October 17-23, 2005

Warming causes record Arctic ice melt
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1. How big is the Arctic sea ice area now?
A. 250,000 square kilometres
B. 5.31 million square kilometres
C. 7.00 million square kilometres
D. 21.9 million square kilometres

2. When was the ice area in the Arctic measured to be smaller than now?
A. never
B. 1905
C. 1978
D. 2000

3. What do scientists blame the melting of the Arctic ice on?
A. sun storms
B. warm snow
C. greenhouse gases
D. extraterrestrial activities

4. What consequences is global warming expected to have?

A. rising sea levels

B. meteorite collisions
C. tilting of the EarthÕs axis
D. evaporation of the atmosphere

5. The melting ice endangers what kind of wildlife?
A. worms and ticks
B. moles and gofers
C. hornbills and bats
D. seals and polar bears


Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?
6. build-up
A. thinning
B. diffusion
C. break-up
D. accumulation

7. monitor
  A. melt
B. protect
C. support
D. observe

8. at least
A. usually this much
B. this much or more
C. never more than this
D. always less than this much

9. drop
A. sink
B. grow
C. shrink
D. stack up

10. echo
A. ignore
B. repeat
C. change
D. contradict

 

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