TOPICS FOR TODAY CHAPTER 11

WILDER PLACES FOR WILD THINGS

Read the text on pages 240-242of your book and answer the questions below.

1. Which activity of the monkeys is similar to what they do in their natural habitat?
a. Giving honey to their babies.
b. Eating bananas as their diet.
c. Using instruments to obtain food for themselves.
d. Forming families with the other animals in captivity.

2. What did the zoos mentioned in paragraph 1 manage to do?

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3. According to paragraph 2, zoos are trying to

a. create places which are very similar to the wild.
b. make their zoos more attractive for the visitors.
c. stop actions which cause the extinction of species.
d. get used to their new role as keepers of biological flame.

4. Why do the curators try to imitate the real sounds of the nature in their zoos?
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5. Which of the following would be the best heading for paragraph 4?

a. Changes in Monkey Behavior in the Zoos
b. The Effects of the Climate on Zoo Animals
c. Creating Vegetation in the Zoos
d. Zoos: Becoming More Like Natural Habitats

6. In line 51, “induce” is closest in meaning to

a. imitate.
b. motivate.
c. modify.
d. analyze.

7. How did they manage to make the white rhino reproduce?

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8. According to paragraph 5,
a. some animal species never mate during the day.
b. all animal species in zoos need more place to reproduce.
c. attempts to make animals breed have been fruitful.
d. animals have better offsprings when they have more choice.

9. Why was the species-survival program designed?

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 10. Explain what the author means when she says in lines 77-78, “… zoos will become
little more than Noah’s arks…” ?
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11. According to paragraph 7, one aim of the zoos is

a. raising the awareness of the people about animals in the wild.
b. increasing the number of animals in their natural habitat.
c. informing people about the eating habits of animals.
d. trying to satisfy people by designing the zoos as people want.

12. What is the main idea of paragraph 8?

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13. The purpose of this text is to

a. propose solutions to save endangered animals.
b. questioning the new zoos about how effective they are.
c. discuss the different kinds of zoos and their purposes.
d. criticize the old zoos for not protecting animals enough.

TOPICS FOR TODAY CHAPTER 11

EXTRA VOCABULARY PRACTICE

EXERCISE 1

Match the words with their definitions.

WORD DEFINITION
1. Idle a. the opinion that people in general have about someone or
something, or how much respect or admiration someone or
2. Nature something receives, based on past behaviour or character
3. Inherent b. to build something or put together different parts to form
something whole
4. Exhibit

5. Extend c. the possibility of harm or death to someone

6. Reputation d. to show something publicly

7. Reproduce e. all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the
features, forces and processes that happen or exist
8. Construct independently of people, such as the weather, the sea,
mountains, reproduction and growth
9. End
f. not working or being used
10. Mate

11. Capture g. to produce a copy of something, or to be copied in a production

process
12. Engage
h. existing as a natural or basic part of something
13. Danger
i. to interest someone in something and keep them thinking about
it

j. to (cause something to) reach, stretch or continue; to add to

something in order to make it bigger or longer

k. to take someone as a prisoner, or to take something into your

 possession, especially by force

l. to have sex and produce young, or to make animals do this

m. the point in space or time beyond which something no longer

exists.
EXERCISE 2

Fill in the blanks with a suitable word. Change the forms of the words.

inherit danger mate reputation reproduce engage end

nature capture (2) construct idle extend exhibit

Shaping Nature's Unnatural Homes

By Felicia R. Lee

ILLIE B. did not have a lucky start in life. In 1961, this silverback gorilla was 1.__________
in Africa and delivered to the zoo in Atlanta, where he grew fat, bored and lonely in his 20-
Wby-40-foot cage.

It took 27 years before he 2.__________ roamed outdoors again. That was when the zoo
was renovated and a newly ''3.__________'' Zoo Atlanta was created. This time it had a
space designed to resemble an African rain forest.

Willie's life story parallels the evolution of American zoos in the last 40 years and hints at the
questions about their future while growing awareness of animal rights and ecology. The now-
familiar debate about zoos - from their design to the rationale for their very existence - is
decades old. As many have observed, zoos are caught in a(n) 4.__________ contradiction:
visitors go to experience nature in unnatural places. Is there something fundamentally wrong
about using any animal for 5.__________ and entertainment, or should zoos be seen as
6.__________ of conservation efforts, much-needed protectors of vulnerable wildlife?

Most 7.__________ modern zoos around the world today subscribe to a four-fold mission of
conservation, research, education and 8.__________, but a number of new books argue that
there is still controversy over how well zoos have achieved those goals and how they should
operate in the future.

Elizabeth Hanson, a science historian, opens her forthcoming book, ''Animal Attractions:
Nature on Display in America's Zoos'', with Willie's life story. She explains that while the first
American zoo was 9.__________ in 1874, it was only in Willie's lifetime that children's zoos
and farm-in-the-zoo exhibits gained 10.__________ popularity and that zoos stopped
collecting animals in the wild and began 11.__________ them. They helped the animals to
breed in the zoo. They also began arranging displays according to animal behavior and
incorporating ideas about the ecological relationship between animals and their habitats.

By the 1970's, Ms. Hanson says, zoos began hiring full-time veterinarians and research
scientists, charging admission fees and raising money for 12.__________ breeding
programs. She notes that while Willie B. was always popular, the zoo managers were once
so 13._________ in making him feel in the wilderness that they brought trees from the rain
forests to his cage.

Most modern zoos certainly stand in contrast to the well-documented and now-familiar past
accounts of brutal animal capture and transportation from the wild to filthy, unnatural
conditions. They try to protect rare and 14.________ species with intensive care in their
zoos.