Номер 7, страница 65 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс (spotlight) тренировочные упражнения в формате огэ (гиа) Ваулина, Подоляко

7. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words derived from the capitalized words.

Plants

The fact that plants do not live a passive life has been known for sometime now. Two separate and (1)______ research studies reveal that RELY these silent (2)______ may be 'talking' to each COMMUNICATE other and us! If you have ever noticed that certain plants seem to thrive (цвести) next to each other, it may not be a (3)______ or COINCIDE (4)______ of your superior gardening skills, but PROVE it shows the good (5)______ (6)______ be- NEIGHBOUR/FEEL tween the two. At least that's what an (7)______ team of (8)______ believes. The AUSTRALIA/RESEARCH evolutionary (9)______ states that plants use ECOLOGY some kind of acoustic signaling to communicate with each other and it may allow the weaker plant to thrive or die. What's even more (10)______ is that the (11)______ believes the INTEREST/SCIENCE (12)______ happens at a very early stage. COMMUNICATE Monica, who published her (13)______ in the FIND 7th online edition of BMC Ecology, reached this (14)______ following an (15)______ study she CONCLUDE/INTEREST conducted with some chili pepper, basil and fennel plants. So (16)______ may be able to FARM use sound to (17)______ or (18)______ the COURAGE(2) (19)______ of certain plants, helping to reduce GROW their (20)______ on fertilizers and pesticides. DEPEND

7. Read the text and choose the right options.

Can Red Wood Ants Predict Earthquakes?

The scientists (1) ______ up video cameras that monitored the (2) ______ movements, day and night. A special software also kept track of any

(3) ______ of the normal behaviour pattern of the ants. What they (4) ______ was fascinating.

The ants (5) ______ pretty much the same routine every day busy with their (6) ______ and then resting inside their mounds (муравейники) at night. However, before an earthquake they seemed to (7) ______ that routine by staying the entire night outside their mounds. Only after the earthquake was (8) ______, they relaxed and went back to their regular way of life. What was even (9) ______ is that they did not change their behaviour for tiny earthquakes below 2.0.

What the scientists are not sure (10) ______ is how the ants are able to anticipate the shakes. Now, if only these amazing insects could talk!

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The scientists set up video cameras that monitored the insects' movements, day and night. A special software also kept track of any change of the normal behaviour pattern of the ants. What they discovered was fascinating. The ants kept pretty much the same routine every day busy with their chores and then resting inside their mounds (муравейники) at night. However, before an earthquake they seemed to break that routine by staying the entire night outside their mounds. Only after the earthquake was over, they relaxed and went back to their regular way of life. What was even more interesting is that they did not change their behaviour for tiny earthquakes below 2.0. What the scientists are not sure of is how the ants are able to anticipate the shakes. Now, if only these amazing insects could talk!

Ученые установили видеокамеры, которые круглосуточно отслеживали передвижения насекомых. Специальное программное обеспечение также отслеживало любое изменение обычного режима поведения муравьев. То, что они обнаружили, было захватывающим. Муравьи соблюдали практически тот же распорядок дня, занимаясь своими делами, а затем отдыхая ночью внутри своих муравейников. Однако перед землетрясением они, казалось, нарушали этот распорядок, оставаясь всю ночь вне своих муравейников. Только когда землетрясение закончилось, они расслабились и вернулись к своему обычному образу жизни. Что было еще интереснее, так это то, что они не меняли свое поведение при слабых землетрясениях магнитудой ниже 2.0. В чем ученые не уверены, так это в том, как муравьи способны предвидеть толчки. Если бы только эти удивительные насекомые могли говорить!