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Reading Comprehension 9. How should you act in the case of fire?

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A Read the article below.
10. When do people point to their watches?
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A Bag-Free Rwanda
A Bag-Free Rwanda
C Complete the crossword puzzle. Use the vocabulary from A.

I Up until 2007, everyone in Rwanda, Africa, used plastic bags, which are bad for the Across → Down ↓
environment. Wherever the bags fell on the ground, water couldn’t get into the soil, and 2. include as part of 1. should get something
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plants couldn’t grow. When bags got into draining pipes , rainwater couldn’t get through, 6. start, establish because of behavior
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so there was terrible flooding. Since plastic bags weigh so little, the wind blew them 7. wanting strongly 3. the world around you

5 throughout Rwanda, making the cities unpleasant and unclean. And finally, whenever 9. do 4. worried or anxious
people did throw out their bags, they were usually burned, and as a result, they sent toxic 10. give what is needed 5. to move a finger to direct

fumes into the air. attention
8. someone being treated by a
II When the Ministry of Environmental Protection did a study on the effects of using doctor
plastic bags, they realized how much damage the bags were causing. Therefore, the
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10 government put a ban on plastic bags. That means that it is now illegal to sell or use any
plastic bags in all of Rwanda.

III “We thought of charging a fee for the bags before we decided to ban them,” says 4
President Paul Kagame. “But plastic bags don’t cost much, so people wouldn’t mind paying
for them. The goal of the ban was to prevent plastic bags from hurting the environment.

15 Charging money for plastic bags would not stop people from buying bags that hurt the
environment.”
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IV In order to prepare the Rwandan citizens for this change, the government organized
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many public talks about how the ban would help the country. People shared stories about
damage that plastic bags had caused. “My cows died because they ate plastic bags that people

20 had thrown away and the wind then blew onto my farm,” Sentwali Kanza shared during a
talk. The government also showed short videos on buses and airplanes to educate travelers to 7 8
Rwanda about the plastic bag ban. 9

V Following the ban wasn’t easy for the Rwandans. Companies that manufactured plastic
bags were worried about their businesses, so the government told them to recycle plastic

25 instead of manufacturing the bags. In addition, shoppers had to get used to new kinds of
bags, such as cloth bags or paper bags. However, despite these challenges, people follow the
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ban, and it has really helped. Rwanda has become a very clean country, and tourism is going
up, which is good for Rwanda’s economy. Now, travelers to Rwanda say that its capital city,
Kigali, is one of the cleanest capital cities in the world!

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