The Global Crisis

This passage is about

• pollution of the air and water.

• critical problems on the planet.

• the planet earth.

• disasters in Central America.

According to the passage, the earth is changing because of

• human activity.

• scientific predictions.

• pollution.

• its history.

We can infer from this passage that the global crisis is affecting people in developing countries

• less than in industrialized countries.

• only when they live in cities.

• more than in industrialized countries.

• and industrialized countries in the same way.

Hurricane Mitch

• killed fish in the southern oceans.

• resulted in population growth.

• did not cause much damage.

• killed thousands of people.

Hurricane Mitch caused so much destruction partly because

• lots of trees had been cut down.

• it had rained little that year.

• people in Central America were mostly farmers.

• fish were dying in the oceans.

Coral reefs are important to the ocean ecology because

• they help make the ocean temperatures warmer.

• they prevent pollution and overfishing.

• people often build their homes on them.

• many kinds of water plants and fish live on them.

In the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea,

• all the coral reefs have already died.

• at least half of the reefs have died.

• there are few coral reefs.

• the coral reefs are all healthy.

If the coral reefs all die,

• many tourists will want to go see them.

• governments will build new ones.

• many people will be without food or jobs.

• storms will destroy the tourist industry.