DOMINOES MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST

Level Two
Green Planet
8 The first National Park was made in _____ in
SETTING 1890.
Choose the best answer. a □ Alaska
1 The Ariane rocket, with the Envisat satellite on it, b □ New Zealand
left from _____. c □ the United States
a □ England d □ Australia
b □ Kourou, French Guiana 9 The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is
c □ Rio de Janeiro in _____.
d □ the Galapagos Islands a □ Alaska
2 The Beagle went on a five-year journey b □ Canada
to _____. c □ Russia
a □ Australia d □ the Ukraine
b □ North America and the Atlantic 10 The 2002 Earth Summit took place in _____.
c □ Rio de Janeiro a □ Brazil
d □ South America and the Pacific b □ South Africa
3 In the 1950s 14,000 cats arrived in _____ by c □ Denmark
parachute. d □ Japan
a □ Borneo 20 marks
b □ England
c □ the Galapagos Islands CHARACTERS
d □ the USA Choose the best answer.
4 A group of scientists started WWF in 1961 11 Charles Darwin wrote _____.
because they were worried about the wildlife a □ Silent Spring
in _____. b □ The Origin of Species
a □ Africa c □ The Sea Around Us
b □ Borneo d □ The Silent World
c □ Rio de Janeiro
d □ Thailand 12 _____ wrote The Sea Around Us and Silent
Spring.
5 The people who started Greenpeace started a □ Rachel Carson
working together in _____. b □ Chico Mendes
a □ England c □ Charles Darwin
b □ Canada d □ Christine Cabon
c □ New Zealand
d □ Australia 13 Chico Mendes and his family moved to west
Brazil to work as _____.
6 The French attacked the Greenpeace ship a □ cattle ranchers
Rainbow Warrior in _____. b □ Greenpeace protesters
a □ Alaska c □ rubber tappers
b □ New Zealand d □ tuna fishermen
c □ the United States
d □ Australia 14 _____ is called ‘the father of the National Parks’.
a □ Alan Rabinowitz
7 Chico Mendes lived and worked in the rainforest in b □ Chico Mendes
_____. c □ Charles Darwin
a □ Belize d □ John Muir
b □ Borneo
c □ Brazil
d □ Costa Rica

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15 Alan Rabinowitz began _____. 22 ‘I’m worried about pesticides, especially when
a □ the Cockscomb Wildlife Sanctuary people use them over a long time.’
for jaguars a □ Charles Darwin
b □ the Great Barrier Reef National Park b □ Chico Mendes
c □ the Sagarmatha National Park c □ Rachel Carson
d □ Yosemite National Park d □ Sir Julian Huxley
16 Fernando Pereira died _____. 23 ‘Perhaps they won’t do the tests if we are staying
a □ in the Brazilian rainforests on the island.’
b □ on the Rainbow Warrior a □ Fernando Pereira
c □ in the Chernobyl explosion b □ the first Greenpeace protesters
d □ on the Exxon Valdez c □ the United States government
d □ WWF
17 _____ paid new Zealand seven million dollars
after the Rainbow Warrior attack. 24 ‘The divers attacked the Rainbow Warrior after
a □ Alain Marfart and Dominique Prieur our government told them to do it.’
b □ Christine Cabon a □ the Australian Prime Minister
c □ Fernando Pereira b □ the British Prime Minister
d □ The French government c □ the French Prime Minister
d □ the President of the USA
18 When he was a child, _____ couldn’t talk very
well. 25 ‘I want to start the National Council of
a □ Alan Rabinowitz Rubber Tappers.’
b □ Charles Darwin a □ John Muir
c □ John Muir b □ Chico Mendes
d □ Leonardo DiCaprio c □ Charles Darwin
d □ Alan Rabinowitz
19 Rachel Carson was _____.
a □ working for the French government 26 ‘Please enjoy and protect the mountains and the
b □ on the Rainbow Warrior wild country. They are special places.’
c □ an American scientist a □ John Muir
d □ from Scotland b □ Chico Mendes
c □ Charles Darwin
20 Nadezhda Timoshenko lived in a village near
d □ Alan Rabinowitz
_____.
a □ Bligh Reef, Alaska 27 ‘I am here to study and protect jaguars.’
b □ Chenega Bay a □ John Muir
c □ Copenhagen b □ Chico Mendes
d □ Chernobyl c □ Charles Darwin
20 marks d □ Alan Rabinowitz
28 ‘Sail to one side of the ice, then sail straight on in
DIALOGUE the usual way.’
Who says this? a □ the captain of the Calypso
b □ the captain of the Exxon Valdez
21 ‘Any species can change over time into a new
c □ the captain of the Phyllis Cormack
species.’
d □ the captain of the Rainbow Warrior
a □ Charles Darwin
b □ Chico Mendes 29 ‘March 24, 1989, was the day the water died.’
c □ Rachel Carson a □ the people of Chenega Bay
d □ Sir Julian Huxley b □ the people of Chernobyl
c □ the captain of the Exxon Valdez
d □ Nadezhhda Timoshenko

