

Tikal Honduras Beaver

Odd one out =

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Issue 274 multiple choice quiz

Instructions: Read issue 274 and circle the correct answers for questions 1-10.

1. Who had the Koh-i-Noor recut to improve 6. Which of the following was the last to
its “sparkle”? become “polio free” in 2015?
a. Queen Elizabeth the Second a. Afghanistan
b. Prince Albert b. Western Pacific
c. King George the Sixth c. Nigeria
d. Shah of Persia d. Europe
e. Queen Victoria e. South East Asia
2. Which of the following did not take place 7. What position did Dilma Rousseff hold
during the Great American Interchange? before becoming president of Brazil?
a. Saber-toothed cats moved south a. Sports minister
b. Armadillos went north b. Energy minister
c. Deer and horses moved south c. Vice-president
d. Monkeys moved to North America d. Chief of Staff
e. Sloths went north e. Health minister
3. Who wrote the story about the statue and 8. Which of the following did not win a
the rope? Goldman Environmental Prize?
a. Herodotus
a. Leng Ouch
b. Cylon
b. Edward Loure
c. Plutarch
c. Máxima Acuña
d. Thucydides
d. Edward Jenner
e. Phaleron
e. Zuzana Caputová
4. Which of the following does not have a
border on Lake Chad? 9. Where is the Sahel?
a. Nigeria a. Africa
b. Cameroon b. On the Moon
c. Niger c. South America
d. Chad d. India
e. Sudan e. At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

5. Who traditionally keeps the keys to the 10. Where was the most powerful earthquake
Church of the Holy Sepulcher? ever recorded?
a. Coptic Monks a. Japan
b. A local Muslim family b. Tibet
c. Christian pilgrims c. Chile
d. Ethiopians d. Alaska
e. The pope e. Ecuador