Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the interdependence between the sun, the cloud and the sheet of paper. Let's understand the relationship between these elements? To do this, read the text carefully and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh calls this relationship “inter-being”. He says that you don't have to be a poet to see on a simple sheet of paper the existence of the sun, clouds, earth, a lumberjack and a farmer. That's because without the light and heat of the sun, without the clouds that carry the rainwater, and without the earth with its nutrients, the tree, which is the raw material used to make the sheet of paper, would not have grown.
If a farmer had not planted wheat, there would have been no flour to make the bread that fed the woodcutter and gave him the strength and energy to cut that tree. And we could even add that without the driver who took the log to the paper mill, and the worker who worked there, the tree would not have turned into the white sheet of our notebook. In other words, we would have nowhere to write or draw if the sun, the cloud, the earth, the tree, the the farmer, the baker, the woodcutter, the driver, the paper mill worker and the stationery vendor who sold us the notebook.
Did you see how many beings worked so that a simple sheet of paper could exist and reach you? Therefore, the true nature of this sheet is not just made up of cellulose (the white substance taken from the tree to play the role), but all these elements that contributed to it existed. That's what the Buddhist monk meant when he said that we inter-are.
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Question 1 - In the passage “Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh calls this relationship 'inter-being'.”, what relationship does the text refer to?
Question 2 - In “[…] the tree, which is the raw material used to make the sheet of paper, would not have grown.”, the commas indicate:
( ) the omission of information.
( ) the intercalation of information.
( ) the displacement of information.
Question 3 – In the sentence "[…] without the light and heat of the sun […]", the underlined preposition expresses:
( ) missing.
( ) quite.
( ) goal.
Question 4 - In the part “If a farmer had not planted wheat, there would be no flour to make bread […]”, the author of the text:
( ) gives a suggestion.
( ) indicates a condition.
( ) exposes an assumption.
Question 5 - In the sentence “[…] the worker who worked in it […]”, the term “in it” refers to:
( ) to the paper mill.
( ) the tree.
( ) to the white sheet of our notebook.
Question 6 – In the passage “[…] we would not have Where write or draw […]”, the underlined word expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 7 – In the segment “[…] cellulose (the white substance removed from the tree to make paper) […]”, the excerpt in parentheses:
( ) explains the term “cellulose”.
( ) characterizes the term “cellulose”.
( ) complements the term “cellulose”.
Question 8 – Reread this text fragment:
“Did you see how many beings worked so that a simple sheet of paper could exist and reach you? Therefore, the true nature of this sheet is not just made of cellulose […]"
In this text fragment, the highlighted word introduces a fact:
( ) which concludes the above.
( ) that adds to the previous one.
( ) which contrasts with the above.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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