A2 READING PART3 EXERCISE2

Instructions:

You are given a piece of text with five questions.

You are also given a set 3 choices for each question.

Identify the correct answer and click on the correct button.

Once all the questions have been answered, click on the check button.

Correct answers will appear in green, incorrect answers in red.

Your mark will be given as a percentage.

The pass mark for this exercise is 70% or over and you need to be able to do this exercise in the exam in about 10 minutes.

(Here a timer is given to help.)

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Itaipu Dam

People build dams on rivers because this is a great way to get energy, and the biggest dam ever built was built in 1984. It is called the Itaipu dam, and is as big as a building with sixty-five floors. The dam gets its energy from The Parana River, which flows between Brazil and Paraguay.

The Parana River is in South America, which has quite a few very big rivers, but very few are as big as The Parana River. There used to be a very big waterfall on this river, but they had to blow it up to make it safer to travel along the river.

The name of this dam comes from a small island in the river, which was very close to where the dam was built, and it took five years to start building it, once Brazil and Paraguay agreed that it was a good idea to go ahead.

In 1994, this dam was so famous that it was chosen to be one of the seven wonders of the modern world, and it was so difficult to build that the river had to be moved from where it normally flowed, just to make space to work. Such work had never been tried before.

The Itaipu Dam is not one dam but actually four different dams, which were built to support the main dam. More than 40,000 men were needed to build the dam, and they nearly all came from Brazil. Sadly, about 150 of them were killed.

The Herald

1) The Parana River

has its source in Brazil and flows into the sea in Paraguay.

is a man-made river, built in 1984.

provides an energy source for the dam.

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2) The waterfall was removed

for safety reasons.

as it was not big enough to provide energy.

to stop people from travelling along the river.

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3) Before the dam could be built

two countries had to agree on its name.

they had to wait five years for permission.

Brazil and Paraguay had to come to an agreement.

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4) What is the writer doing in paragraph 4?

Telling us about how the dam was built in 1994.

Explaining how hard it was to build the dam.

Describing the natural flow of the river.

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5) The people that built the dam

were mainly Brazilian men.

were nearly all killed.

were men and women from Paraguay.

Your score is

A2 READING PART3 EXERCISE2

Itaipu Dam

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