B. Use of language
19 pts
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| 1. Find words or expressions in the text that mean more or less the same. | 4 pts | |||
| a) | reduce to a lower number | (lines 18-21) | ||
| b) | They signal that you can cross a road safely | (lines 23-29) | ||
| c) | information via loud speakers | (lines 30-35) | ||
| d) | for the most part | (lines 30-35) | ||
| 2. Find the opposites. | 3 pts | |||
| a) | common | (line 2) | ||
| b) | al lot of | (line 14) | ||
| c) | well | (line 36) | ||
| 3. Explain one of the following words in complete sentences. | 2 pts | |||
| a) | rubbish bin | (line 12) | ||
| b) | to employ | (line 19) | ||
| c) | excellent | (line 32) | ||
| 4. Vocabulary - Grammar | 10 pts | |||
| Read the text. Find the suitable forms of the words and write them down. | ||||
| Polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba | ||||
| The _____ town
Churchill is a town where it would be better to look right, left and right again - though it is not a speeding car that might hit you, but a hungry polar bear. No roads lead to churchill - it is so cut _____ that you have to rach it by rail or plane, but the bears have no trouble finding it every year. Churchill, on the western coast of the Hudson Bay _____ "polas bear capital of the world". It has more polar bears _____ through it in October and November than it has people. As many as 20 a day can be seen around the town. After months of eating little more than berries and seaweed the bears are starting to get hungry. What they _____ want is to find a frozen spot along the coastline where they can risk to go back on the ice and hunt seals. But many smell the town and do not want to miss the opportunity to look for a meal. _____ with polar bears is getting riskier for both humans and bears in a future influenced by climate change. Until now the loss of sea ice _____ a rapid drop in the bear _____ around Hud- son bay. _____ say the starving bears are showing more and more risky and atypical _____ such as cannibalism and are wandernig far inland where they come closer to the people. | a) Canada b) of/up/off c) to call d) to pass e) strong f) to live g) to cause h) to populate i) science j) to behave | |||
| Adapted from:
http://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2488048/Inside-polar-bear-prison-northern-C…
(25.03.2016). http://theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/canada-living-with-polar-bear... (27.03.2016) | ||||