1. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ________ for ever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ________ twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ________. They are being filled with poison: industrial and nuclear (4) ________, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead: the North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ________ of half the earth’s living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ________ on the world’s climate – and on our agriculture and food supplies – will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ________ – a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ________ to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds – including the tiger – to (9) ________. Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money – and if more governments wake up to what is happening – perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help us to avoid the disaster that (10) ________ the natural world, and all of us will be with it.
The seas are in (3) ________. They are being filled with poison: industrial and nuclear (4) ________, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead: the North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ________ of half the earth’s living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ________ on the world’s climate – and on our agriculture and food supplies – will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ________ – a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ________ to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds – including the tiger – to (9) ________. Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money – and if more governments wake up to what is happening – perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help us to avoid the disaster that (10) ________ the natural world, and all of us will be with it.
1.1. Read the passage and answer the best answer to indicate the correct word for (1)
1.2. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (2)
1.3. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (3)
1.4. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (4)
1.5. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (5)
1.6. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (6)
1.7. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (7)
1.8. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (8)
1.9. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (9)
1.10. Read the passage and choose the best answer to indicate the correct word for (10)
