Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English

Environmental Reassessment

Directions:  For each question, please mark the BEST answer based on the Living on Earth report you have just heard/read.

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1: The title of this news report is Environmental Reassessment. What, exactly, is being reassessed?

The Bush administration
The conservationists
The laws that protect the environment
Environmental impact statements

2: According to this report, who is required to file environmental impact statements?

Those who want to use federal resources to change the physical landscape
The public when they want to stop environmental degradation
Activists who use environmental statements to delay controversial federal projects
The Bush administration who says they are a waste of time and money

3: What does adroit mean in the first paragraph?

playful
controversial
skillful
shameful

4: Why does the Bush administration say lawsuits are a waste of time and money?

The Bush administration believes the money spent for lawyers should be used to save the environment.
The Bush administration doesn't want to devote federal funds to changing the physical environment.
The Bush administration wants to help developers speed their projects.
The Bush administration wants to help environmentalists stop environmental degradation.

5: In paragraphs three and four, who does they refer to?

Loggers
Environmentalists
Lawyers
The Bush Administration

6: In paragraph five, who does the agency refer to?

NEPA
Environmentalists
Lawyers
Developers

7: Does NEPA always stop a project even if the project will harm the environment?

Yes
No

8: Why do environmentalists use the Endangered Species Act?

To help save endangered species
To help stop projects that harm the environment
Both A and B

9: According to Margie Kriz, the principal conflict is between _____.

The Bush administration verses developers and environmentalists
Developers verses the environmentalists and the Bush administration
Environmentalists verses the Bush administration and developers

10: According to Margie Kriz, how will the new balance of power in the US senate affect the environment?

The Bush administration will be scaled back.
The National Environmental Policy will be more sympathetic to the Bush administration.
There will be less environmental degradation.
There will be more environmental degradation.

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