Номер 11, страница 37, часть 1 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс учебник Вербицкая, Гаярделли

Часть 1. Unit 4. Animal quiz - номер 11, страница 37.

Условие.

11 Read Tracy's letter to The RAP. What is Tracy worried about? What question does she ask The RAP readers?

Dear RAP readers,

Recently I've read about a bird called the passenger pigeon, or wild pigeon, — it lived in North America a century ago. It was a beautiful, swift and graceful bird. There were thousands, even millions of them.

I was surprised to find out that today there is not even one left. All living passenger pigeons disappeared from the earth entirely. The passenger pigeon became extinct.

It happened for many reasons. The main one is the change in the pigeons' natural habitat, in the environment. These birds needed large forests, but farmers needed land, so they cut down forests. No forests — no food for the birds. Second, many pigeons were shot for sport and because they were good to eat. At that time, there were no hunting laws to protect endangered species like there are now. Pigeons were killed in huge numbers, and there were very few of them left. There were not enough birds for the species to survive.

The passenger pigeon is only one of the many plants and animals that once lived on our planet and have become extinct. Extinction has been going on since life began on our planet. But today extinction is happening faster than ever before.

I feel very concerned about this and wonder what can be done to stop it?

Good-bye,

Tracy

MARTHA

Last of her species, died at 1 p.m.,

1 September 1914, age 29,

in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden.

EXTINCT

The RAP

Letters from our readers

Vocabulary
habitat	graceful
entirely	individual
species	to donate
to survive
swift
to feel concerned about sth

From the editor

Here you can see some illustrations to Tracy's letter. One of them is a picture of the last known individual of the passenger pigeon species. She was named “Martha” after Martha Washington, the wife of the first President of the USA. The pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden, and was donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Решение.

Решение 2.

11 Прочитайте письмо Трейси в The RAP. О чем беспокоится Трейси? Какой вопрос она задает читателям The RAP?

Ответ:

Tracy is worried about the fact that plants and animals are becoming extinct faster than ever before. She asks the readers what can be done to stop it.

Трейси беспокоится о том, что растения и животные вымирают быстрее, чем когда-либо прежде. Она спрашивает читателей, что можно сделать, чтобы остановить это.