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30 ‘For me it is hard to forget and terrible to 38 everything around us: the air, water, plants and
remember.’ animals
a □ the captain of the Rainbow Warrior a □ environment
b □ Chico Mendes b □ information
c □ the captain of the Exxon Valdez c □ wildlife
d □ Nadezhda Timoshenko d □ space
20 marks
39 the number of people who live in a place
a □ billion
VOCABULARY b □ breed
Choose the best answer. c □ population
d □ species
31 to stop something from being in danger
a □ control 40 when all the people in a group agree about
b □ protect something
c □ protest a □ solve
d □ attack b □ consensus
c □ reason
32 a very small animal with six legs
d □ problem
a □ insect
20 marks
b □ seal
c □ nut
d □ cyclone PLOT
Choose the best answer.
33 an important meeting
a □ government 41 The Envisat satellite _____.
b □ organization a □ helps people to communicate
c □ reserve b □ protects the Earth
d □ summit c □ sends power to the Earth
d □ sends scientists information about
34 to break something completely
the Earth
a □ waste
b □ disappear 42 Charles Darwin believed that species could
c □ destroy change into new species _____.
d □ melt a □ over a long time
b □ very quickly
35 from the hottest part of the world
c □ in the Galapagos Islands
a □ nuclear
d □ in English villages
b □ tropical
c □ popular 43 In the 1950s, the government of Borneo needed
d □ rainforest lots of cats because they had a problem with
_____.
36 a group of people who work in the
a □ birds
same business
b □ rats
a □ company
c □ malaria
b □ scientists
d □ bees
c □ experts
d □ political 44 WWF began because some scientists were
worried about _____.
37 a ship that carries oil
a □ animals dying in Africa
a □ cancer
b □ people dying from malaria
b □ diver
c □ rubbish on the beaches of Koh Phi Phi Leh
c □ rubber
d □ nuclear tests
d □ tanker

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45 Greenpeace sent the Rainbow Warrior to the

Pacific Ocean because of _____.
a □ pesticides
b □ an explosion
c □ a cyclone
d □ French nuclear tests
46 Chico Mendes fought to _____.
a □ stop the work of rubber tappers
b □ cut down trees for cattle
c □ make a rainforest reserve
d □ build houses in the rainforest
47 The North American bison was in danger of
disappearing because of _____.
a □ cattle
b □ Native Americans
c □ white hunters
d □ trains
48 The number of polar bears in the Arctic is getting
smaller because _____.
a □ of hunters
b □ they are thinner
c □ there are no seals in the ocean
d □ of global warming
49 The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant happened because _____.
a □ a test went wrong
b □ radioactive material went out of the plant
c □ people were worried about the future
d □ they were making electricity
50 If people make their carbon footprints smaller,
they will _____.
a □ buy second-hand things
b □ make more carbon dioxide
c □ travel by car and plane a lot
d □ help the environment
20 marks

