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WorksheetsInside Reading Chapter 2
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 14mins
One place that the drug companies are looking for new medicines are (a) .
Four hundred years ago, in (a) a miracle drug that cured malaria was found in Peru.
What is the name of the plant that the ancient people in China used to cure fever?
(a)
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)
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)
Why do the priorities of the rainforest loggers conflict with the priorities of the scientists?
Because loggers want to sell the medicine.
Because loggers want to find the cure for most of disease.
Because scientist want to find the cure and loggers want to cut and sell the trees.
Because scientists want to cut the trees.
How many types of plants, animals and insects disappear every year?
(a)
What is the thing that fears of the scientists the most if the rainforests would disappear?
the villagers will disappear and the healers leave
the animals and the insects will also disappear
the trees will be cut
the plants will be reduced
How many percent of anti-cancer drugs originally came from rainforests?
(a)
Why do the modern drug companies send scientists to work cooperatively with village healers?
to learn the secrets of the healers
to find a useful cure in the plants and also identify their chemicals
to find out new plants
to learn about new rainforests
The guitarist played with a piano ____________.
accompany
accompanied
accompaniment
accompanies
My friend is going to ________ me to the bus station.
reside
accompany
labor
decline
What is the synonym for decline?
reconsider
recover
lesson
lessen
These parking spots are only __________ to people in wheelchairs.
accessed
accesses
accessible
access
What is the synonym for the word 'occur'?
try
participate
happen
receive
Doctors cooperated with scientists to develop a new drug. Their _______ resulted in an affective new medicine.
cooperate
cooperative
cooperatively
cooperation
The verb ______ means to happen at the same time, but the noun ______ means a disagreement or a difference in ideas or plans.
decline
intensive
conflict
confrontation
Which one from the given words below is not a synonym for the word "labor"?
work
work hard
giving birth
work at home
