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1. You have never seen a dodo. Your friends and teachers have never seen a dodo. Your grandparents never saw a dodo. The last of these large birds that couldn’t fly died many years ago. Now it is extinct. We even say “as dead as a dodo”, which means “finished”. Your great-grandparents may just have seen a passenger pigeon:1 the last one died in 1914. A lot more endangered species — fish, reptiles, insects, birds, mammals — may disappear before you have children. The reason is that Man kills animals and destroys their habitats.
2. It is not just animals that are in danger. So are plants. The world had over a)_________million sq.2 km of forests. This is a lot of trees, and also a lot of different b)___________________. But they are disappearing fast. Every day we use paper and c)______________, both made from wood. We use different kinds of wood in furniture and in other ways. Every year over d)____________ sq. km of forests are cleared for different uses, and a lot of forests are so badly damaged that they will hardly be able to e)___________. If we go on like this, by the time you are as old as your grandparents are now all the forests on earth can be destroyed. This includes rainforests in South America, f)_________ and g)___________. The huge forests help to control the world’s weather and to h)_____________ much of the oxygen in the air. There are many illnesses which we still cannot cure. There are old ones like cancer3 and new ones like AIDS.4 It may be that the medicines we need will be discovered in wild plants in savannas, deserts or rainforests. If we i)___________ these places, we will j)__________ find the cure.
3. So you see that it is not just children who need a healthy space to live and grow. If we want our lives to be k)_______________________________, a lot of other l)____________________and plants need growing space too.
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Ex. 1. True, false, not stated
A dodo died, because they couldn’t fly.
Your children will hardly be able to see all the animals, that exist nowadays.
The Man has destroyed the habitat of dodos, because of it they are extinct.
The Man use wood only for paper and cardboard.
It doesn’t take a lot of time for recovering of forests.
If the forests are disappeared, we won’t notice the changes about the weather and climate.
Illnesses like cancer and AIDS are the most terrible among all possible diseases.
It’s important to save wild plants in savannas, deserts or rainforests, because they may help people to find the cure for cancer and AIDS.
We should care of the nature to change our and our children life to the better.
