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profreadm01C

Dimitris Sclias

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question 1

profreadm01 Part 1c -> Reading comprehension.

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow by choosing the
correct answer a, b, c or d. -> only one answer is correct.

Fire was a regular visitor to most North American forests long before Europeans settled this continent. Nevertheless, almost from its founding in 1905, the U.S. Forest Service adopted a rigid policy: Don't let fires get started - ever.
There were, to be sure, a few people who insisted that it wasn't quite that simple. One was the great conservationist John Muir, who had long noted the "inviting openness" of the forests covering California's Sierra Nevada, and remarked that these open forests seemed relatively impervious to fire. The reason was that the Sierra forests had always been periodically burned over. Fires, starting by lightning, regularly consumed underbrush and litter - needles, cones and dead branches - on the forest floor where most fires star, which thereby prevented a build up of dangerous tinder. The result was that fires moved slowly in the Sierra Nevada and only on the ground. Muir had warned, as early as 1896, that total exclusion of fires would destroy this natural inoculation. The professionals unfortunately, paid little attention.
Wildfire in fact involves a "triangle" of causes: weather, ignition and fuel. "Fire weather" - a suitable combination of drought, heat and wind - occurs annually in California and other places with a dry-summer, and periodically in most other temperate and tropical regions. Ignition will occur wherever men are careless or malicious or the turbulent air gives birth to lightning. and fuel will exist as long as trees drop their leaves and needles to the ground or dried matted grasses accumulate in open country. Therefore, say today's experts, since weather is beyond man's control, and ignition is only partly controllable, fuel would seem to be the point at which to attack wildfire.

91. Before European settlement, the forests of the Sierra Nevada...
a. were never touched by fire
b. suffered occasional burning of the underbrush
c. were severely burned on one occasion
d. were regularly devastated by fire

92. Fires in the great forests are most often started by...
a. man's carelessness b. arsonists
c. the U.S. Forest service d. electrical storms

93. The naturally caused fires were harmless to the forests because...
a. they moved slowly
b. storms would soon put them out
c. the trees were strong enough to resist fire
d. they only moved on the ground

94. Forests fires only occur in...
a. bare region
b. temperate and tropical regions
c. the Mediterranean area
d. areas which are not wet and cold

95. The best way to prevent forest fires seems to be to...
a. let leaves and needles pile up under the trees
b. forbid people to enter the forests
c. control the weather
d. clear leaves and needles from under the trees

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