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Answers to the Exercises for The Trees and the Axe

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A. How much did you understand? 

 

The right order for sentences 1,2 and 3 is:

  1. Years ago, we used to live in peace.
  2. The axe is our enemy! 
  3. But only bent wood can make axes.

 

The right order for sentences 4, 5 and 6 is:

  1. We must kill the axe!
  2. The head is made of metal, but the handle is made of wood.
  3. I’m going to grow straight.

 

B. Now put all six sentences in the right order

 

The right order for all the sentences is:

  1. Years ago, we used to live in peace.
  2. The axe is our enemy! 
  3. We must kill the axe!
  4. The head is made of metal, but the handle is made of wood.
  5. But only bent wood can make axes.
  6. I’m going to grow straight.

 

C. Finish these sentences?

 

  1. 1/5. Years ago there were trees everywhere but now axes have cut them down. 
  2. 2/c. The axe is too strong for us and we are too weak.  
  3. 3/a. The eucalyptus grew straight but the other trees grew in the old way.