Reading Comprehension for Accumulative Test

 

 

The giant Panda has a distinctive white head with black eye patches, ears and shoulders. Unlike other bear species, giant pandas are herbivorous, spending up to 12 hours a day chewing bamboo shoots and roots. Because of poaching and habitat loss, they are extremely rare, occurring in small populations in the bamboo forest of China. Despite being the subject of major international conservation efforts, wild populations of giant pandas may not be enough to save this species.

 

Giant pandas have lived in the bamboo forests of China for millions of years and have been honored by the Chinese for a very long time. In fact, giant pandas have appeared in Chinese art for thousands of years. Because the giant panda is considered a national treasure in China, it is protected by law so that it does not become extinct.

 

 

 

Superlatives

Superlatives

 

 

the superlative is the form of an adverb or adjective that expresses a degree of the adverb or adjective being used that is greater than any other possible degree of the given descriptor. English superlatives are typically formed with the suffix -est (e.g. healthiest, weakest) or the word most (most recent, most interesting).

 

 

Example of superlative: "she is [the] most beautiful [of all the women here tonight]"

Simply put the word 'superlative' is defined as

• (a noun) an exaggerated mode of expression (usually of praise): "the critics lavished superlatives on it";
• (an adjective) the greatest: the highest in quality;
• the superlative form of an adjective: "best" is the superlative form of "good", "most" when used together with an adjective or adverb.

Present Perfect For and Since

Present Perfect For and Since

 

 

We use Present Perfect tense to talk about action which started in the past and continues up to the present.

Examples

   I have had this computer for about a year.
How long have you been at this school?
I haven't seen Julia since September.

For+ a period of time

• for six years, for a week, for a month, for hours, for two hours.
• I have worked here for five years.

Since+ a point in time

• since this morning, since last week, since yesterday,
• since I was a child, since Wednesday, since 2 o'clock.
• I have worked here since 1990.

present perfect with for

• She has lived here for twenty years.
• We have taught at this school for a long time.
• Alice has been married forthree months.
• They have been at the hotel fora week.

present perfect with since

• She has lived here since1980.
• We have taught at this school since 1965
• Alice has been married since March 2nd.
• They have been at the hotel since last Tuesday.

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