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    1) The document discusses how plants can be identified by their leaves and flowers. It describes how leaves allow plants to breathe, absorb sunlight, and produce food through photosynthesis. 2) Flowers attract insects like bees through their color, scent, and nectar. Pollen sticks to insects and is transferred between flowers, allowing seeds to form. 3) Four conditions are needed for seeds to grow - moisture, warmth, air, and darkness. Seeds begin growing quicker in darkness.

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    1) The document discusses how plants can be identified by their leaves and flowers. It describes how leaves allow plants to breathe, absorb sunlight, and produce food through photosynthesis. 2) Flowers attract insects like bees through their color, scent, and nectar. Pollen sticks to insects and is transferred between flowers, allowing seeds to form. 3) Four conditions are needed for seeds to grow - moisture, warmth, air, and darkness. Seeds begin growing quicker in darkness.

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    РЕПУБЛИЧКО ТАКМИЧЕЊЕ ШИФРА / CODE: _____________

    ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК – VIII РАЗРЕД TIME: 20 min


    26. мај 2012. године MAX. 8 points / MIN 6

    READING COMPREHENSION TEST

    Leaves, flowers and seeds

    One way of recognising a particular plant or a tree is by its leaves. A plant breathes through its leaves.
    It also uses them to absorb energy from the sunlight, and to give off excess moisture. The green colour
    of most plants is due to chlorophyll, a chemical in the plant which enables it to make food in its leaves
    through the action of sunlight.

    Examine a leaf carefully. Down the centre is the midrib, which is the continuation of the stem. Veins
    branch off from the midrib and from a network which feeds the whole leaf with the nourish ment
    brought up by the stem from the roots.

    Each kind of flower has its own shape and colour and sometimes its own scent. As well as being
    beautiful a flower has a practical purpose in the life of a plant, for it produces the fruit and seed from
    which new plants grow.

    Insects are attracted to a flower by its colour, by its


    scent and by the nectar stored at the base of the
    petals. You may have seen a bee busy among the
    flowers, taking the nectar. As it does this, it picks
    up a little of the pollen in the hairs of its body.
    Pollen is a very fine powder or dust. As the bee flies
    about from one flower to another it rubs some of
    the pollen it has picked up from one flower on to
    the sticky pistil of another. The pollen travels down
    the inside of the pistil to the ovary where the seeds
    are formed. In due course the seeds grow and,
    when they are ripe, if they fall on suitable ground they will become new plants.

    Four conditions are necessary for a seed to begin to grow. There must be enough moisture to enable
    young plant to burst its hard shell. It must be warm enough. It must have air to grow. Finally it needs
    darkness – seeds begin to grow quicker when they are in the dark.

    from PLANTS AND HOW THEY GROW by F.E.Newing and R.Bowood


    РЕПУБЛИЧКО ТАКМИЧЕЊЕ ШИФРА / CODE: _____________
    ЕНГЛЕСКИ ЈЕЗИК – VIII РАЗРЕД TIME: 20 min
    26. мај 2012. године MAX. 8 points / MIN 6

    Choose the correct answer and circle the letter in front of it:

    1. We can identify a plant 5. A flower attracts insects with


    a) by its green colour a) its beautiful shape
    b) only by its leaves b) its green colour
    c) by its leaves or flowers c) its pollen
    d) by the shape of its flower d) its smell and colour

    2. The leaves 6. Bees and other insects


    a) store food for the flowers a) take the nectar in the hairs of their body
    b) can make food for the plant b) pick up the pollen in the hairs of their body
    c) are always green c) pick up the pollen from the pistil
    d) produce chlorophyll d) take the seeds from a flower

    3. The leaves are green because of 7. The seeds


    a) the nourishment a) are formed in the ovary
    b) the action of sunlight b) are formed in the pistil
    c) air and moisture c) are covered with a fine dust called pollen
    d) a chemical substance in plants d) are picked up by insects

    4. It is in the flower 8. The seed must


    a) that the excess moisture is stored a) be planted at night, in darkness
    b) that the bees make their home b) have moisture, warmth, air and darkness to
    c) that the fruit and seed are produced grow
    d) that the food is produced c) grow quickly to survive
    d) grow in its hard shell

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