Reading Cloze Exercise: Explanation Texts on Deforestation and the Water Cycle

Reading Cloze Exercise

Explanation Texts

Deforestation and the Water Cycle

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This interactive Reading Cloze exercise features two explanation texts about Deforestation and The Water Cycle. Read each text carefully and choose the correct words from the dropdown menus to complete the text. This activity will help you improve your understanding of explanation texts, sharpen your grammar accuracy, and enrich your environmental vocabulary.

DEFORESTATION

Instructions:
Read the passage carefully and complete each blank by choosing the most suitable answer from the dropdown options provided.

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Deforestation is the process of --select-- cutcuttingcutsto cut down trees and clearing forests for human use. It occurs when forests are removed to make space for --select--agricultureindustriesurbanizationfurniture, settlement, or industrial purposes. This process can --select--causeleadmakeresult to serious environmental problems.

When trees are removed, the balance of nature is --select--keptmaintaineddisturbedimproved. Forests play an important role in --select--producingabsorbingreleasingblocking carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Without trees, carbon dioxide levels --select--increasedecreasestaydisappear, contributing to global warming.

In addition, deforestation can --select--solvepreventcausereduce soil erosion and loss of biodiversity. The absence of trees --select--makeshelpskeepsallows the soil easily washed away by rain. Animals lose their --select--homeshabitatsshelters territories, which threatens many species with extinction.

To reduce the effects of deforestation, people must --select--replantremovecutburn trees, manage land wisely, and --select--ignoreenforceweakenavoid laws that protect forests. By doing so, we can --select--maintainchangeincreasedestroy ecological balance and ensure a healthier environment for future generations.

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THE WATER CYCLE

Instructions:
Complete each blank with the correct term from the dropdown menu.

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The water cycle describes how water moves --select--rarelytemporarilycontinuouslyslowly through the Earth’s systems — the atmosphere, land, and oceans. It is a --select--artificialtemporarynaturalchemical process that repeats over and over again.

The cycle --select--startsendsstopsbegins when the Sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, and oceans, causing it to --select--freezecondenseevaporateprecipitate. The water vapor rises into the air and --select--meltscondensesfreezes falls to form clouds.

When the clouds become heavy, the water --select--rises fallsdriesdisappears to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail — a process known as --select--condensationprecipitationevaporationcirculation. Some of this water --select--seepsruns flowsdisappears into the ground and becomes groundwater, while the rest --select--fallsflowsmeltscollects into rivers, lakes, and oceans, where the cycle starts again.

The water cycle is essential because it --select--createsblocksdistributescollects freshwater around the planet, --select--supportsreducespreventsdestroys life, and helps regulate the Earth's --select--temperatureclimaterainfallseason.

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