It is a disturbing fact that many different wild animals throughout the world are in danger. An endangered species is a type of animals that will probably become extinct. There are 3,079 animals and 2,655 plants that are endangered worldwide. Lots of countries have laws to protect endangered animals.
The reasons for this are many and varied, but we must blame pollution, pesticides, the disturbance of the animal’s natural environment and man’s greed. Industry has grown enormously, and it has become common practice for factories to dispose of waste matter in streams, canals and rivers, causing great loss of river life. Modem agricultural methods include using pesticides, which effectively control insects classified as pests, but which also destroy many that are not.
Some animals are endangered because their habitats are being destroyed because of the increase in population, which has meant more buildings, more vehicles, more pollution ... and with it the destruction of much of the countryside that provide shelter for wild animals. People are building cities, logging (cutting down trees) and mining in places where animals live. Other animals are endangered because people are hunting and killing them. When a new species starts living in a place, it can take food from and prey on the animals that lived there before. Some of the endangered animals in the world include the black rhino found in Africa, the orangutan found in the country of Malaysia and the blue whale. Finally, other endangered species examples include the Bengal tiger, giant panda, mountain gorilla, sea lions, and others.
Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d :
1- Countries can protect endangered animals by ……………
a) punishing people who build houses b) building habitats for them
c) stopping the immigration of animals d) making laws
2- The underlined word ‘many’ refers to ……………
a) insects other than pests b) agricultural methods
c) pests only d) pesticides
3- Shelter is the same meaning as ……………
a) someone to attack b) something to eat
c) sometime to spend d) somewhere to stay
4- When using pesticides, we kill ……………
a) pests and harmful and harmless insects b) pests only
c) harmful insects d) none of these
5- “When a new species starts living in a place, it can take food from and prey on the animals that lived there before.” This means that ……………
a) man is the cause of animal extinction
b) animals are made endangered by the weather
c) animals are made endangered by other animals
d) the increase in population causes danger to animals
6- Man’s greed is one of reasons that makes the matter worse. ‘Greed’ means ………
a) man’s desire to have things more than their need
b) man’s desire to kill animals
c) man’s desire to build cities and cut down trees
d) man’s desire to mine in places where animals live
7- It has become common practice for factories to dispose of their waste in streams and rivers. This means that factories ……………
a) deliver their waste to streams, canals and rivers
b) store their waste in streams and rivers
c) get over their waste in streams, canals and rivers
d) get rid of their waste in streams, canals and rivers
8- The best title to the passage is ‘……………’.
a) The problem of the endangered animals b) Endangering animals and man
c) The problem of the endangering animals d)Man’s greed and other creatures