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    READING AND COMPREHENSION

BETTER RICE, LESS GLOBAL WARNING 


Good news about rice, the most important cereal crop in the world. Rice plants which produce higher yields are less harmful to the environment because they make less of the greenhouse gas methane. Scientists say new varieties of rice will make more grain and also contribute to less global warning.
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, and rice fields are among the biggest sources of methane. It’s produced by bacteria living in the wet soil of the paddy field, the flooded field where rice is grown.
Now scientists from Europe and the Philippines have discovered that less methane is made in the fields where the plants are producing more grain. The reason is that making methane needs carbon.
Plants absorb carbon from the air. They use some for making grain and some fields its way to the roots and then into the soil, where the bacteria can use it to produce methane. So if more carbon is tied up in making grain, there’s less in the soil, and that means less methane.
Rice is one of the cheapest sources of food energy and protein, with half the world’s population depending on it. But rice yields vary widely from region to region. A few months ago scientists revealed the genome sequence if rice – a tool of great potential use to researchers of trying to develop new varieties of rice with higher yields.
The latest research will now help guide scientists towards the genes they can work with to design those new varieties of rice and at the same time help to protect the environment.

Vocabulary:
Crop: plantação, safra                                                  Latest: mais recente
Flooded: alagado                                                       Paddy Field: arrozal
Greenhouse effect: efeito estufa                                  Root: raiz
Harmful: prejudicial                                                    Tied up: amarrado, preso
Yield: rendimento                                                       Tool: instrumento                              


A. Answer these questions in Portuguese.

1. Existe uma relação de causa e efeito expressa no título? Justifique.
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2. O texto revela um problema ambiental relacionado à produção de arroz. Qual?
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3. E o que dizem os resultados de uma pesquisa recente sobre o assunto?
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GRAMMAR

A. Complete the text with the superlative form of the adjectives in parentheses.

            China is a land of superlatives. It is ____ ___________ (large) country in East Asia and ____ _____  ___________ (populous) – 1.27 billion people – in the world. It contains the Great Wall of China, which is the world’s _____________ (long) human-made structure, and some of the world’s _____ ___________ (ancient) architecture. It is home to some of the world’s ___________(tall) buildings. China shares with Nepal the world’s ___________ (high) mountain – Everest - , and has the fourth ___________ (large) desert – Gobi – and the fifth ___________ (long) river – The Yangtze. Things are happening so fast that in just 10 years China will be ____ _____ ___________ (powerful) economy in the world. How do you say “Hi, boss!” in Chinese?

B. Complete as frases com as formas de comparativo dos adjetivos entre parênteses. Oriente-se pelas indicações de igualdade (=), superioridade (+)ou inferioridade (-) em cada caso.

1. Your new computer is  ___________________________ mine. (= fast)
2. This new govern is___________________________ the last one. (+popular)
3.Some movies are _________________________ others. (- sensational)
4. His grades were __________________________ mine. (+bad)
                                                                                                                                     

C. Choose the correct alternative.

1. Grace is _________________ girl in our class.
            a) as intelligent as                                           b) more intelligent than
            c) the most intelligent                                       d) the more intelligent

2. Geraldine Ferraro is ________________ than Walter Mondale.
            a) least famous                                                             b) little famous
            c) the least famous                                          d) less famous

3. Helen is _________________ all those people.
            a) the most generous of                                   b) more generous
            c) the more generous                                        d) most generous

4. Papyrus was used ________ than paper.
               a)– early                           b)– earlyer                       c)– earlier                 d)– earliest

5. His wife is ______ than his sister.
               a)– prettier                         b) – prettiest                   c) – pretty                  d)– the prettiest

6. Our next examination may be _______ the last one.
   a)– more bad than               b)–  bad than                c)– worst than             d)– worse than

7. Health is ________ than wealth.
a)– good                                  b)– the best                  c)-  better                     d)- best than

8. This book is _______ the last one we used.
a)– worst than                          b)– worse than             c)– gooder than           d)– best than

9. This exercises seems to be ________ than the last one.
a)– bad                                    b)– very bad                 c)– worse                    d)– the worst

10. The dictionary you bought at that book store is ________ mine. 
a)– better                                 b)– as good as              c)– good                       d)–  the best


D. Complete the sentences. Use the comparative or the superlative:

1. Ann’s idea wasn’t very good. My Idea was _____________________ hers.
2.He isn’t very interesting. You’re ______________________ him.
3. She is a very good Singer. She is ____________________ in our country.
4. It was a very bad mistake. It was _____________ mistake I’ve ever done.

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES.


    A- COMPLETE THIS NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, USING COMPARATIVES.

BIG CITIES ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THEY USED TO BE


            People are thinking about moving from large cities to the country. Some think that life there is _____________ (cheap); others think the country is  __________ (clean), ____________ (safe), and __________________________ (polluted). In the country, there certainly is more space, school are ___________________ (crowded), classes are _____________ (small) ands the kids can get ___________ (good) education and a ___________ (healthy) life. Although, many seem to think, big cities are __________________ (exciting), they are ________________ (dirty) and ________________________ (dangerous).


B-  Complete the sentences. Then, answer the questions.

a) Which is _________________ (large) ocean, The Pacific or the Atlantic?
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b) What is __________________(long) river?
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c) What’s ________________________ (fast) animal?
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d) Which animal is ___________________ (light), the humming bird or the hamster?
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e) What’s _________________ (big) continent?
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f) What’s the  ______________ (small) country?
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C- Complete the sentences using the comparative and  the superlative.

a) My brother is ______________ (tall) my sister, but she is ___________________(intelligent) him.

b) Do you like your tea ________________(sweet)?

c) He wanted to be _____________ (rich).

d) These trees are __________________ (small) those ones.

e) His compositions were ______________ (short) but ________________________(interesting) then ours.

f) You are surely ________________ (good) pilot here.

g) Hellen is ______________ (generous) of all those people.

h) My wife is _____________ (good) cook in the world.

i)Grace is ___________________________ (intelligent) girl in our class.

j) The blue whale is ___________________ (heavy) mammal in the world.




             

  

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