I. Read the passage, make questions and answer them.

Wild animals and 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.

          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 the tropical forests are being cut down to satisfy man’s need of timber and paper.

          1. Where / wild animals / live ?

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          2. Why / forests  /  be cut ?

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          3. What / happen / wild animals / if / forests / disappear?

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II. Use the correct word forms.

          1. Conservation is the _____________ and preservation of natural resources. (safeguard)

          2. Salt has a ______________ effect on food. (preserve)

          3. The fight against ___________ is an important part of conservation. (pollute)

          4. Carbon monoxide is a ______________ gas. (poison)

          5.  ______________ pollution is one of serious problems facing the mankind today. (environment)

6.  ______________ land consists of irrigating deserts, draining swamps and pushing back the sea. (reclaim)

          7. We can conserve our environment by ______________ of waste. (prevent)

          8. Farmers can protect their land by ______________ rotation of crops. (year)

          9. Farmers can help enrich the soil by adding ______________ (fertilize)

          10. Preserving natural resources is a great ______________. (important)

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

Word formation:

The days when people would go to a zoo simply for (0. AMUSE) _______ are long ago. Today, when we place greater (1. IMPORT) _______ on the survival of animals in the wild, zoos have duty to inform the public and improve our (2. KNOW) _______ of the environment and the problems faced (3. WORLD) _______ by large numbers of animals. Today's zoos also play a role in the (4. PROTECT) _______ of threatened species, breeding animals for release in the wild. Many zoos also fund (5. SCIENCE) _______ research into animals and their behavior. The way animals are treated in zoos has changed, too. Many intelligent animals suffer from (6. BORE) _______ in captivity and their keepers now try to improve the (7. PSYCHOLOGY) _______ state of the animals in their care. They do this by, for example, providing the animals with a (8. VARY) _______ of different food or by changing the animals' (9. DAY) _______ routine. Although some critics of zoos remain (10. CONVINCE) _______ , there can be no doubt that animals in zoos today enjoy a more comfortable existence than in the past.

IV.Read the passage. Decide which of the following statements is True(T), Palse(F) or No information(NI)

We are all destroying the Earth. The seas and rivers are too dirty to swim in it. These is so much smoke in the air that it's unhealthy to live in many of world's cities. We've cut down so many trees that there are now areas of wasteland all over the world. Farmers in many parts of Africa can not got grow enough to eat and in some Asian countries there is too little rice. Wild animals are quickly disappearing because we have killed too many. However, it isn't enough simply to talk about the problem. We must act before it's too late to do anything about it. Join us now. Save the Earth. This is too important to ignore

1._____ We can swim in the seas and rivers because they are not polluted now.

2._____ We are planting a lot of trees in areas of wasteland.

3._____ There isn’t rice enough to eat in many parts of Africa.

4._____ We are killing too many wild animals.

5._____ It’s not important to save the Earth.

6._____ It's pleasant to live in a lot of cities in the world now

7._____There are areas of wasteland now because many trees are cut down

8._____Rice can grow enough in many parts of Africa

9._____Animals are not as many now as they were a few years ago

10.____It's time to act if we want to save the Earth

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks

Count  wild       forest       decrease        goals      protect          discover       danger

1. It can be difficult to find your way through a Answer.

2. Some kinds of Answer  animals are not afraid of people.

3. Conservationists often need to  Answer the number of animals in certain areas.

4. If we don't do something about it, the elephant population will continue to Answer  .

5. Many wild animals are in  Answer because of the activities of people.

6. Conservationists always hope to Answer  new animal populations.

7. Most people are afraid of crocodiles, but it is still important to  Answer them.

8. One of the Answer  of an explorer is to learn about new places.