Exam practice: Reading Unit 7

A2 Key Part 3 3 For each question, choose the correct answer.

1 In multiple choice (A, B or C) reading questions, Apps to save animals

what should you do?
The world has lost half of its wildlife in the
a Only write an answer if you are sure it is right. last 40 years, and things will get worse
b Read the text slowly before you look at the unless we make big changes. Scientists
questions. predict that almost 90% of all animals will
lose some of their habitat – for example,
c Cross out answer options (A, B or C) if you are sure forests – by 2050.
they are wrong. Many people around the world are trying to find
ways to save wildlife before it is too late. One company
2 Look at the photos and complete the sentences had an unusual idea: saving wildlife by making apps.
with the correct form of wild animal words. One of the company’s apps lets you take a selfie with a
bear, a rhino and other animals, using Augmented Reality
1
(AR). It looks like the animal is really there in your photo,
but of course it isn’t! Another app challenges you to
run further than a real snow leopard or a tiger. You can
read stories about what the animal is doing and where
it is going. There’s also a game that shows you some
of the things scientists are doing to save wildlife. In this
There are around 3,000 in India. game you are a scientist finding out about wild animals
in forests in South-East Asia. You can look at hundreds
2 of wildlife photos that real scientists took there and learn
about the scientists’ work.
Gautam Shah, who started the company, believes that
we will only be able to save our planet’s animals if enough
young people want to make big changes. He wants to
make young people – and older people – interested in
wildlife through his company’s fun apps. 2,100,000,000
The biggest are 4 metres long!
people around the world play games on their mobile
3 phones. If all these people are also interested in wildlife,
maybe they can change the world.

1 How much of its wildlife has the world lost in the last
40 years?
A 25%
kill more people than sharks! B 50%
4 C 90%
2 In paragraph 1, the word habitat is closest in
meaning to .
A home
B food
There are eight different kinds of . C family
5 3 What can you do with the first app mentioned in
the text?
A see videos of rhinos
B learn about bears
C take photos
are good at climbing and often sleep 4 Who took the wildlife photos in South-East Asia that
in trees. you can see in the game?
Exam tip A Gautam Shah
In exams, always answer all the questions. You do not B young people
lose marks for incorrect answers. In multiple-choice C scientists
activities, cross out any answers which you know 5 What does Gautam Shah want to do?
are incorrect.
A make more people interested in wildlife
B stop young people playing games on their
mobile phones
C become a scientist

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Exam practice: Reading Unit 7

A2 Key Part 4
1 Look at the photo and the title of the text in
exercise 3 and guess the answers to these
questions. Then read the text quickly and check
your ideas.
a It’s a famous waterfall.
b There aren’t many animals there.
c There’s a forest there.
d It’s in Brazil and Argentina.
2 Look at the words in each group. Which is the odd
one out?
1 snake monkey beach penguin
2 river fog mountain valley
3 owl lizard jellyfish forest
4 plants butterfly flowers grass
T/F
5 wind storm cloud waterfall
T/F
T/F Exam tip
T/F Before you read a text, look at the title and any
pictures or paragraph headings. Imagine what the
text is about and think about any knowledge and
vocabulary you already have on the topic. This helps
you to understand the text when you read.

3 For each question, choose the correct answer.

Iguazú Falls
On the Iguazú River (1) Brazil and
Argentina, there’s a famous waterfall that is almost 3 km
wide. It’s actually almost 300 waterfalls in one place, and
they’re (2) the Iguazú Falls. Around the
waterfalls there’s a large forest with (3)
than 2,000 different kinds of plants, 400 kinds of birds,
many different insects and more than 80 other kinds of
animals. Most (4) to Iguazú Falls see an
animal called a coati. This animal is about the same
(5) as a cat, with a long nose and a
long tail. There are also monkeys and many beautiful
butterflies. The waterfalls are amazing, but visitors
should remember to (6) at the wildlife too!

1 A under B over C between

2 A called B said C told
3 A bigger B better C more
4 A passengers B visitors C people
5 A size B body C thing
6 A see B look C watch

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