Critical Reading Exercise

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF JEMBER
Jember, 10 Desember 2020
CRITICAL READING EXERCISE
Read the critical reading guide and then answer the questions. Your task in this
exercise is to identify which group each quotation comes from.
Critical Reading Guide
Critical reading is the ability to evaluate the credibility of a piece of writing. All writers have a
purpose when they write, and usually, a writer will choose or emphasize facts and details which
support his or her purpose, and ignore facts which don't. As a good reader, you need to be aware
of that.
In this exercise, you will see a number of quotations from different "interest groups" or
"lobbies". A lobby or interest group is a group of people who have a common interest and who
work together to publicize and promote their point of view. In the exercise, you will read
quotations from five lobbies: [give also the reason why you choose the choice]
The forestry industry: The forestry industry makes money from cutting down trees.
Therefore, they want to be able to continue to cut trees, and they want to discourage any
alternative ways of producing pulp and paper.
The environmentalists: The environmental lobby wants to protect the forests against logging
companies, so they would like to show how destructive logging is, and how valuable the forests
are.
The hemp farming lobby: The hemp farmers would like the fiber hemp plant to be legal so
that they can grow it. They want to show how useful it is for making paper and other products,
and they would like people to understand the difference between the marijuana plant and the
fiber hemp plant.
The marijuana legalization lobby: These people would like marijuana to be legal. They are
interested in linking the fiber hemp plant with marijuana because they think it may be possible to
legalize BOTH kinds of plant. They want to show how useful industrial hemp is, and at the same
time, they want to convince people that marijuana is harmless.
The Canadian government: The Canadian government has just legalized industrial hemp,
but they want to keep marijuana illegal, so they want to show that it is dangerous. They also get
lots of taxes from the forestry industry, so they do not want to restrict logging too much.
1. "The rainforests are quite simply the richest, oldest, most productive and most complex
ecosystems on Earth."
A. the forestry industry
B. the environmentalists
C. the hemp farming lobby
D. the marijuana legalization lobby
2. "Some have calculated that if Canada converted the entire pulp and paper production in
Canada to hemp, it would be necessary to plant hemp over 18% of the country."
B. the marijuana legalization lobby
C. the environmentalists
D. the hemp farming lobby
3. "Farmers... can grow hemp without pesticide or herbicide application because it grows
quickly and is not likely to fall to disease."
C. the Canadian government
4. "Each year, forest fires destroy more forests than are used for making pulp and paper."
B. the Canadian government
5. "Decriminalizing cannabis could well result in a greater use of the drug by Canadians,
thereby increasing the health and safety hazards associated with it."
A. the Canadian government
6. "The government added marijuana in 1923 to The Opium Act of 1908 without any health concerns
inherent in the law whatsoever. The Opium Act was introduced as a purely racist measure to deport
and jail Chinese-Canadians."
7. "67% of the fiber used to make Canadian pulp and paper comes from sawmill residue and
recovered paper that used to be disposed of in landfills."
8. "Hemp is about business and the environment. Marijuana is a moral question about the
government's control of what drugs people consume. These two questions have nothing in
common but the shape of the leaf, and we have to separate the issues."
9. "In the Vancouver Grasstown Riot, of 1971, police attacked and injured hundreds of
peaceful
10. "Logging is still the biggest employer and the single biggest contributor to tax revenue in
BC."

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ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Jember, 10 Desember 2020

CRITICAL READING EXERCISE

Critical Reading Guide

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