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Reading Comprehension 8. a Can I leave work an hour early today? I have a family event.

b Sure. But please ..................................... the time next week.
A Read the article below.
9. a Where is Avi?
b I don’t know where he went, but he said he would ..................................... in
A Bird with a Brain about 10 minutes.

10. a Are there any English-speaking students in your school?
b Yes. About 5 ..................................... of the students here speak English at home.

I Do you think you know your neighborhood well? This may surprise you, but the crows
in your neighborhood know the area better than you do. They know which kids drop cookies C Complete the puzzle according to the clues below. Use the Vocabulary in A.
that they can eat and which kids throw rocks to frighten them. If you feed them, they probably 1. a stop in the middle of something
even recognize your car and remember you as their friend. These birds carefully watch us

5 even though most of us don’t really notice them. That’s just one of the things they do in order 2. to be important
to live and survive. 3. to experience something difficult

4. out of a hundred
II Interestingly, many kinds of crows seem to live longer near people than they do in forests.
“It’s not that surprising,” explains wildlife biologist John Marzluff. “Towns are the perfect 5. to come back, to give back
place for crows to live in. They can find plenty to eat, and there aren’t as many bigger animals 6. not as separate parts

10 killing them.” 7. a study

III Marzluff has studied crows for more than 35 years. He’s filmed crows in various 8. support, cheer
situations, which has taught him a lot about how they play together and how they learn from 9. to show others what to do
one another. By testing how the birds remember, communicate and learn, he is gaining an
understanding of why crows are so street-smart and how they manage so well in our world. 1.

15 IV “One of my experiments proved that crows can recognize human faces!” Marzluff says. 2.
“The men in my research team dressed in masks and then went out to a few areas. They 3.
trapped crows, labeled them, and then set them free. When any of us returned to those places
later, without a mask, the crows ignored us. But whenever anyone else came wearing one of 4.
our masks, the crows would attack him.” And amazingly, it wasn’t just the trapped crows that 5.

20 attacked; other crows who had watched what happened to their friends also remembered us.
Huge numbers of crows flew around the person in the mask, trying to hurt him. The birds 6.
recognized that masked face, and they didn't like it one bit.
7.
V But Marzluff found something even more surprising. His group kept retesting the birds, 8.
and each time they ran the test, more birds attacked the masked face! “When a crow sees other

25 crows attacking someone, it joins in, learning the face of the person,” Marzluff notes. “This 9.
way, the number of crows that know about the dangerous face grows! Crows are just amazing!
We have so much to learn about these clever animals.” What did you get?
Get exercise; feel !

You are going to read an article about an interesting benefit of exercise.

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