Answer the following question in your own words without copying any sentences from the passage above:

Why cannot Brazilian Amazon absorb carbon from the atmosphere?

Write the meanings of the following words/expressions in English using contextual clues (The words are underlined in the passage):

dismal

Write the meanings of the following words/expressions in English using contextual clues (The words are underlined in the passage):

make both ends meet

Write the meanings of the following words/expressions in English using contextual clues (The words are underlined in the passage):

pitfall

Fill in the table by putting words in the empty cells according speech:

	Noun	Verb	Adjective
a	consumption		x
b		x	necessary
c	inclination	x
d		decrease	x
e	x	x	urban

Give an antonym for each of the following words and make sentences with the antonyms:

poverty