Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

210 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

13. What is exponential growth?


14. What is overshoot?


15. What is sustainability?


16. What three conditions must be met in order to achieve sustainability?


17. To produce the World3 scenario, what ive factors were analyzed?

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EXERCISE

Reading for interpretation and inferenceFor each of the following statements

from the reading text, choose the boldface word or phrase in the sentence below that

more accurately reects the meaning of the underlined phrase in the statement.

1. “They warned, however, that unless people and policy makers tackled the underlying causes
   of the problem—and the sooner the better—the less likely they would be to turn things
   around.”
   People can| cannot wait to make changes.


2. “To question growth, let alone challenge the corporate world’s quest for unlimited proit,
   was next to heresy.”
   The book’s message went against popular beliefs | told lies.


3. “Environmentalists, scientists, and thinkers applauded Donella Meadows and her colleagues
   for caring deeply enough about the planet to initiate an urgent discussion on its future.”
   Donella Meadows and her colleagues wrote the book to become famous |
   for humanitarian reasons.