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Inside Reading Chapter 2

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One place that the drug companies are looking for new medicines are (a)   .

2.

Four hundred years ago, in (a)   a miracle drug that cured malaria was found in Peru.

3.

What is the name of the plant that the ancient people in China used to cure fever?

(a)  

4.

What is the name of the medicine that dates back over 2,000 years ago that the Greek physicians used it as a tea to ease pain and lower fever?

(a)  

5.

What is the name of the modern drug that has been found in the forests in the bark of the Pacific yew tree and that could stop cell growth?

(a)  

6.

Why do the priorities of the rainforest loggers conflict with the priorities of the scientists?

a)

Because loggers want to sell the medicine.

b)

Because loggers want to find the cure for most of disease.

c)

Because scientist want to find the cure and loggers want to cut and sell the trees.

d)

Because scientists want to cut the trees.

7.

How many types of plants, animals and insects disappear every year?

(a)  

8.

What is the thing that fears of the scientists the most if the rainforests would disappear?

a)

the villagers will disappear and the healers leave

b)

the animals and the insects will also disappear

c)

the trees will be cut

d)

the plants will be reduced

9.

How many percent of anti-cancer drugs originally came from rainforests?

(a)  

10.

Why do the modern drug companies send scientists to work cooperatively with village healers?

a)

to learn the secrets of the healers

b)

to find a useful cure in the plants and also identify their chemicals

c)

to find out new plants

d)

to learn about new rainforests

11.

The guitarist played with a piano ____________.

a)

accompany

b)

accompanied

c)

accompaniment

d)

accompanies

12.

My friend is going to ________ me to the bus station.

a)

reside

b)

accompany

c)

labor

d)

decline

13.

What is the synonym for decline?

a)

reconsider

b)

recover

c)

lesson

d)

lessen

14.

These parking spots are only __________ to people in wheelchairs.

a)

accessed

b)

accesses

c)

accessible

d)

access

15.

What is the synonym for the word 'occur'?

a)

try

b)

participate

c)

happen

d)

receive

16.

Doctors cooperated with scientists to develop a new drug. Their _______ resulted in an affective new medicine.

a)

cooperate

b)

cooperative

c)

cooperatively

d)

cooperation

17.

The verb ______ means to happen at the same time, but the noun ______ means a disagreement or a difference in ideas or plans.

a)

decline

b)

intensive

c)

conflict

d)

confrontation

18.

Which one from the given words below is not a synonym for the word "labor"?

a)

work

b)

work hard

c)

giving birth

d)

work at home