Click on "What is an endangered species?" Read the text. Choose the best definition of an endangered species.
1. An endangered species is an animal that is threatened.
2. An endangered species is an animal that is dead.
3. An endangered species is an animal that shoudn't be protected.
4. An endangered species is an animal that has lived in danger.
Choose the best definition of an extinct animal.
1. An extinct animal is an animal which is 50 years old.
2. An extinct animal is an animal that no one has seen in the wild for 50 years.
3. An extinct animal is an animal that was born 50 years ago.
4. An extinct animal is an animal that people only see every 50 years.
Click on "Which animals are in danger?". Read the text. Choose the right answer.
1. More than ten thousand species are endangered.
2. Less than ten thousand species are endangered.
3. More than ten million species are endangered.
4. Less than ten million species are endangered.
Click on "How big is the problem?" Read the text. Choose the right answer.
1. The Mekong giant catfish is threatened.
2. The Mekong giant catfish is not an endangered species.
3. The Mekong giant catfish is extinct.
4. The Mekong giant catfish will be extinct in 13 years.
Choose the right answer.
1. There are only about one thousand pandas left in the world's zoos.
2. There are only about one thousand pandas left in the wild.
3. There are only about one hundred pandas left in the wild.
4. There are only about one hundred pandas left in the world's zoos.
Choose the right answer.
1. There are as many tigers now as a hundred years ago.
2. There are more tigers now than a hundred years ago.
3. There are fewer (=less) tigers now than a hundred years ago.
4. There are more and more tigers in world.
Guess what this means, "There used to be millions of koalas in Australia."
1. In the past, there were millions of koalas in Australia but there aren't millions of koalas any more.
2. Now there are millions of koalas in Australia but there weren't millions of koalas in the past.
3. Millions of koalas die in Australia every year.
4. Millions of koalas live in Australia.
Click on "What can you do?". Read the text and choose the right answer.
1. If you want to help, you should support organisations like the World Wildlike Fund.
2. If you want to help, you should buy organisations like the World Wildlike Fund.
3. If you want to help, you shouldn't support organisations like the World Wildlike Fund.
4. If you don't want to help, you should support organisations like the World Wildlike Fund.
Click on "Is it all our fault?". Read the text and choose the right answer corresponding to "Animals have always died out naturally."
1. It's the first time that animals have died.
2. Animals don't die naturally.
3. Animals die naturally when they get old.
4. Animals shouldn't die naturally.
Dinosaurs ...
1. became extinct when they lived millions of years.
2. only became extinct after millions of years.
3. never became extinct.
4. became extinct because they lived around us.
What is the main difference now?
1. Animals are becoming extinct more slowly than in the past.
2. Animals are becoming extinct much faster than in the past.
3. Animals are becoming extinct because of humans.
4. Animals are not becoming extinct because of humans.
The problem is that ...
1. animals can adapt to the changes in the world.
2. animals can't adapt to the changes in the world.
3. animals shouldn't adapt to the changes in the world.
4. animals should adapt to the changes in the world.
The world is ...
1. changing too fast for animals to adapt.
2. not changing fast enough for animals to adapt.
3. changing too slowly for animals to adapt.
4. changing slowly and animals adapt.
Click on "What's being done?". Read the text and choose the right answer. [to ban = to forbid]
1. Hunting whales is legal.
2. Hunting whales is illegal.
3. Hunting whales is forbidden.
4. Hunting whales is not forbidden.
Choose the right answer.
1. Hunting whales was banned in 1985 but some countries still hunt them.
2. Hunting whales was banned in 1985 but countries don't hunt them any more.
3. Hunting whales was not banned in 1985 but some countries still hunt them.
4. Hunting whales was not banned in 1985 but countries don't hunt them any more.
Click on "Why are they dying out?" Read the text and choose the right answers. "Animals are dying out" means
1. they are disappearing from our planet.
2. Animals are living again.
3. Animals are old.
4. Animals are dead.
Animals are dying out ...
1. because of pollution, cutting down trees and building cities.
2. because of habitats, cutting down cities and building forests.
3. because there is not enough pollution, cutting down trees and building cities.
4. because cities pollute forests.
Choose the right answer.
1. People are to blame (they are responsible) because they kill and buy lots of animals.
2. People are to blame (they are responsible) because they sell and play with lots of animals.
3. People are not to blame (they are not responsible) because they don't kill and don't buy lots of animals.
4. People are not to blame (they are not responsible) because they protect animals.

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