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FIRST READING AND USE OF ENGLISH PART 7 3

The environment

1 Make sentences with It is … , a word or phrase from the box and the information below.
Sometimes there is more than one possible answer.

claimed not known predicted sometimes said thought

1. ………………....... global conservation is fighting a losing battle.
2. ………………....... 11% of animals worldwide will be endangered by 2050.
3. ………………....... how many insect species have already become extinct.
4. ………………....... numbers of farmland birds will continue to rise.
5. ………………....... the word butterfly may originate from people calling one species a
‘butter-coloured fly’.
6. ………………....... a new species of frog has been discovered in a remote area of jungle.

Exam task

You are going to read five paragraphs from the website of a wildlife conservation organisation.
2
For questions 1–10 choose from the paragraphs (A–E). The paragraphs may be chosen more
than once.

Which paragraph

points out that some aspects of the volunteers’ work is surprisingly challenging? 1
includes a promise about the excellence of some services it offers? 2

says that the organisation is keen to recruit people who have a certain hobby? 3

lists a number of threats to animals that live in the sea? 4

mentions the length of time that the organisation has existed? 5

outlines the characteristics that are useful for volunteers to have? 6

warns that the measures taken to protect one species are not enough? 7

mentions features which can help distinguish one animal from another of the same species? 8

mentions how the organisation informs the public about its research findings? 9

describes the process involved in one kind of information-gathering session? 10

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