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Wilder Places For Wild Things - Week 4
Wilder Places For Wild Things - Week 4
Wilder Places For Wild Things - Week 4
By Sharon Begley with Karen Springen in Chicago, Jeanne Gordon in Los Angeles, Daniel
Glick in Washington, and Howard Manley in Atlanta; Newsweek. Adapted from Topics for
Today, 3rd ed. Thomson & Heinle.
VOCABULARY
A. Vocabulary in Context
Select the letter of the answer that is closest in meaning to the bold word or
phrase.
1. Endangered monkeys at the San Diego zoo look for fruit left for them by the
zoo keepers.
a. dangerous c. unusual
b. protected d. at risk
3. Beavers at the Minnesota Zoo cut down scores of trees for food.
a. groups c. a few
b. many d. forests
4. Ann Baker says mimicking nature in zoos is the best way to help animals
return to the wild.
a. saving c. supporting
b. destroying d. imitating
5. Chimps in the wild, and in zoos, can manipulate tools, just like humans.
a. borrow c. use
b. destroy d. create
6. When rainstorms happen at the Brookfield Zoo, the monkeys scamper to
find shelter.
a. run c. look around
b. build d. cant find
8. The white rhino at the San Diego Zoo has had 55 offspring since 1996.
a. mates c. homes
b. children d. diseases
9. John Gwynne says that now zoos are celebrations of life, rather than just
menageries.
a. collection of animals c. cages
b. parks d. dangerous places
B. Vocabulary Building
Match each word in the list below with the definition on the right.
READING COMPREHENSION
3. How many acres of tropical rainforest are destroyed every minute of every
day?
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4. What three things do todays best zoo exhibits encourage animals to do?
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5. Where in Thailand did Tom Veltre record the sounds of the jungle for one
month?
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6. Why do elephants at Seattles Woodland Park Zoo like to roll and stack
logs?
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7. How many years ago did the white rhino at the San Diego Zoo move into a
larger new area of the park, and how many children has it had since then?
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9. What do zoo keepers want to public to know if the single greatest threat to
wild animals today?
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