Total marks

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 DOMINOES MULTIPLE-CHOICE ANSWERS

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SETTING PLOT
1b 41 d
2d 42 a
3a 43 b
4a 44 a
5b 45 d
6b 46 c
7c 47 c
8c 48 d
9d 49 a
10 b 50 d

CHARACTERS
11 b
12 a
13 c
14 d
15 a
16 b
17 d
18 a
19 c
20 d

DIALOGUE
21 a
22 c
23 b
24 c
25 b
26 a
27 d
28 b
29 a
30 d

VOCABULARY
31 b
32 a
33 d
34 c
35 b
36 a
37 d
38 a
39 c
40 b

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 DOMINOES ACTIVITY KEY

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BEFORE READING ACTIVITY PAGES 12–13

1
a3 READING CHECK
b7 1
c6 a3
d2 b5
e5 c1
f8 d7
g1 e2
h4 f4
2 Encourage students to guess but do not tell g6
them the answers now. They will find out as they 2
read that the answers are: b4
c5
a1
d1
b2
e6
c1
f3

ACTIVITY PAGES 6–7 WORD WORK

b problem
READING CHECK c control
b3 d rubbish
c2 e part
d3 f protect
e1 g become
f3 h grow
g2 i appears
h2 j save
k political
WORD WORK
b scientist … information … species GUESS WHAT
c organization … summit
Encourage students to guess but do not tell
d power
them the answers now. They will find out as they
e future … study
read that the answers are:
f website
g kind a Yes
h idea b No (It started in the early 1970s.)
i chance c Yes
j plants d No (It does not belong to any business or
government.)
GUESS WHAT e Yes
f Yes
Encourage students to guess but do not tell
them the answers now. They will find out as they
read that the answers are:
a Sir Julian Huxley
b Leonardo DiCaprio
c Rachel Carson
d Rachel Carson
e Leonardo DiCaprio

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ACTIVITY PAGES 18–19 ACTIVITY PAGES 24–25

READING CHECK READING CHECK

The French government wanted to do some nuclear b True
tests in the Pacific Ocean. When Greenpeace c False (They wanted land for their animals.)
decided to send their ship Rainbow Warrior to d True
protest about this, the French made a plan to e True
damage the ship. On 10 July there was a birthday f False (Chico Mendes was shot at the door of his
party on the ship. During the party, a French diver own house.)
swam to the Rainbow Warrior, put something on the g False (They had to go to prison.)
side of the ship and went away again. Later there h True
were two explosions, and a photographer died. Two
French people went to prison because of the attack, WORD WORK
and France paid New Zealand seven million dollars. b medicine
Now the old Rainbow Warrior is on the bottom of the c male … female
sea/ocean near the Cavalli Islands, and a new ship – d cattle
Rainbow Warrior II – sails all over the world for e pools
Greenpeace. f tropical
g carbon dioxide … oxygen
WORD WORK h rubber
b protests … damage … violence i reserve
c attack
d safe GUESS WHAT
e waste Encourage students to guess but do not tell
f explosion them the answers now. They will find out as they
g rainforest read that the answers are:
h hunt
a1
i land
b2
j coast
c3
d1
GUESS WHAT
e2
Encourage students to guess but do not tell
them the answers now. They will find out as they
ACTIVITY PAGES 30–31
read that the answers are:
a False (Some get rain only for a few months of the READING CHECK
year.) b3
b True c1
c True d6
d True e2
e False (Cutting down rainforests is not good for the f5
environment.)
WORD WORK
b reason
c space
d communication
e national park
f skin
g billion
h bone

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GUESS WHAT
GUESS WHAT Encourage students to guess but do not tell
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they
them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the answers are:
read that the answers are: a Yes
a1 b Yes
b2 c No (The accident happened in 1986.)
c1 d No (Chernobyl is still a dangerous place.)
d1 e No (At least 31 people died in the accident.)
e3 f Yes

