Task 3. Read the article and make the right choice for each numbered gap. For every right choice
you get 1 point. You needn’t write words - just corresponding letters.
Adopt an Endangered Animal
1. Polar bears are the (1.) carnivores that live on land. They have (2.) thick fur which helps to keep
them warm. Polar bears also have big front paws which help them to swim. They are excellent swimmers
and can stay under water for up to two minutes at (3.) time.
2. These large white bears live in the Arctic Circle. It’s very cold there, with icebergs in a freezing
cold sea. When it (4.) really cold in the winter, polar bears stay under the snow in a den.
3. Polar bears hunt and catch seals and (5.) animals such as (6.) foxes and birds for food. They also
eat fish and other animals and plants which live in the sea. If a polar bear finds a (7.) whale or walrus, it will
eat it, (8.).
4. Polar bears are an endangered species. People used (9.) and trap them for their fur, and at one
time there were only 5,000 polar bears left. Now, polar bears are protected and they can only (10.) by
Eskimos using (11.) traditional ways. Today, there is (12.) danger. Pollution is damaging the habitat of (13.)
beautiful animals.
5. They at Swanley Animal Park have started an “Adopt an Animal” scheme. You can adopt an
animal as:
- an individual
- a family
- a group (school, club, company)Всероссийский открытый конкурс по английскому языку “Open World”
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6. If you donate 30 pounds, this will help them to keep a polar bear at Swanley Animal Park for three
months. They will also send some of the money to help preserve the natural habitat of polar bears in the
wild. You will get
- an adoption certificate
- a colour photograph of the polar bear you adopt at Swanley
- a sticker for your car
- a free Swanley Park Newsletter
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