Номер 3, страница 35 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс (starlight) рабочая тетрадь Баранова, Дули

3 ★★ For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

Example:

0 A known B aware C read D informed

Answers from the Ice Age

We are all too well (0) aware that the extinction of animal and plant species is one of the biggest and most horrifying threats (1) ....... our planet these days. Having said that, there has recently been some good (2) ....... out of Russia regarding something called regeneration – a(n) (3) ....... solution to this ever-growing problem.

Regeneration involves (4) ....... tissue from a plant or animal that has become extinct and ‘bringing it back (5) ....... life’. In recent Russian experiments, scientists took fruit and seeds from the underground burrow of a long-dead Siberian squirrel and (6) ....... to regenerate a beautiful flower called the Silene stenophylla. To (7) ......., it is the oldest plant to be produced from the innovative regeneration (8) ....... .

Understandably, experts are over the (9) ....... about their success as it shows once and for (10) ....... that tissue can survive ice conservation for thousands of years. Those who participated in the regeneration of the flower are pleased and are now (11) ....... to find prehistoric squirrel tissue or perhaps even (12) ....... tissue from the great woolly mammoth, which could lead to the resurrection of those two species.

1 A facing B challenging C heading D confronting

2 A reports B information C news D statements

3 A probable B expected C possible D likely

4 A taking B moving C pulling D bringing

5 A in B for C to D at

6 A conducted B managed C directed D succeeded

7 A time B date C month D year

8 A action B process C practice D manner

9 A moon B galaxy C star D sun

10 A any B both C every D all

11 A imagining B hoping C wishing D dreaming

12 A freezing B iced C frozen D icy

3 ★★ For questions 1–12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

Example:

0 A known B aware C read D informed

Answers from the Ice Age

We are all too well (0) aware that the extinction of animal and plant species is one of the biggest and most horrifying threats (1) ....... our planet these days. Having said that, there has recently been some good (2) ....... out of Russia regarding something called regeneration — a(n) (3) ....... solution to this ever-growing problem.

Regeneration involves (4) ....... tissue from a plant or animal that has become extinct and ‘bringing it back (5) ....... life’. In recent Russian experiments, scientists took fruit and seeds from the underground burrow of a long-dead Siberian squirrel and (6) ....... to regenerate a beautiful flower called the Silene stenophylla. To (7) ......., it is the oldest plant to be produced from the innovative regeneration (8) ........

Understandably, experts are over the (9) ....... about their success as it shows once and for (10) ....... that tissue can survive ice conservation for thousands of years. Those who participated in the regeneration of the flower are pleased and are now (11) ....... to find prehistoric squirrel tissue or perhaps even (12) ....... tissue from the great woolly mammoth, which could lead to the resurrection of those two species.

Для вопросов 1–12, прочитайте текст ниже и выберите, какой ответ (A, B, C или D) лучше всего подходит для каждого пробела.

Ответ:

1. A. facing (стоящие перед)

2. C. news (новости)

3. C. possible (возможное)

4. A. taking (взятие)

5. C. to (к)

6. B. managed (удалось)

7. B. date (дата)

8. B. process (процесс)

9. A. moon (луна)

10. D. all (всегда)

11. B. hoping (надеются)

12. C. frozen (замороженную)