ACTIVITY PAGES 38–39 ACTIVITY PAGES 46–47

READING CHECK READING CHECK

1 b 2.1
b Penguins have big feet that help them to ‘fly’ in the c Atlantic
water. d seals
c Penguins stopped flying about fifty million years e earthquake
ago. f warm and sunny
d Emperor penguins can stay at sea for a month. g radio
e Penguins have heavy bones that help them dive h school
down deep. i red
f Penguins are not usually afraid of people. j money
g Dolphins live together in small groups
h Dolphins find their food by sound. WORD WORK
i ‘Dolphin-friendly’ means something that does not a electricity
hurt dolphins. b radioactive material … cancer
j Fishermen catching tuna often kill dolphins. c tanker … captain
2 d company
b4 e disaster
c1 f machines
d5 g destroy
e6 h panic
f3 i practise

WORD WORK GUESS WHAT

Encourage students to guess but do not tell
them the answers now. They will find out as they
read that the answers are:
a Yes
b No (We need to cycle more and travel by plane
less.)
c No (We need to eat less meat.)
d Yes
e No (We shouldn’t buy water in bottles.)
f Yes

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ACTIVITY PAGES 54–55 Project A pages 56–57

NATIONAL PARKS
READING CHECK 1 Possible answers:
a The carbon dioxide that people are putting into the a The Great Barrier Reef is off the north-eastern
atmosphere is making problems for the world. coast of Australia.
b If everyone tries to make their carbon footprint b It is 2,300 kilometres long.
smaller, it will be better for the environment. c It became a national park in 1975.
c If you want to make your carbon footprint smaller, it d It is 348,700 square kilometres. / It is bigger than
is better to travel by bicycle than by plane. Italy.
d The people who meet for the talks called the e You can see beautiful fish and sea plants.
Copenhagen Consensus are a group of experts from f Big fishing boats, large numbers of visitors and
all over the world. warmer seas can damage the reef.
e The most important thing on the Copenhagen
Consensus list in 2008 was Vitamin A for poor 2 Possible answers:
children. Sagarmatha National Park is around Mount Everest,
f 12% of the world’s population uses 85% of its north-east of Kathmandu, Nepal. It became a
water. national park in 1976, and it has 1,148 square
kilometres of forests, rivers and mountains.
WORD WORK ‘Sagarmatha’ is the Nepalese name for Mount
b expert Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 8,848
c second-hand metres.
d vitamins The best time to visit is autumn or spring. Then, the
e population days are warm but the nights are cold. If you come in
f health winter it is usually cold in the daytime, and
g blind sometimes there is heavy snow. From June to
h consensus September there is a lot of rain.
There is a lot to see here. There are many high
WHAT NEXT? mountains, and glaciers – rivers of ice – like Khumbu
Open answers. and Lhotse which are more than three kilometres
long. Up to 4,500 metres there are green forests,
and in summer you can see pink and red
rhododendron trees.
Large numbers of visitors often mean more rubbish
and more damage to the mountain. And changes to
the weather mean that the ice on the mountains and
glaciers is melting more quickly than before
3 Open answers.

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Project B pages 58–60

ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
1
a5
b6
c1
d4
e3
f2
2 Open answers.
3 Open answers

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1 6
b (6) In the end b travelling
c (1) At first c Eating
d (4) Next / Later d Driving
e (2) At the same time e drinking
f (5) Later / Next f growing
g Looking
2 h Giving
b1 i Turning
c4 j thinking
d2 k helping
l Walking
3 m Hunting
b How much (5) n paying
c How many (7)
d How many (2) 7
e How many (9) b does Nadezhda live
f How much (8) c was she living
g How much (4) d did she hear
h How many (1) e did the last villagers leave
i How much (10) f did Nadezhda find
j How many (6) g does she do
h are people making
4
b The 8
cA b won’t catch
d– c begins
e The d put ... will go
f– e is
ga f learns
h– g can’t be
i The h can stay
jA i catch
k–
lA
m An

5
b or
c and
d so
e because
f and
g because
h or
i but
j so

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