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1) The document is a reading comprehension test that contains two passages about the Anthropocene epoch and human impact on the planet. 2) It asks a series of multiple choice and short answer questions to test the student's understanding of information and ideas directly stated in the passages as well as inferences that can be made. 3) The questions cover topics like when the Holocene epoch began, scientists who proposed classifying the current time as the Anthropocene, and effects of human activity like rising ocean acidity and accelerated extinction rates.

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Reading Comprehension Test Row B

1) The document is a reading comprehension test that contains two passages about the Anthropocene epoch and human impact on the planet. 2) It asks a series of multiple choice and short answer questions to test the student's understanding of information and ideas directly stated in the passages as well as inferences that can be made. 3) The questions cover topics like when the Holocene epoch began, scientists who proposed classifying the current time as the Anthropocene, and effects of human activity like rising ocean acidity and accelerated extinction rates.

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Reading Comprehension test # 01

Row B

Name: ___________________________________ Grade: ______________


Teacher: Ms. Milagros Calderón Miró Section: _____________
Competency Reads different types of English written texts as a foreign language

Capability C1. Obtains information from written text


C2. Infers and interprets information from written text

Criteria Identifies explicit, relevant and complementary information.


Interprets the written text combined with the principal idea with the specific information in order to build the global
sense.

CRITERIA YES NO FEEDBACK

Identifies explicit information.

Identifies relevant information.


CHECK LIST
Identifies complementary information.

Deduces implicit information from the text.

SECTION I: Read the passage: The Human Age pp. 6-11 and answer the following questions

1. According to paragraph A, which of the following is true of the Holocene epoch?


a) It still continues today.
b) It ended before the last Ice Age.
c) It started about 5,000 years ago.

2. In paragraph C, the author mentions all of the following EXCEPT:


a) Italian geologist Antonio Stoppani invented the word Anthropocene.
b) The world's population is several times larger than it was two centuries ago.
c) The biomass of large animals today is much less than that of human beings.

3. Why does the author mention the impact of an asteroid in paragraph K?


a) To show that the number of reef gaps that occur today are greater than ever before.
b) To explain how asteroids cause global warming and the oceans to acidify.
c) To compare global warming today to a mass extinction 65 million years ago.

4. Which of the following proposals is NOT mentioned in paragraph M?


a) The Anthropocene began long after the start of the 21st century. 
b) The Anthropocene began towards the end of the 18th century.
c) The Anthropocene began at some point during the 20th century.

5. According to paragraph N, which of the following is NOT true of the decision to include
Anthropocene in the geologic timescale?
a) It needs votes from two organizations.
b) It is a complicated decision because there are different opinions.
c) Its impact on the planet will be too dramatic.
SECTION II: Read again the passage: The Human Age pp. 6-11 and answer the following questions
1. How did people at the conference react when Crutzen suggested that the Earth was no longer in the Holocene
Epoch?
a. They were shocked and angry.
b. They thought his theory was unscientific.
c. They were surprised but interested.
d. They chose to ignore his suggestion.

2. Which of the following scientists first proposed the idea that the Earth was in an epoch shaped by humans?

a. Paul Crutzen
b. Jan Zalasciewicz
c. William Raddiman
d. Antonio Stoppani

3. It can be inferred from the quotation in paragraph D that Zalasciewicz believed that the term
"Anthropocene" _______________.

a. should be used by geologists as well as other scientists


b. was becoming accepted by the scientific community
c. is not really an accurate term
d. should always appear in quotation marks

4. In the second sentence of paragraph F, the word it refers to _______________.

a. a formal problem
b. geological evidence
c. a new epoch
d. human impact

5. The purpose of paragraph G is to _______________.

a. indicate that cities may not have a long-term impact on the planet
b. explain why erosion is a more powerful force than sedimentation
c. show how man-made materials will be preserved over time
d. point out that erosion is changing the face of the earth

6. The author identifies what she feels is the most serious effect of humans' impact on the planet in
_______________.

a. paragraph F
b. paragraph H
c. paragraph J
d. paragraph N

7. Which of the following statements would the author probably NOT agree with?

a. Large parts of the Earth's coastlines may eventually be under water.


b. Some animals are relocating their habitats to cooler regions.
c. If the level of acidity in the oceans continues to rise, corals may stop building reefs,
d. There has never been a period in the earth's history in which plants and animals have gone extinct so quickly.

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