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Listening Comprehension

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Listening Comprehension We live busy lives with so little time to enjoy the world around us that oftentimes we almost forget it is there. Detailed Reading Living in the Niagara region, an area that has so much to offer both scenically and historically, we forget about the diversity of nature and the fact that not everyone lives as we do. Going to university in Toronto this year, I was surprised to learn that Niagara is one of the top crop producers in not only Ontario, but also Canada. I was even more surprised that many of the people I met who were from Toronto had never seen a farm before, or

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enjoyed the small pleasures of picking their own fruit or going for hikes in scenic areas. I realized that I was lucky to have experienced both the urban and rural life. Intrigued by the question of how I felt about living so Detailed Reading close to Niagara Falls, I decided to stop by after work one night and really look at them. I felt as though I was really seeing the falls for the first time, and they truly were everything that the tourists had promised. Staring into the never-ending cascades of water, I was mystified by it all. Here I was, standing at the top of such a glorious sight that I had seen so many times before, but for the first time in my life, I was truly seeing it the way that it was meant to be seen; through the eyes of a tourist.

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1. Where is the author living?The Niagara region. Reading Detailed 2. What was he/she surprised to learn when he/she went to university in Toronto? Niagara is one of the top crop producers in not only Ontario, but also Canada. And many of the people I met who were from Toronto had never seen a farm before, or enjoyed the small pleasures of picking their own fruit or going for hikes in scenic areas.

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Questions and Answers 3. How did he/she feel when he/she decided to stop by and take a look atDetailedfalls through the eyes of a tourist? the Reading awed, mystified, a sense o

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4. Have you ever had the same kind of experience as the author did?This is an open-ended question.

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Amazon River 1. What do you know about Amazon? 2. According to the pictures, describe the geographic location of Amazon. Detailed Reading

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Amazon river in northern South America, largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area, number of tributaries, and volume of water discharged. Measuring 6,400 km (4,000 mi) from Detailed Reading source to mouth, it is second in length only to the Nile among the rivers of the world. With its hundreds of tributaries, the Amazon drains a territory of more than 6 million sq km (2.3 million sq mi), roughly half of which is in Brazil; the rest is in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela. It is estimated that the Amazon discharges between 34 million and 121 million liters (9 million and 32 million gallons) of water per second and deposits a daily average of 3 million tons of sediment near its mouth.

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The annual outflow from the river accounts for one-fifth of all the fresh water that drains into the oceans of the world. The outpouring of water and sediment is so vast that the salt content and Reading of the Atlantic Ocean are color Detailed altered for a distance of about 320 km (about 200 mi) from the mouth of the river.

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Ecuador

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Ecuador Republic in northwestern South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands (Colón Detailed Reading Archipelago) in the Pacific, about 965 km (about 600 mi) west of the mainland. Ecuador straddles the equator (Ecuador is the Spanish word for “equator”) and has an area of 272,045 sq km (105,037 sq mi). Quito is the country’s capital. Ecuador has a diverse population composed of people of European, Native American, and African descent. The majority are mestizos, individuals of mixed European and Native American ancestry. Most of the Native Americans

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live in poverty in the highlands region, where a small elite of European descent controls most of the land and wealth. Ecuador was a Spanish colony until 1822, when independence forcesDetailed Reading won a decisive victory over Spain. Ecuador has had a dem

ocratically elected government since 1979, but historically the government has alternated between civilian rule and military dictatorship. Most political conflicts involved squabbles among groups within the upper classes who controlled the nation’s wealth.

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Andes According to the picture, describe the geographic situation of Andes.Detailed Reading

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Andes The Andes are the principal mountains of South America and one of the greatest mountain systems of the world. The Andes include some of the Reading world’s highest peaks. More than Detailed 50 of them soar higher than 6,100 m (20,000 ft) above sea level. Only the Himalayas of south central Asia are higher. The lofty plateaus and high mountain valleys of the Andes contain some of the highest permanent human settlements in the world. The Andes are the longest system of high mountain ranges on earth. They extend for more than 8000 km (5000 mi) in a narrow belt along the western edge of the South American continent, from the coast of the Caribbean

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Sea in the north to the island of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south. Along almost its entire length, the Andes rise abruptly from the Pacific coast. The mountains reach Detailed Reading into seven countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.