Text Interpretation: Earth

Activity of text interpretation for students in the eighth year of elementary school. The various questions refer to the text Earth: the Planet of Life. The activity leads students to improve different reading skills.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Earth: the Planet of Life

So far, no other place in the universe, apart from the Earth, is known that meets the conditions for the existence of life. Human activities on our planet, however, have increasingly reduced these conditions.

The constant growth of the population and the consequent increase in consumption have been causing the progressive destruction of available resources and rapidly changing the environment.

Most living beings only use what they really need to survive. Man does not, because with his instruments and machines he is able to infinitely multiply the work that would be done by a single individual. Thus, it intensively and quickly appropriates resources and breaks the fragile and extremely complex balance of nature. In this way, it harms other living beings, often causing their total destruction.

The number of inhabitants of the planet, however, is growing non-stop, and many productive areas of the Earth have been, and continue to be, occupied without planning and inadequately exploited. If we continue to act like this, depleting nature's resources, in a short time there will only be environments on Earth that are unsuitable for life and with no possibility of recovery.

But a species like ours, capable of magnificent achievements in the arts, sciences and philosophy, he must know how to organize himself and find adequate solutions to guarantee his permanence in the Earth.

MATTOS, Neide Simões de et al. “Us and the environment”. São Paulo: Scipione, 1990. p.8-9. (The Universe of Science).

Questions

Question 1 - The text is intended for:

a) form an opinion in the reader.

b) entertain the reader.

c) inform the reader.

d) thrill the reader.

Questions 2 - Point out the causes, according to the text, of the continuous modification of the environment:

A:

Question 3 - "Human activities on our planet, however, have increasingly reduced these conditions." What conditions does the text refer to?

A:

Question 4 – The author of the text dialogues directly with the reader in the passage:

a) "So far, no other place in the universe is known […]"

b) "Most living beings only use what they really need to survive."

c) "The number of inhabitants of the planet, however, is growing non-stop, and many productive areas [...]"

d) “If we continue to act like this, depleting nature's resources […]”

Question 5 - By reading the last paragraph of the text, we can conclude that the author, in relation to the topic discussed, shows himself:

a) pessimistic

b) afraid

c) hopeful

d) indifferent

Question 6 – The text was built in a language:

a) cultured

b) informal

c) technique

d) scientific

Question 7 – In the passage “[…] it breaks the fragile and extremely complex balance of nature.”, the adverb “extremely” intensifies the sense of a:

a) noun

b) adjective

c) verb

d) adverb

Question 8 – In the segment "The number of inhabitants on the planet, although, it grows non-stop, and many productive areas […]”, the highlighted conjunction establishes a relationship of:

the explanation

b) conclusion

c) comparison

d) adversity

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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