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Lektorat, grupa nr 3 / Temat 1 / Aiming at the Elephants - quiz
Rozpoczęto środa, 20 kwiecień 2022, 19:49

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Aiming at the Elephants

Long after an emotional worldwide campaign to ban ivory sales, poaching is on the rise again in Africa.
[1] THE KILLERS WERE PROFESSIONALS. The prey – a herd of

10 elephants – had huddled together in a group, the giant animals’
instinctive defense against predators. Each fell in turn, killed
instantly by a single high-velocity bullet to the brain. Game scouts
came upon the heap of warm carcasses the next morning, during a
patrol in the dense bush of Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley. The tusks
of eight elephants had been hacked out; the poachers apparently
fled before finishing the work. The scouts were disgusted, but no
longer surprised. “Poaching is going on all over the place-it’s
almost like an armed insurrection,” said one local hunter. “We’ve
not seen anything like this in our area before.”
[2] Elephant poaching, largely checked a decade ago after an
emotional worldwide campaign to ban ivory sales, is on the rise
again in Africa. And once again the issue has polarized the region. Advocates of a total ban say the problem stems from a decision three
years ago to permit three elephant-rich southern African countries to sell ivory collected legally during herd management. They say that the
sale last April of 59 tons of tusks stockpiled by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe has reinvigorated smuggling networks. The southern
African countries, which want to expand sales, suspect they’re the object of a PR offensive by advocacy groups based in Europe and the
United States. The two camps will collide in April, at a meeting in Kenya of the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species to decide on whether to renew the total ban.
[3] The fight may focus on Zimbabwe. A new census conducted last month found elephant carcasses strewn the length of the Zambezi
Valley, the country’s best-known wildlife preserve. The Worldwide Found for Nature study, leaked last week to a U.S. reporter, estimated that
poachers have killed at least 350 elephants in the last year, a twofold increase. Zimbabwe’s wildlife authorities, who had reported 81
elephants killed, didn’t respond to faxed messages about the report. But one official earlier suggested Western groups were paying poachers
in order to further calls for a new ban on ivory sales. “We suspect that someone is paying a very big mischief with our country,” said Deputy
Environment Minister Daniel Chininga-Chindori.
[4] A better explanation is corruption within the troubled country. (…) South African police, who seized three truckloads of financial
documents from Billy Rautenbach’s Johannesburg mansion last month, suspect he has been permitted to
use hunting and fishing concessions along the Zambezi as a cover for ivory dealing. Billy Rautenbach is a
40-year-old heir to a multinational empire begun by his father, who founded a transport company in
partnership with Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party. Rautenbach couldn’t be reached for comment.
[5] Once demand for ivory rose, the smuggling epidemic may have been inevitable. For murky
reasons, the black-market price of ivory quadrupled in the past six months. The region already was rife
with smuggling: gold, diamonds and cobalt finance rebels and governments alike. Noteworthy busts are
on the rise. Kenyan police caught a North Korean diplomat on his way home with 700 kilos of tusks and
Chinese customs agents intercepted nearly two tons shipped from South Africa.
[6] In the Zambezi Valley, the riverside safari camps close and even the hunters move out by
December, when the rains begin and the heat, often over 40 degrees Celsius, sets in. There are no roads in most of the vast territory, only
elephant tracks. The few poorly-equipped game scouts can’t cover the whole area. In the wilderness, the elephants are on their own.
Pytanie 1
Częściowo poprawnie
Ocena: 11,00 z 14,00
In the text, find words and phrases that mean.

1. gathered (para.1)
huddled

2. one after another (para.1)
each

3. immediately, on the spot (para.1)
instantly

4. removed by rough cutting (para.1)
hacked out

5. stopped (para.2)
banned

6. divided into two opposing groups (para.2)
polarized

7. originates from (para.2)
stems from

8. stored (para.2)
stockpiled

9. enlarge (para.2)
expand

10. reintroduce (para.2)
renew

11. double growth (para.3)
twofold increase

12. unavoidable (para.5)
inevitable

13. unclear (para.5)
murky

14. became four times bigger (para.5)
quadrupled

Punkty za udzieloną odpowiedź: 12,00/14,00. Liczba punktów po uwzględnieniu poprzednich prób to: 11,00/14,00.
Pytanie 2
Ocena: 15,00 z 17,00
Fill the blanks with appropriate words and phrases.
banned imposed expand advocate cover leaked

fled polarizing stems rise prey troubled
predators census rife reinvigoration black-market
1. It is high time the government
imposed
 a ban on smoking in public places.

2. Hundreds of zebras and antelopes fall
prey
 to
predators
 such as lions and tigers every single day.

3. Tom was caught driving under the influence and that is why he was
banned
 from driving for three long years.

4. A national
census
 conducted in Poland in 2002 showed that 15 percent of our society live in dire poverty.
5. Tom has always been a strong
advocate
 of the introduction of school uniforms.

6. Psychologists say that children’s aggressiveness
stems
 from their parents’ lack of attention.

7. The world of politics has always been
rife
 with corruption and bribery. Unfortunately it seems to be an intrinsic element of it.

8. In this year’s Oscar Awards the name of the winner for the best male part was somehow
leaked
 to the press and was known two days before the ceremony itself.
9. The question whether to built a motorway through a nature preserve is
polarizing
 both politicians and local people.

10. The company has been successful in the last two years and now the management is planning to
expand
 exports.
11. The local authorities are hoping that the latest discovery of the world’s largest dinosaur graveyard will allow the
reinvigoration
 of the tourist industry in the whole region.

12. It is an open secret that the bakery is just a
cover
 for his shady business in Belarus.

13. At the UN convention, the President of Laos made a desperate appeal for financial aid for his
fled
 country where fighting hasn’t ceased for the last 7 years.

14. As police statistics show the number of juvenile crimes has been on the
rise
 for the last ten years.
15. The
black-market
 price of diamonds is three times as high as the official one.

16. When they saw our new cannon, the enemy
troubled
 in fear.
Punkty za udzieloną odpowiedź: 15,00/17,00. Liczba punktów po uwzględnieniu poprzednich prób to: 15,00/17,00.
Pytanie 3
Poprawnie
Ocena: 3,00 z 3,00
Watch the film and complete the blanks with words that you hear in it.
Save Vanishing Species: African Elephants
1. Elephants are called a

keystone
 species and the

architects
 of the environment in Africa.

2. The speaker believes that elephants know they are hunted for the ivory because they find
carcasses
 without it.
Poprawnie
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Strona główna / Moje kursy / Język Angielski - C1+-30 godzin/ 2 semestr.

Lektorat, grupa nr 3 / Temat 1 / Aiming at the Elephants - quiz

Rozpoczęto środa, 20 kwiecień 2022, 19:49

Aiming at the Elephants

[1] THE KILLERS WERE PROFESSIONALS. The prey – a herd of

Ocena: 11,00 z 14,00

In the text, find words and phrases that mean.

Ocena: 15,00 z 17,00

Fill the blanks with appropriate words and phrases.

banned imposed expand advocate cover leaked

 a ban on smoking in public places.

 such as lions and tigers every single day.

 from driving for three long years.

 of the introduction of school uniforms.

 from their parents’ lack of attention.

 with corruption and bribery. Unfortunately it seems to be an intrinsic element of it.

 both politicians and local people.

 of the tourist industry in the whole region.

 for his shady business in Belarus.

 country where fighting hasn’t ceased for the last 7 years.

 price of diamonds is three times as high as the official one.

Ocena: 3,00 z 3,00

Save Vanishing Species: African Elephants

1. Elephants are called a

 species and the

 of the environment in Africa.

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