Wild animals (and wild plants) and the wild places where they live are seriously threatened almost everywhere. One species has become extinct in each year of this century. But many hundreds are now in danger. Lack of attention would lead to the rapid advance of the process of extinction.

Already many kinds of wild animals have been so reduced in number that their role in the ecosystem is forgotten. Animals like the great apes, the whales, seals etc. thought to be in danger of extinction.

But even more important, perhaps than individual kinds of animals and plants, whole habitats are in danger of vanishing: marshes are being drained, and the world forests, especially tropical forests are being cut down to satisfy man’s needs of timber and paper.

What would our world be like if all the wild animals and wild plants vanished? - Would our life still exist then?

1. What would happen to the human beings if the wild life vanished?

A. Many species would quickly become extinct.

B. The human life would be seriously threatened.

C. Species would go on dying out.

D. Tropical forests would be cut down.

2. What is more important than individual kinds of animals and plants?

A. the vanishing of whole habitats. B. the extinction of many species.

D. man’s need of timber and paper. C. the rapid advance of the process of extinction.

3. What does the writer caution us against?

A. cutting down the tropical forests. B. hunting wild animals.

C. draining marshes. D. destroying our environment.

4. What would happen if we cut down forests?

Cutting down forests would cause ……………..

A. the changes of temperature. B. the flood

C. both A and B are correct. D. none are correct.

5. “To threaten” in the passage means …………..

A. to pollute B. to give fear to C. to vanish D. to poison

choose the word or phrase(a,b,c or d ) that best fits the blank soace in the following passage

the human race is only one small species in the living world. many other soecies (1)........................ on this planet. however, human beings have a great influence on the (2) .............. od the world. they are changing the environment by building cities and villaghes (3).................... forests once stood. they are changing weather.............(4) by citting down trees in the forests. and they are destroying the air by adding(5) to it.

it can be said that human beings are changing the environment in all(6)............in two serious consequences. the first is that many kinds of rare animals are killed. the second is that the environment where these animals are living is (7)..............destroyed. as a result, the number of rare animals is(8)................ so rapidly that they are in danger of(9)................

1. a. surbive b. exist c. remain d. occur

2. a. part b. piece c. rest d. way

3. a. where b. which c .whose d. when

4. a patterns b. system c. forecasts d. conditions

5. a. pollution b. pollutants c. polluters d. polluting

6. a. regards b. points c. respects d. faces

8. a.completely b. virtually c. exactly d. badly.

9. a. rising b. decreasing c. increasing d. changing

10. a. destruction b. disappearance c. extinction d. collapsing

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

_____________ species are plant and animal species which are in danger of extinction.

A. Dangerously

B. Endangered

C. Endanger

D. Dangerous