Grammar Exercise: Climbing the Tallest Trees and Apple's Founder, Ejercicios de Inglés

¡Descarga Grammar Exercise: Climbing the Tallest Trees and Apple's Founder y más Ejercicios en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! Guayaquil University Faculty of Medical Sciences Medical Career Group 2 Members: o Cayambe Pilamunga Jessica Alexandra o Llumiguano Mendoza José Andrés o Maura Ramírez Damarys Nicole o Puya Gomez Allison Nicole o Salazar Fiallo Diana Ivonne Teacher: Gaston Aulestia Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use. © www.allthingsgrammar.com N AM E : Grammar in the News Climbing the Tallest Trees in the World • Complete the paragraph by circling the correct words. In the summer of 2016, Jake Milarch and a small group of tree climbers (1) to California to climb some trees. That (2) sound very interesting – until you find out that some of the trees are the tallest trees in the world. Some of (3) are 300 feet tall (91 meters), which is about the same height as a thirty-story building. They are also some of the (4) trees in the world. Many of the trees are hundreds of years old, and some (5) even two or three thousand years old! Why are (6) people climbing the trees? They are climbing them because already 95% of these trees (called ‘coast redwood’ trees) have been cut down, so they (7) to save them. After the (8) get near the top of the trees, they take small pieces from the youngest branches to plant new trees. Jake Milarch says that, “everybody’s a little afraid of heights (9) it’s pretty safe, and once you’re up (10) , there’s a lot of cool stuff – stuff other people will never get a chance to (11) .” Their goal is to plant hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new trees. In March 2016, the group even (12) 40 of the baby coast redwood trees in England. 1. (A) travels (B) travelled (C) travel 2. (A) isn’t (B) don’t (C) doesn’t 3. (A) them (B) they (C) they’re 4. (A) oldest (B) old (C) older 5. (A) is (B) are (C) have 6. (A) this (B) these (C) them 7. (A) want (B) wants (C) wanting 8. (A) climbers (B) climbs (C) climbed 9. (A) and (B) so (C) but 10. (A) they’re (B) their (C) there 11. (A) sees (B) see (C) saw 12. (A) planting (B) plant (C) planted GROUP 2