Text interpretation, aimed at 8th grade students, allows for the improvement of diverse reading skills. The text in question has as its theme the ground pollution.
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Just as there is air pollution, by the gaseous residues and particles released by the chimneys and exhausts of vehicles, and water pollution, from the release of liquid waste from homes and industries, there is also pollution from soil. It is caused by the release of solid waste to the ground, again coming from homes and factories. Solid waste is what we usually call city waste.
A city of 1 million inhabitants needs to collect and transport around 100 garbage trucks daily! This, without counting the waste produced by industries.
But that's still not the biggest problem. The big difficulty is where to put all this garbage.
In general, a city's garbage is buried in landfills, or burned in incinerators, or composted in compost factories. But in many cities none of this is done. Garbage is simply thrown on vacant lots on the outskirts of the city, where they serve as an environment for the proliferation of flies, cockroaches, rats and vultures! And, as if that wasn't enough, the garbage, when it decomposes, produces a liquid called slurry, which infiltrates the soil causing their intoxication, which can make them sterile, in addition to polluting the waters of wells and sheets underground.
White Algiers. City Ecology. São Paulo: Modern, 1991.
Question 1 - Define the causes of the following pollutions:
a) air pollution:
b) water pollution:
c) soil pollution:
Question 2 - What is solid waste?
Question 3 - According to the author of the text, the problem lies in the fact that in several cities the garbage is:
a) “buried in landfills”.
b) “is burned in incinerators”.
c) “transformed into fertilizer in compost factories”.
d) “played on vacant lots on the outskirts of the city”.
Question 4 – In the second paragraph of the text, the use of the exclamation point emphasizes the feeling of:
anger
b) amazement
c) misunderstanding
d) fear
Question 5 - In the excerpt “[…] causing your intoxication, which can causethem sterile […]”, the underlined pronouns replace, considering the context:
a) landfills
b) the vacant lots on the outskirts of the city
c) the soils
d) underground wells and layers
Question 6 – In the passage "But this is still not the biggest problem.”, the underlined term establishes a relationship of:
a) addition
b) explanation
c) conclusion
d) opposition
Question 7 – The text has purposes:
a) didactic
b) journalistic
c) advertisers
d) scientific
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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