The Fruit Book Reading Answers

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Matching Information Questions

In the Matching Information type of question, a list which contains information taken from the paragraphs. You are asked to find out the paragraph from which the information is taken. Sometimes the question may be tricky because the information given might not be in exact words as given in the paragraph instead it will be paraphrased so you need to read the paragraph to understand the meaning/idea behind it to answer these questions.

Summary Completion

In the summary completion question, you will be provided with a summary of information from a text, and there will be a few gaps. You will either get a list of words to be filled in the gaps or you could be asked to find answers from the reading passage. You will have to insert a few words from the text into the gaps. All of the information in the summary will also be available in the reading text. However, they will be using paraphrasing and synonyms. Thus, you cannot expect to find the exact words.

The Fruit Book

Answers

27 Answer: D

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph D, 2nd last line

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can find out that  “The only way to find out, Shanley decided, was to start from scratch with a scientific study. “From a scientific point of view, hardly anything was known about these trees,” she says. But six years of field research yielded a mass of data on their flowering and fruiting behaviour.”  Pa­tricia Shanley, an ethnobotanist in her early/initial data collection collected a mass of data on their flowering and fruiting behaviour.

28 Answer: A

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph A, line 3

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, refer that, “its blend of hard science and local knowledge on the use and trade of 35 native forest species has been so well received (and well used) that no less a dignitary than Bra­zil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has written the foreword.” It is mentioned that it’s a blend/mix of both science and local knowledge. Thus, a government official can be inferred as a local knowledge contributer to the book.

29 Answer: C

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph C, line 1

Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line. In the passage, it is said that “the Rural Workers’ Union wanted to know whether harvesting wild fruits would make economic sense in the Rio Capim.” The reason Rural Workers’ Union asked Shanley to conduct the research was that they wanted to know if harvesting wild fruits would make economic sense or not.

30 Answer: B

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph B, line 1

Answer explanation: Paragraph B provides the information that “Shanley’s work on the book began a decade ago, with a plea for help from the Rural Workers’ Union of Paragominas, a Brazilian town whose prosperity is based on the exploitation of timber.” Here, it is mentioned that Shanley started her work/book a decade ago with a plea from a Brazilian town. Hence, that was the starting point of her research.

31 Answer: E

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph E, line 7

Answer explanation: Few lines in said paragraph discuss that “the fire and logging also changed the nature of the caboclo diet.” From 1993 to 1999 consumption of forest fruit had fallen. The two factors that altered food consumption were fire and logging.

32 Answer: I

Question Type: Matching Information

Answer location: Paragraph I, line 5

Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, the author in the given paragraph mentions that “its success is largely due to the fact that people with poor literacy skills can understand much of the information it contains about the non-timber forest products, thanks to its illustrations, anecdotes, stories and songs.” The book is successful because illiterate people are also about to gain knowledge from this book through its illustrations.

33 Answer: fruit

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph E, line 3

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, refer that, “average annual household consumption of forest fruit had fallen from 89 to 28 kilogrammes between 1993 and 1999.” After the major fire in 1997, the consumption of forest fruit had fallen amongst local villagers.

34 Answer: fiber

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph E, line 6

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, refer that,“over the same period, fiber use also dropped from around 20 to 4 kilogrammes.” Just like fruit the consumption of fiber also dropped.

35 Answer: uxi

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph F, line 4

Answer explanation: In the reference paragraph, the author mentions that “under copaiba, they caught just two species averaging 63 kilogrammes; and under uxi, four species weighing 38 kilogrammes.” Due to the loss of certain species Shanley approached local hunters to weigh their catch, under piquia area they caught 5 species of 232 kilograms, in the copaiba area species were of weight 63 kilograms. However, the lowest was under uxi, 38 kilograms.

36 Answer: unpredictable

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph G, last line

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can point out that “fruiting patterns of trees such as uxi were unpredictable, for example. In 1994, one household collected 3,654 uxi fruits; the following year, none at all.” Also, the data collected of uxi yield is said to be unpredictable.

37 Answer: piquia/piquia trees

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph F, 2nd last line

Answer explanation: Few lines in the said paragraph convey that  “This showed that selling piquia trees to loggers for a few dollars made little sense, explains Shanley.” The team of Shanley also conducted a research on what trees were worth keeping. It was discovered that selling piquia trees did not make much sense. Thus, it was  more reasonable to keep them.

38 Answer: subsistence

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph H, line 2

Answer explanation: At the beginning of paragraph H it is given that “this is not to say that wild fruit trees were unimportant. On the contrary, argues Shanley, they are critical for subsistence, something that is often ig­nored in much of the current research on NTFPs, which tends to focus on their commercial potential.” Since author says it is not true that wild fruit trees were not unimportant, and all trees are critical and can be used for subsistence.

39 Answer: commercial potential

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph H, line 2

Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, it is mentioned that “on the contrary, argues Shanley, they are critical for subsistence, something that is often ig­nored in much of the current research on NTFPs, which tends to focus on their commercial potential.” Shanley argued that the research conducted by NTFP ignored the critical subsistence as it focuses on the commercial potential of the trees.

40 Answer: non-timber forest products

Question Type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph I, line 6

Answer explanation: Paragraph I claims that “its success is largely due to the fact that people with poor literacy skills can understand much of the information it contains about the non-timber forest products, thanks to its illustrations, anecdotes, stories and songs.” From this information, we can confirm that this book contains information about non-timber forest products.

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