SGK Tiếng Anh 12 - TEST YOURSELF D
TEST YOURSELF D Listen to the passage and complete the note with NO MORE THAN THREE words. FACTS A BOUT THE PANDA Habitat: (0) lives in high mountains in China Food: mainly (1) Eating time: (2) hours a day Number: about (3) in the wild and 100 in captivity Cubs: more than (4) die after birth Solution: (5) II. Reading (2.5 points) Read the passage and decide if the following statements are true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM). It is difficult to know how many elephants once lived in the continent, but there may have been at least 3-5 million elephants in Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. People have always hunted elephants for meat, hides and ivory. As the human population grew and weapons became more advanced, elephants were under greater threat. In the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a huge decline in the number of elephants due to the increase in poaching. It is estimated that there are now about 500,000 elephants and they are living in a small number of countries. A ban was given on all international trade in ivory in 1989, and many governments started to give poachers severe punishments. Thanks to such timely actions, some elephant populations, especially those in southern Africa, have recovered over the last decade. However, numerous threats remain for Africa’s elephants. T F NM There are now about 3 to 5 million elephants in Africa, ũ ũ D Elephants are hunted because they have nowhere to hide. ODD During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the number Complete the sentences with must, mustn’t or needn’t. DOCTOR: You . go on a diet; but you eat sensibly and you overeat. ZOO NOTICE: Visitors feed the animals. TEACHER: You read the whole book but you - read the first four chapters. RAILWAY NOTICE: Passengers walk on the line. SCHOOL NOTICE: The lifts be used in case of fire. DOCTOR: You take more than two of these pills at once. Three might be fatal. DOCTOR (to patient’s wife): If the pain has gone, he take any more of these. Study the information about the rhino then write a paragraph describing the animal and suggest possible solutions to protect it from extinction. Habitat: Grasslands, tropical and subtropical forests in Africa and southern Asia. Population: About 17,000 Height: 1.2 to 1.8 m Weight: 1,000 to 3,000 kg Food: Grass and plants Life span: About 40 years Reason for decline: Habitat destruction and illegal hunting