Paper 3, Part 1
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 556.
Use of English
1) Look at the picture. Do you know anything about the bird that's illustrated? Why do you think it is important?
2) Read the text to see if your ideas were right.
3) Fill each gap in the text with one suitable word.
| America's big bird is back The American bald eagle is top of a list of recovering species which are likely either to be (0) taken off the endangered register in the next two years, or downgraded (1) ………… ‘threatened' status. More than 1,130 animals and plants are listed (2) ………… the US Fish and Wildlife Service (3) ………… endangered or threatened, making (4) ………… illegal to kill or harm them. (5) ………… now, few species had been removed from the register and when they (6) ………… it was usually because (7) ………… had finally become extinct. As America's national bird, the bald eagle has been protected (8) ………… various ways since 1940. The eagle, (9) ………… is not really bald but looks it because of the white feathers on its head, is found only in North America. It appears on the national coat arms and on (10) ………… sorts of everyday items, including the dollar bill, and has been the (11) ………… of attention in the argument (12) ………… the best way to protect endangered species. Its numbers had been reduced to (13) ………… than 500 by the use of pesticides that effected (14) ………… reproductive system, but (15) ………… are now more than 5,000 nesting pairs in the continental US and the numbers are growing at 10 per cent a year. |
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