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Bai Tap Ren Luyen Ky Nang in The Textbook - All Tasks - U4
Bai Tap Ren Luyen Ky Nang in The Textbook - All Tasks - U4
Task 5-F-p.103
Look back at Reading 1 and match each title to the most appropriate
paragraph.
Paragraphs:
2 4 10 12 13 14 15 19 20 23
1. Seventy-five Percent of Plant Paragraph. …………….
Varieties Already Lost
2. Organizing Previously Paragraph. …………….
Uncoordinated Efforts
3. Finding Out More about Plant Paragraph. …………….
Genes
4. Funding from Around the World Paragraph. …………….
5. Global Seed Vault Begins Paragraph. …………….
Operations
6. Geographical Motivation for an Paragraph. …………….
Alternative Plan
7. Many Seed Banks Exposed to Paragraph. …………….
Conflicts and Disasters
8. Safeguarding Against Negative Paragraph. …………….
Climate Changes
9. Previous Seed Banks Not Focused Paragraph. …………….
on Survival
10. Farmers Growing Fewer, More Paragraph. …………….
Vulnerable Crops
Task 6-A-p.104
Answer:
1. -
2. -
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
Task 7-B-p.105
Read each statement. What can you infer from the information in the
statement? Write your inferences. Then compare your inferences with a
partner.
1. Statement: Bored into the middle of a snow-topped Arctic mountain, the seed
vault has as its goal the storing of every kind of seed from every collection on the
planet.
Inference: As many of the world's seeds as possible need to be stored in a safe
place that is cold and far away.
2. Statement: Mexico is the perfect place for corn seeds to be banked.
Inference:
3. Statement: Scientists cheered when the United Nations International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources finally created a formal global network for banking seeds
and studying their genetic traits.
Inference:
4. Statement: In the Philippines, a typhoon demolished the wall of a seed bank,
destroying many valuable samples.
Inference:
Task 11-F-p.111
Task 12-G-p.112
Match the following people in Reading 2 with the statements that best
describe them.
a. Chris Hadfield b. Akihiko Hoshide c. Roman Romanenko
d. Gwenn Sandoz e. Edward Tabarah f. Robert Thirsk
___ 1. An official in the Canadian Space Agency who comments on Hadfield's
Command and is together with Hadfield just before his mission.
___ 2. The first Canadian to spend a long time in space on a mission.
___ 3. An astronaut trainer who worked with Hadfield to help prepare him for his
mission.
___ 4. A Canadian astronaut with many years of experience preparing to become
the commander of Expedition 35 to the International Space Station.
___ 5. A Russian cosmonaut who is going to the International Space Station
with Hadfield.
___ 6. An astronaut who fixed a broken part of the International Space Station with
a toothbrush during a six-hour spacewalk.
Task 13-H-p.113
Answer the following questions based on the information in Reading 2. You
will have to infer some of your answers.
1. Why does Hadfield call the International Space Station the world's
spaceship?
Answer:
6. Why did Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide improvise with a toothbrush
to fix the faulty bolt and clear out the blockage?
Answer:
7. What does Hadfield mean by saying the space program "goes in waves?"
Answer:
10.What does Hadfield mean by saying that the International Space Station is
like a scientific monastery?
Answer:
Task 14-A-p.115
Write the correct prefix from the box next to its definition below and on page
116. Then write as many words as you know that can use each prefix and their
parts of speech. Check your answers in a dictionary and add to the chart if
possible.
bio- cryo- dis- geo- im- inter- mal- multi- non- re-
Prefix Definition Possible words Possible parts of
speech
1. multi- more than one; multicolored, nouns, adjectives
many multimillionaire
2. non- not
3. cryo- involving the use
of very low
temperatures
4. im- (also il-7in- / ir-),
not; the opposite
of
5. geo- of the earth
6. re- again
7. inter- between; from
one to another
8. mal- bad or badly; not
correct or
correctly
9. dis- not; the opposite
of
10. bio- connected with
living things or
human life
Task 15-B-p.116
Complete each sentence with the correct prefix from the chart.
1. When parts of the Soyuz spacecraft break down, they need to be
replaced before the Soyuz can travel to the International Space Station.
2. Some scientists use ____-preservation to store banana plant shoots.
3. The design of the Soyuz spacecraft is so strong that even if there are a couple of
____functions, the crew will most likely land safely on Earth.
4. One of the main goals of the Global Seed Vault is to preserve the ____diversity
of the world's edible plant species.
5. The scientists working on the International Space Station don't worry about
____politics because it's their job to solve engineering problems.
6. The Global Seed Vault is run by a(n) ____profit group.
7. The space station was built by a(n) ____national partnership.
8. The ____governmental panel came to theconclusion that extreme
weather events were going to increase in the future.
9. The age of the Soyuz spacecraft is ____material because its design is robust.
10. Plant species are ____appearing at a very fast rate all around the world.