READING TEST STANDARD 3.1/3.2/3.3/3.

4 UNITS 3 & 4 ESO year 2 2020/21

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TEXT A

1 Read the fact file on a webpage. How many countries are in the Amazon rainforest?
Write the names (35 points)
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The Amazing Amazon

What:
largest rainforest in the world
7,000,000 square kilometres
Where:
stretches across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia and French Guinea
contains over half of the planet’s rainforest
Importance:
The plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. In this way they clean the
atmosphere, because carbon dioxide is a harmful greenhouse gas.
Scientists are very interested in the Amazon because different plants can cure different
illnesses. The Amazon people who know about these plants are called ‘medicine men’.
When they get old, they pass on their knowledge to their ‘apprentices’. These are younger
men who will eventually become medicine men.
One researcher, Drauzio Varella, from Brazil, is looking for a cure for cancer in the Amazon.
The work is difficult because there are lots of different plants in the rainforest. He and his
team test each one to find out if it has medicinal properties. This takes a long time. Another
problem is that the rainforest is getting smaller. This means fewer trees and plants, but also
animals lose their habitats. If people continue to destroy the rainforest, we will lose our
chance to discover valuable new medicines.

Vocabulary: rainforest (selva) harmful (dañino) knowledge (conocimiento) researcher

(investigador) valuable (valioso) country (país)

2 Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? (6x2.5=15 POINTS)
1 The Amazon Rainforest is in seven countries. __
2 Plants take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide. __
3 Carbon dioxide isn​’t​ a greenhouse gas. __
4 Plants in the Amazon can cure headaches. __
5 Drauzio Varella found a possible cure for cancer in the Amazon rainforest. __
6 Cutting down the trees in the rainforest is a problem for the Amazon people. __

3.Complete the sentences with the first conditional form of the verbs in brackets.
(5 x3 =15 points)

1 We ______ (go) to the beach if it _____ (be) sunny tomorrow.

2 Max and Sam ______ (get) a cold if they ______ (not wear) their coats.
3 If you _____ (cook) dinner, I _____ (do) the washing up.
4 We ______ (miss) the train if we ______(not leave) now.
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5 What _______ (you / do) if you _______

(not finish) your homework on time?

TEXT B
4.Read the text. Choose what it is about (a–c) (5 points)
a It’s about making friends.
b It’s about young millionaires.
c It’s about how to start a business.

Cameron Johnson 
When he was nine, Cameron Johnson started a business ​– ​making invitation cards. 
When he was 11, he earned several thousand dollars from the business. Before he left 
high school, it was worth $1,000,000! Now Cameron appears on TV shows. 

Fraser Doherty 
Fraser Doherty started making *jam when he was 14. He experimented with his 
grandmother​’s​ recipes to produce his own jam. Initially, he donated the money to 
Greenpeace. A supermarket asked Fraser to sell his jam in their stores. He wrote a jam 
cookbook and a business guide, S
​ uperBusiness​. 

* jam = la mermelada 

David and Catherine Cook 

Brother and sister team David and Catherine Cook became millionaires by turning a 
yearbook into a website. A yearbook contains pictures and information about students 
for a particular year. As they were looking at a school yearbook they got an idea ​– w
​ hy 
not put it online? Their website, myyearbook.com, made it easy to connect with friends. 
Their business is now worth about $100,000 million. 

Vocabulary: rainforest (selva) harmful (dañino) knowledge (conocimiento) researcher

(investigador) valuable (valioso) country (país)

5. Read the text again and choose the correct option. (60 points)
1 Cameron was ​9 ​/​ 11 ​when he started making money from his business.
2 Fraser ​/​ Cameron​ now appears on TV shows.
3 In the beginning Fraser gave the money he earned to ​his grandmother ​/​ Greenpeace.
4 Cameron ​/​ Fraser ​wrote a book.
5 David and Catherine created a ​website /​ ​ business guide​.
6 David and Catherine​’s​ business is worth ​$100,000 million ​/​ $1,000,000​.

6. Choose the correct option. (5x3= 15 points)

1 We ​won’t go / aren’t going​ to South America next year because we haven’t got enough
money.
2 Sarah ​isn’t going to / won’t go​ to study at Oxford University; she’s going to study at
Manchester University.
3 I think Irina i​s going to / will pass​ her exams.
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4 Steve and Juliet ​is going to / are going ​to get married in May; they’re very excited.
5 It rained every day this week. Maybe ​it is going to / will be​ sunny tomorrow.

7. ​Match 1–5 to A–E to form sentences. (5x 3 = 15 points)

1 If you don’t have something to eat now, ___
2 The planet will run out of water ___
3 Will we have enough food ___
4 Unless we stop killing them, ___
5 I won’t buy that jacket ___

A if the population continues to increase?

B unless we stop wasting it.
C you’ll feel hungry later.
D if it’s too expensive.
E whales will become extinct.

Total mark: /160