Designed by: Teacher Yasmina López Soto
COLEGIO DE BACHILLERES DEL ESTADO DE PUEBLA
Organismo Público Descentralizado
Plantel 5, San Martín Texmelucan
Preparation Exercises
Choose the correct letter (A-D). Write your answers in the parentheses.
(B) 1. You ____ the world if you _____ up the garbage.
A. contaminates - doesn't pick
B. contaminate - don't pick
C. contaminates - not pick
D. contaminates - don't pick
(A) 2. If the air quality _____, people ______ respiratory problems.
A. decreases - suffer
B. decrease - suffers
C. decrease - suffer
D. decreases - suffers
(A) 3. If a farmer _____ insecticides, he _____ the soil and air.
A. uses - pollutes
B. uses - pollute
C. use - pollute
D. to use - pollute
(D) 4. If people _____ environmentalist, they _____ pollute.
A. am - don't
B. be - doesn't
C. is - doesn't
D. are - don't
(B) 5. If there _____ excess of light, light pollution _____.
A. are - occurs
B. is - occurs
C. is - occur
D. are - occur
(A) 6. A person _____ contribute to air pollution if he _____ up his car.
A. doesn't - tunes
B. doesn't - tune
C. don't - tune
D. don't - tunes
(A) 7. If you _____ the garbage, the number of landfills _____.
A. recycle - reduces
B. recycle - reduce
C. recycles - reduces
D. recycles – reduce
(D) 8. If someone _____ something, it always _____ to the grown.
A. drop - fall
B. drops – fall
C. drop - falls
D. drops – falls
(C) 9. If there _____ litter in the streets, there _____ possibilities that the sewage system gets stuck.
A. is - is
B. are – is
C. is - are
D. are - are
(D) 10. Someone can _____ infertility if he _____ exposed to radioactive pollution.
A. to suffer - to be
B. suffers - is
C. suffer - are
D. suffer - is
(A) 11. If there _____ fume in the environment, there _____ an increase in respiratory problems.
A. is – will be
B. are – will be
C. will be – will is
D. are - are
(A) 12. If people _____ the use of plastic, recycling _____ be successful.
A. don’t reduce – won’t be
B. not reduce – don’t be
C. doesn’t reduce – wont’ be
D. won’t reduce – won’t be
(D) 13. If water containers _____ germs, water-borne diseases _____ caused.
A. haves – will be
B. has – will are
C. has – will is
D. have – will be
(A) 14. If everyone (los pronombres indefinidos son singular) _____ more, we _____ the planet to recover.
A. recycles – will help
B. recycles – will helps
C. to recycle – help
D. will recycle – help
(C) 15. If people _____ their cars to go to work, there _____ so many car fumes.
A. share – not be
B. will share – don’t be
C. share – won’t be
D. share – don’t be
(A) 16. There will _____ a chance to save thousands of trees if we _____ the use of so much paper.
A. be – reduce
B. is – reduces
C. are – to reduce
D. to be – to reduce
(C) 17. If people _____ leaky faucets, they _____ to the waste of water a day.
A. doesn’t fix – will contribute
B. won’t fix – contributes
C. don’t fix – will contribute
D. not fixes – will contribute
(C) 18. If someone (los pronombres indefinidos son singular) _____ cloth napkins instead of disposable napkins, he
_____ trees. (This is a Zero Conditional structure)
A. will use – will save
B. will use – save
C. uses – saves
D. use – will save
(C) 19. If people _____ organically grown foods, they _____ the amount of pesticides and herbicides used
on crops.
A. consumes – will reduce
B. consume – reduce
C. consume – will reduce
D. will consume – reduce
(B) 20. If everyone _____ green and _____ care of the environment, then in the future, there _____ a
chance for our world’s natural resources recovery.
A. go – take – will be
B. goes – takes – will be
C. goes – takes – is
D. goes – takes – be
