Read the passage. Then answer the questions that follow. Read the phrases from the passage in the table below. Drag the type of meaning
each phrase uses to the boxes in the first column. Drag the reason the author
uses each phrase to the boxes in the second column.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Type of Meaning
Reason the Author Uses
It
2
Imagine diving into a vast, colorful underwater garden. You swim by
rainbow-colored coral, and schools of brilliantly hued fish dart in and out of
the shadows. Lacy fronds of plants wave lazily in the warm waters. A
tropical paradise with colors as bright as a spring garden, this delicately
balanced ecosystem is known as the Great Barrier Reef.
"tiny tube-shaped
sea animals
called polyps"
"as bright as a
spring garden"
Geographical Features
"the starfish
invasion"
2
Stretching along the northeast coast of Australia, the Great Barrier
Reef is the world's largest coral reef. This huge reef consists of a chain of
2,500 individual reefs strung together over a distance of about 1,200 miles.
It is located in the Coral Sea. The Great Barrier Reef began growing about
500,000 to 1 million years ago. Now, it forms a barrier between the choppy
waves of the Pacific Ocean and the gentler waters along the coastline.
Featured in the Great Barrier Reef are deep channels, lagoons, caves,
Indone and cornlinlanne In cnmnnlarne the rant in 15 milne ninh In other
Type of Meaning
:: figurative
:: connotative
:: technical