Macmillan English Grammar

3 Rewrite each pair of sentences as one new sentence, using the preposition underlined

folIowed bywhich.

a There are a number of trees and plants. Rubber is taken from them.

..The..re....are.. ..a ..Vlw:1Abe..r..o+ ..lre..e..s ..aVld..plaVlls ..+roM ...whidl.rubbe..r ..is ..lake..Vl ....

b The Para rubber tree is the major commercial source. Rubber is extracted from it.

c Brazil is the country. Rubber originates from there.

d Ancient Central American cultures collected rubber. They made balls from it.

e The Mayas mad e temporary shoes by using a rubber mixture. They dipped their feet into it.

f The people in Brazil used a mixture of rubber. They made waterproof clothes from it.

g In England people noticed it was a substance. You could rub out marks wit h it.

h This was the origin of the name. English people called itb}'this name.

4 Underline the correct option.

Easter Island, awhichis /whichit is in the Pacific

Ocean more than 3,000 km from the coast of South

America, has a terrible lesson to teach the modern

world. When the first Europeans visited it in 1722,

they found an island short of food on bwhich /

which areabout 3,000 people were living in a state

of constant war. The Europeans were surprised to

find a large number of huge statues, cwhich/which

theyhad been moved over great distances, and d to

which/whichclearly belonged to a great civilization.

The people ewhose/ -they found on the island,

however, were poor and backward. The Europeans

supposed that these people could not have built such

large statues, fwhich/whichitmeant that some other

mysterious people must have done so. However,

modern research has shown that the inhabitants

of Easter Island were responsible for the terrible

condition gin which/ - the Europeans had found

them in. The inhabitants were divided into many

family groups, hwhich/which theycompeted with

each other. Their religion involved building huge

statues, iwhich/whoseconsumed time and resources.

Their home was a volcanic island oniwhere/which

few trees grew, and I<which/whichitproduced little

food. To make matters worse, to build statues they

cut down trees, Iwhich/whichitcaused soil erosion.

By the middle of the 16th century, the population

had reached about 7,000, mwhich/which wasto~

great for the island to support. By this time there

we re no more trees, nwhich/which theythe islanders

needed to build boats. There was not enough food

owhich/with which to feed such a large population,

and they we re unable to leave, so the population felI.

By the end of the 19th cen tury, there were only a

hundred or so inhabitants remaining.

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