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The Amazon rainforest covers 2.5 million square miles. It is the largest remaining tropical forest in the
world.It gets more than nine feet of rain each year.
The Amazon is in South America. Almost two-thirds of the rainforest is in Brazil but it also stretches
across parts of Guyana,Venezuela,Colombia,Suriname,French Guiana,Peru,Ecuador and Bolivia.
The first Europeans to discover the Amazon were Spanish,who found it while searching for gold and
silver tobring back to their king. The first people they met in the rainforest were female warriors,so
Francisco de Orellanamed the river after a Greek myth about women warriors called "Amazons".
Even if the Amazon makes up only two percent of the earth's surface area,it is where more than half of
theworld's plant and animal species are. The Amazon has 60,000 types of plants,1,000 species of birds
and 300 typesof other animals. Jaguars,piranhas and pink freshwater dolphins are just a few of the animals that live in the Amazon rainforest.
Because the Amazon is so large and____,it helps the world breathe a little easier by changing
carbondioxide into oxygen. The Amazon is also home to thousands of undiscovered plants and animals
that might be used
to cure diseases,like AIDS,one day. But uncontrolled development and forest fires are hurting the
Amazon.
1. What is the best title of the sentence? (Please answer within 5 words.)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Brazil has the largest part of rainforest in the world.
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3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within
5words.)
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4. Why do you think we should protect the Amazon? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.
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