Secretaria de Estado da Educação, da Ciência e Tecnologia

3ª Gerência Regional de Educação

ECI Maria Lídia Rangel
Tenório – PB

Aluno (a): _______________________________________________________________________________

Data: 28/10/2021 IV Bimestre 2a série: (.......) A...(......) B

Read the text to check your predictions.

1. Choose the correct statement about the text.

a. The writer agrees with Hansen that climate change is occurring.

b. The writer agrees with the editor of The New York Times that climate change is dramatic.
c. The writer disagrees with Hansen and does not believe that the climate is changing.

2. Choose the fragment in which the writer makes a comment on Hansen’s paper.

a. “[…] a crucial difficulty many people have in differentiating weather and climate.” (2nd paragraph)
b. “The data show that change is real and substantial.” (5th paragraph)
c. “[…] greenhouse gas emission are quickly brought under control.” (6th paragraph)

3. Write T (true) or F (false) for each statement. Then, correct the false statements.

a. Robert wrote a book in climate change.

b. Robert believes that many people do not know the difference between weather and climate.
c. A region’s climate is the frequency of climate events.
d. Very cold days have become more frequent.
e. According to Robert, even more extreme weather is likely to happen soon.

4. Replace the icon ♦ with words from the text to complete the sentences below.

a. James E. Hansen and ♦ wrote a paper on climate change.

b. More people accept that climate is changing during hot spells, but a ♦ makes them change their
minds.
c. The frequencies of extreme weather events have changed ♦ over the last fifty years.
d. The condition to avoid more extreme weather is to control ♦.

5. Replace each icon ♦ with weather or climate to complete the sentence below.

The increasing frequencies of extreme ♦ events show that ♦ change is real and substantial.