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Unit 1.3 Strategic choices and reading
Name Surname Class: 11th Evaluation
Date , 20
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Part A: Listening
TEXT 1
1 /15
Listen to a text about Amur leopards and complete the sentences with 1-3 words.
a. It is extremely rare to catch sight of an Amur leopard .
b. Amur leopards use their to keep warm.
c. Camera traps are used to calculate .
d. Amur leopards can be found in the vast forests of .
e. Conservation work is having a positive effect by of Amur leopards.
TEXT 2
2 /15
Listen to a text about sea otters and choose the correct option.
a. Sea otters have a impact on the environment.
1. low 2. great 3. minimal
b. Sea otters are of the environment.
1. victims 2. enemies 3. predators
c. Sea otters eat mostly .
1. sea urchins 2. kelps 3. marine animals
d. Sea otters are responsible for lowering levels of .
1. uric acid 2. cortisol 3. carbon dioxide
e. See otters gained International protection in .
1. 1911 2. 1961 3. 1971
Listening
and reading Unit 1.3 Strategic choices
Part B: Reading
Read the text attentively.
The Giant Panda
The giant panda, China’s national animal, is a global symbol of cuteness. But the black-and-white bear
have long suffered for their irresistible qualities – poached for their pelts, smuggled out of the country as
cubs to the U.S. and Japan, and speculated on like a tradeable stock by zoo collectors. By the
1980s, 1) . But this summer, pandas also became a global symbol of conservation success.
5 Chinese officials announced that the animals are no longer endangered.
In 2016, The International Union for Conservation of Nature had already downlisted the giant
panda from endangered to vulnerable, citing a steadily increasing population and expanded
habitat. 2) .
Much has been achieved since 2016. China has designated a new Giant Panda National Park, which
10 covers 70 percent of the animals’ existing habitat, mainly in Sichuan Province. And the number of
pandas in captive-breeding programs around the world has nearly doubled, to 633.
Meanwhile, a study about the effects of climate change on bamboo, which makes up 99 percent of
pandas’ diet, shows that their tolerance – and that of bamboo – to variations in temperature and rainfall
is much higher than previously thought.
15 In reality, today’s increase was something no one was certain would happen 20 years ago. “Now the
panda is a very successful case,” says Fang Wang, a conservation biologist in the School of Life
Sciences, at Fudan University, in Shangai.
3) . Widespread deforestation and habitat fragmentation restrict pandas in the wild
to less than one percent of their historic range.
20 One measure Chinese conservationists have adopted is to breed and raise pandas in captivity to
release them into reserves to bolster wild populations.
4) . McShea says. “They’d be much better off creating reserves that produce abundant
pandas and translocating those pandas.”
Adapted from: www.nationalgeographic.com
Re-read the text and complete the gaps in the text with the following sentences.
a. But some Chinese scientists and officials rejected that assessment, saying it was premature and
could undermine panda protection efforts.
b. Successful within limits, though, because panda recovery isn’t assured, experts warn.
c. The breeding program “isn’t going to change the world,”
d. […] their numbers in the wild had fallen to just over a thousand. Extinction loomed.
2 /30
Underline the correct option to complete the sentences.
a. A study has confirmed that the consequences of climate change on bamboo are .
greater than expected / lower than expected / as expected / different than expected
b. In 2016, The International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the giant panda as a(an)
species. endangered / vulnerable / extinct / recovered
c. According to the text, the biggest threats to the giant panda are .
wild-life populations / variations in temperature and rainfall / widespread deforestation and
habit fragmentation / captive breeding-programs
3 /20
Circle the correct antonyms for the following words in the text.
