Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 39
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It’s a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don’t know it’s raining. The trees grow so closely that rain doesn’t always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provides us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. One fifth of the world’s fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world’s species of animals, plants, and insects live in the
Earth’s rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from the rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
Question:
What is the author’s purpose in the passage?
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A.
To prove that rainforests are indispensable in our lives. -
B.
To explain why people have destroyed a large area of tropical rainforests. -
C.
To provide factual information about tropical rainforests for readers. -
D.
To prevent people from damaging tropical rainforests.
Reference explanation:
Correct Answer:
Explain:
What is the author’s purpose in this passage?
A. Proving that rain forests are indispensable in our lives.
B. Explain why people have destroyed most of the rainforests.
C. Provide factual information about rainforests to readers.
D. Stop people from destroying rainforests.
Summary:
The passage has provided information about tropical rainforests such as characteristics, for example some rain forests in the world, benefits brought in many areas to humans. In addition, the author also points out the current situation today, when many rain forests are destroyed by humans to serve their personal purposes.
→ The author provides real information about tropical rainforests to readers
→ Choose the answer C
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